So its the horrors we see that causes it.
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That’s the most logical thing I’ve heard all year.
We get frenzied when our insight is too high
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As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me.
So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them "thinking" it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that's what is required to be schizophrenic.
Yeah, kinda. To explain it very simplified, you have a thinking brain, and an emotional brain, for example you are not either of these things, you are (we are all) observing those brain processes. Your thinking brain is designed to churn away, and similarly your emotional brain. In my interpretation, some people's parts are just louder and more vibrant. Which can have pros and cons, it's way more manageable if it's not so loud it's domineering. Having a thinking brain, that's essentially grown and formed by all of the input, until now, churning away loudly, isn't really a description of schizophrenia. It's more, a depth of perception of reality, both based on internal and external perceptions. This article is talking about the relationship between the ocular reception, as interpreted by the brain, though, so not really the thinking brain, or emotional brain.
I have bipolar and it feels like my brain just tosses things at me. I get some really good ideas and I am quick with jokes because i don't even think, my brain is an absurdity machine.
Do you have aphantasia?
I feel like people with aphantasia are less likely to be bipolar because we do not play emotional memories with images.
From my understanding people can change their moods thinking of a beach? Like "Imagine yourself on a beach" and it could make a non-aphant more relaxed and calm?
I feel like my emotions are pure in the moment. Yes I could recall an event that gave me an emotion but it's nothing like experiencing it in the moment.
Interesting, though no, I have no trouble with mental imagery.
Trouble as in poor quality or too many mental images?
You feel your mood shift the most with new mental images?
Maybe the blind schizophrenics just don't ever know.
If they are hearing hallucinations, how would they know they aren't real? It's not like they can see that there's nobody saying these things.
Schizophrenia produces many symptoms other than hallucinations and causes profound cognitive and social dysfunction. Poverty of thought, delusions, and disordered thinking and speech among others. There would be signs others could see.
The sighted schizophrenics don't know their hallucinations aren't real. It's always an external diagnosis.
Not for everyone, I know my hallucinations aren't real, and sought out help myself.
I'm happy that you sought help, and I hope you're doing well
Right, I should have known better than to use "always" there. "Often" would have been safer. The point was that the number of senses you have don't matter much, as the brain is plenty capable of building a full hallucinated experience with whatever senses you're used to using.
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dude they're blind, not stupid.
schizophrenics often can't tell easily by themselves that they are schizophrenics, if a blind person comments about hearing things others might simply write it off as their (the blind one's) acute and great sense of hearing that the blind developed through necessity that they (others non blind) don't have and thus can't hear
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If you know you're alone at home and then hear voices, that might be one way. There are ways to distinguish the presence of people beyond sight.
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Blindness is much more than total blindness, which only describes a minority of blind people. There are different definitions, but the World Health Organization puts the definition as less than 3/60 or a visual field of less than 10 degrees in the better-seeing eye. That basically means that if you need to be more than 20 times closer to an object to be able to see the same level of detail, or you have almost no peripheral vision, you qualify.
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They also can learn to echolocate to the point the vision area of the brain process it.
When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.
I mean, she's a music teacher so she probably recognized the voices.
I read the anecdote as identifying location of any horseplay-related sound, not just voices.
Exactly. Voices would have been easy to identify. This lady could pinpoint the source of random noises with an incredible degree of accuracy.
I remember long ago, watching a show where a blind teenage boy used echolocation to skateboard around. I thought it was the coolest thing.
Now That’s Incredible! (tm)
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So that's where they got the idea for Toph. Its a real thing! Huh the more you know
Wow, that is wild!
Cool! Maybe schizophrenia is when the visual cortex gets leaky and starts interpreting thoughts as sighs.
Relared to synesthesia, perhaps?
You somehow forgot a whole word in the title.
Hehe and somehow you are the only person to let me know. Maybe everyone else missed it too. Thanks
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