Philosophy good or bad?

Does existential thinking (if you enjoy it) aggravate your symptoms or help you think more clearly about the world?

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I think philosophy is good, I like it, gives you a foundation to view the world

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It’s a sign I’m getting worse when I start thinking about the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

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Objectivism’s central tenets are that realityexists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see Direct and indirect realism ), that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic,

If i start overthinking or thinking too much about my existence in philosophical terms, then I think it’s bad for psychosis.

I have a degree in Philosophy too and I haven’t been able to think about philosophical stuff all too deeply.

Philosophy raises more questions than it answers. It’s ok as long as you don’t take it too seriously, otherwise it will drive you nuts. Better focus on sports, arts or exact sciences. Basically anything else.

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I have a BA in philosophy. I love the topic dearly but I have to avoid certain topics, like metaphysics. I actually had my first full blown psychosis while I was taking some heavy courses and I could not stop thinking about the topics.

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I enjoy looking at problems from all different philosophical viewpoints.

I’m unsure how much good it does me though. I frequently go around in circles in my own mind. Ha!

I second what @Andrey wrote though in regards to it’s probably good not to take philosophy too seriously.

Just remember that philosophy isn’t quite an exact science, like physics for example.

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I love talking philosophy and existentialism. If we could successfully separate it from religion maybe we could have some interesting conversations about it here. It probably tends to elicit religious replies though.

There is more to philosophy than existentialism

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I studied some philosophy in college, did well, enjoyed it. No big deal.

When I had my psychotic break, I became very interested in philosophy and started studying it. I remember reading Aristotle’s Metaphysics and understanding the whole thing. Well, that’s what I thought at the time. I tried to read it later when I was no longer in psychosis and could barely make heads or tails of it.

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Philosophy is how I got here. In fact, I took advantage during my recent stint at hospital to revisit Descartes and Malebranche, among others. My “delusional self” firmly believes that a dream I had a few years back, where the devil shared with me some philosphical insights I treasure to this day, was an authentic experience

A person could extrapolate abstractions till infinity; it doesn’t make them applicable. Everything in moderation even moderation.

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