Laura Castillo6 said:The Crazy part starts in its early stages, where it links up with psychosis. Psychosis is basically a mental state where your perception of the world gets warped, and you lose touch with reality to the point where you can't even grasp what's happening to you. Even though we have User123 here claiming they actually realized something was wrong while in a psychotic state and managed to get themselves to the hospital—which is one incredible, rare case.
There isn't anything inherently positive about this illness, just like any other. It's possible for the brain to slip into psychosis and never quite find its way back. It happened to Albert Einstein's son. What happens during that psychosis is that the neurotransmitters go into total chaos; dopamine levels just go wild. A person might experience intense euphoria. They could have sexual hallucinations, or feel like they are God, or the owner of everything—these can be incredibly "positive" or "good" feelings. It's almost like a heavy drug; in some remote parts of Asia, falling into psychosis is practically a life goal. Maybe those feelings are seen as an advantage, and perhaps the "benefit" of the illness is that the vast majority of the population will never ever feel those sensations.
On the flip side, you have the dark stuff: the feeling of being persecuted, the fear that someone is going to kill you, sharp voices, hallucinations involving smell or sound, and that overwhelming sense that evil is everywhere around you. This often drives people to hurt themselves or others. Usually, if there's timely hospitalization, nothing tragic happens, but a person in a psychotic state has a huge tendency toward self-harm, mostly because they simply can't control themselves anymore.
You could actually use that concept of psychosis as an argument that animals on this planet don't really control their own brains. It comes down to how the brain functions. But that same psychosis is proof that the brain is an evolutionary organ. Its operation depends entirely on external factors and genetics.
Furthermore, schizophrenia later manifests as a byproduct of that psychosis through extreme mood swings—mania and depression. You also get anxiety, deep distress, and constant fears about life, the illness itself, or things an average person wouldn't give a second thought to.
That's why this is such a tough illness to deal with. Because the symptoms cover such a wide spectrum, if a doctor actually found a specific medication for every single symptom, a patient might end up taking two different pills in a single day. And often, you have to take secondary medications just to dull the side effects of the first ones.
Then again, while there are various drugs available for this intense condition, the darker side of life includes those rare diagnoses where medicine still hasn't found any answers at all, let alone a cure or even a way to soothe the symptoms.
I mean, maybe you can tell them apart if you really dig deep—like, is it just a total delusion or full-blown delirium? Hard to say sometimes.
Most of those psychoses might just be exactly that.
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A person can get caught up in this massive wave of euphoria—I’m talking full-on sexual hallucinations, or thinking you actually *are* God, or like you own the entire world. You just get hit by these intense, "positive" rushes that feel incredibly good. It’s almost like being hooked on some heavy-duty drug; in certain remote parts of Asia, falling into a psychosis like that becomes a literal survival instinct. But then you have to wonder... maybe those feelings are actually an edge? Maybe there's an advantage to the illness, in the sense that most people walking around out there will never experience anything even remotely close to that.
Honestly, there’s just no way to put it into words. It's one of those feelings that defies description—you know what I mean? Just... unexplainable.
I used to just call that "brain fog"—you know, that total mental static where nothing quite clicks. Um.
Honestly, there’s just no stopping it—ideas, thoughts, whatever you want to call them—they just keep flooding in constantly. It's like a non-stop stream. One minute everything is quiet, and the next, my brain is just firing on all cylinders. Ideas come, ideas go... it’s a bit much sometimes, really.
It’s like... hyper-hyperactivity. Just constant.
Look, I never went around thinking I was God or anything—but I definitely wouldn't mind being pretty much anything else.
I’ve had them both—twice, actually. First, it was just pure delirium, then it shifted right into full-blown delusion.
The second time around, it’s just straight-up psychosis.
It’s hard to really get this across—honestly, you probably couldn't explain it even if you tried. It’s one of those things that just needs to be a face-to-face conversation.
Laura Castillo6 said:The Crazy part starts in its early stages, where it links up with psychosis. Psychosis is basically a mental state where your perception of the world gets warped, and you lose touch with reality to the point where you can't even grasp what's happening to you. Even though we have User123 here claiming they actually realized something was wrong while in a psychotic state and managed to get themselves to the hospital—which is one incredible, rare case.
There isn't anything inherently positive about this illness, just like any other. It's possible for the brain to slip into psychosis and never quite find its way back. It happened to Albert Einstein's son. What happens during that psychosis is that the neurotransmitters go into total chaos; dopamine levels just go wild. A person might experience intense euphoria. They could have sexual hallucinations, or feel like they are God, or the owner of everything—these can be incredibly "positive" or "good" feelings. It's almost like a heavy drug; in some remote parts of Asia, falling into psychosis is practically a life goal. Maybe those feelings are seen as an advantage, and perhaps the "benefit" of the illness is that the vast majority of the population will never ever feel those sensations.
On the flip side, you have the dark stuff: the feeling of being persecuted, the fear that someone is going to kill you, sharp voices, hallucinations involving smell or sound, and that overwhelming sense that evil is everywhere around you. This often drives people to hurt themselves or others. Usually, if there's timely hospitalization, nothing tragic happens, but a person in a psychotic state has a huge tendency toward self-harm, mostly because they simply can't control themselves anymore.
You could actually use that concept of psychosis as an argument that animals on this planet don't really control their own brains. It comes down to how the brain functions. But that same psychosis is proof that the brain is an evolutionary organ. Its operation depends entirely on external factors and genetics.
Furthermore, schizophrenia later manifests as a byproduct of that psychosis through extreme mood swings—mania and depression. You also get anxiety, deep distress, and constant fears about life, the illness itself, or things an average person wouldn't give a second thought to.
That's why this is such a tough illness to deal with. Because the symptoms cover such a wide spectrum, if a doctor actually found a specific medication for every single symptom, a patient might end up taking two different pills in a single day. And often, you have to take secondary medications just to dull the side effects of the first ones.
Then again, while there are various drugs available for this intense condition, the darker side of life includes those rare diagnoses where medicine still hasn't found any answers at all, let alone a cure or even a way to soothe the symptoms.
Look, just to be clear—I haven't dealt with any of that stuff you mentioned. None of it.
It’s neither a persecution nor a hallucination.
God, I really screwed the pooch on this one.
I made it through, by the grace of God.