I think why some people with schizophrenia aren’t exactly as talented or intelligent as their family members; it’s due to our flight or fight response. We are very, very prone to react negativity to our delusional beliefs, hallucinations, catatonia, and the lost goes on.
However, the frontal lobe is more active during learning, but our flight and fight is extremely active, so we don’t create or learn as much as other without this.
I don’t know, maybe my viewpoint is skewed, so please feel to say what you think is going in the article.
Personally I am not prone to reacting negatively to delusions or hallucinations. My issue is reacting positively to it and then getting dragged into it again and again thinking if thats possible then something else must be possible and so on.
I think theres a filter missing in our brain that prevents the going into madness part.
Perception issues and stuff.
I might also be missing a bit of the fear genes. Lol
A funny example. Im walking in a forest park and its getting dark and theres some unmarked trail with a fence that says not to go in there and im immediately like hey lets go check out whats in there
My partner says theres something in my brain that sees danger and goes “lets explore it” lol. Like when someone tells you not to press the red button, well now i must press it.
That’s interesting, @LevelJ1 I heard a story about from my therapist that theres this schizophrenic who only have positive delusions and hallucinations. They didn’t want to treat him because he was living his high life lol.
Yeah i think ive only had 1 scary episode which was in 2011.
The rest were fascinating, bizarre, euphoric, constructive, destructive etc. But it eventually becomes so bizarre i become quite dysfunctional.
If only my brain just went back to normal after an episode instead of hibernation mode
Yeah, I wish I had a healthy brain, but each time I get another episode( I’ve lost track in seven years) my brain, like you said, went into hibernation. It’s interesting, how long someone can go without medication and they turn into a paranoid vegetable.
I have creative or artsy relatives. I never got into art but tried STEM and failed. I feel dumb, but was told I’m smart in certain areas. I really don’t know where I stand in my intelligence. I think it’s hit or miss.
The worst part of my psychosis was doubting I and reality was real or existed and wasn’t just my imagination or a hallucination. I lost touch of physical reality. It felt like dissociation and I was holding on to my sanity.
