Question:
Schizoids have a problem dealing with the bullshit 'truth' that the
corrupt corporate transnational globalized fools have enslaved us all
under. They pull this same crap with people who just want to drop acid
and enjoy shit, s, who the do they think they are? I
wonder how far their 'system' would go if they didn't have all those
guns pointed at us?
Answer:
1) Schizophrenia is a chronic, debilitating psychotic mental
disorder that affects approximately 1 percent of people. A new
generation of medications and recent developments in
neuropathology, brain imaging, and molecular genetics have led to
a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
and to improved treatment. Nonetheless, it remains an enigmatic
illness that places a substantial burden on patients, their
families, and society.
2) Schizophrenia has varied and ominous symptoms that generally
begin in late adolescence or early adulthood and usually continue
throughout life.(1) Most patients have a history of behavioral
dysfunction -- primarily social and learning difficulties.(2)
Diagnostic features of schizophrenia include auditory
hallucinations (generally voices that converse with or about the
patient) and delusions (often the paranoid belief that external
forces are conspiring against the patient). Patients may have
some insight that the voices are internal thoughts and that the
delusions cannot possibly be true, but these phenomena remain
persistent and troubling.
3) In addition to these overt psychotic (or "positive") symptoms,
various deficits (or "negative" symptoms) occur, including an
inability to pay attention, the loss of a sense of pleasure, the
loss of will or drive, disorganization or impoverishment of
thoughts and speech, flattening of affect, and social withdrawal.
Positive and negative symptoms vary in intensity over time;
patients may have predominantly one type at any particular time.
Cognitive dysfunction, including a decreased ability to focus
attention and deficiencies in short-term verbal and nonverbal
memory, is also a core feature of the illness, which predicts
vocational and social disabilities for patients.(3) Criminal
behavior per se is not a concomitant of schizophrenia, but
patients may commit violent acts in response to hallucinations or
delusions or because of frustration in social interactions.(4)
The lifetime prevalence of suicide is about 10 percent among
patients with schizophrenia.(5)
4) Schizophrenia is a uniquely human illness. Although none of us
know to what extent our perception of the world is merely a
construct of our own minds, persons with schizophrenia are
confronted with this existential dilemma throughout most of their
lives. Their struggle to decide if the voices or suspicions they
experience are real is part of their inability to discern
relevant information from their surroundings. Indeed, the
hallucinations and delusions, which initially seem mysterious,
can often be traced to misprocessed information. Persons with
schizophrenia are hypervigilant, responding to extraneous stimuli
as well as to internal thoughts that most other persons can
ignore. In addition to this deficit in sensory gating, patients
have difficulty processing information in short-term memory to
assess its significance. For example, a college student who is
becoming psychotic may report that he hears strange people who
are hiding in the walls, whispering about his appearance. This
symptom demonstrates his inability to filter out the noise of the
dormitory and his lack of the skills necessary to learn the
identity of the other students around him -- both of which
heighten his insecurity about himself.
5) The conceptualization by biomedical researchers of
schizophrenia as the manifestation of deficits in elementary
brain processes was facilitated by observations of certain drug
effects. Many drugs that cause psychoses resembling schizophrenia
(e.g., stimulants) increase dopaminergic neurotransmission. All
currently available antipsychotic drugs that alleviate symptoms
of schizophrenia decrease dopaminergic neurotransmission.
Decreased dopaminergic neurotransmission, in turn, diminishes the
distractibility that characterizes patients with schizophrenia
and improves their perceptual abilities. Patients treated with
such drugs concomitantly experience a decrease in the intensity
of their hallucinations and delusions, and the patients are
therefore better able to manage their behavior.
6) The dopamine theory of schizophrenia has several flaws,
however. First, blockade of dopaminergic neurotransmission does
not fully alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia. Second, although
positive symptoms of schizophrenia are diminished when
dopaminergic neurotransmission is decreased by antipsychotic
medications, levels of dopamine metabolites and receptors, when
measured in patients before and after treatment, are still
generally within the wide range of normal values. Third, the role
of dopamine in the brain is more complex than that of acting as a
simple switch for psychotic symptoms. During acute psychotic
episodes, many persons with schizophrenia appear to have
increased occupancy of receptors in the basal ganglia by
dopamine, as measured by the displacement of radioactive ligands
on single-photon-emission computed tomography. However, decreased
dopaminergic activity in the cerebral cortex of the frontal lobe
may also be one of the factors contributing to the cognitive
impairment commonly found in persons with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is the name of the response society gives to certain
experiences.
It has nothing to do with individuals. Schizoids have a problem dealing with the bullshit 'truth' that the
corrupt corporate transnational globalized fools have enslaved us all
under. They pull this same crap with people who just want to drop acid
and enjoy shit, s, who the do they think they are? I
wonder how far their 'system' would go if they didn't have all those
guns pointed at us? Maybe schizos ae in one of them 'parallel universes' everyone is
talking about? I wonder why 'they' can give them drugs yet I am not
free to experiment on myself, s.
ing corpo-capitalists, just want to ruin and control everyones
individual experience here on planet earth, what gives 'them' the
'right', s. Just want only 'their' reality accepted, what
selfish s, and they give all these sermons about 'freedom', what
a load of crap. I want to address the entire nation for 30 minutes,
also thinking about changing my name to 'The Ranter'?
I actually had a very good friend go schizoid on me, he was 'weird' to
begn with, some little 'slips' here and there, but, I do think the
drugs, pot and acid, probably did him in. Know when he freaked-out, on
a drop, he was Airborn, that was the end of him as a 'real' person.
Haven't seen him in about twenty years, would like to though, it would
give me more understanding of the situation.
I look at it this way, you know when you see someone you haven't seen
in twenty years, you can really see the aging processs, well, the way I
see it, same with the cognitive process as well, I would like to see
what the 'medication' really has done. I read people like books.
If you were trapped in a room full of schizophrenics for a length of time
you would think their criticality is normal?
