So I posted a Catch 22s in schizophrenia in DX that is still unlocked, but I wanted to do a paradoxes version.
As I said in the other one, catch 22s are a situation where you are “damned if you do or damned if you dont”. I made a list of some of these unfortunate traps that schizophrenia causes.
But there are also catch 22 paradoxes. The paradox is that if there is a requirement for something that makes you something, by satisfying that requirement by admitting it you are not that thing. It’s a wierd one, almost like the truth will set you free, when the truth is you’re guilty.
Here are a few from schizophrenia:
If you question your thinking you have insight and are not in a detached state, but you are questioning your sanity for a reason no?
If you speak fluently to the psychiatrist you do not have alogia, but you tell him clearly you have trouble talking.
You have to take medicine for psychosis but to do so you have to go to the dr, but in psychosis a person will not go to a dr. Therefore a person who seeks medical treatment for psychosis may not get it.
If a person thinks they are psychotic and a psychotic person is detached from reality, one therefore cannot be sure of own psychosis.