I really do appreciate the freedom of speech that is being granted to me on here in keeping with the idea that there is a natural order to the ebb and flow. However I keep worrying that I am spreading my own mental illness on to others making a mess of things, my intention is to stop the corruption, and I appreciate that your advice is to ignore off topic posts, but sometimes a corrective contradiction is necessary in mathematics in order to reach the truth. As I have said, I have infosomatosis, my own diagnosis, I understand there is no consensus of how to treat it, and that is problematic. I don’t want to hijack the forum, can a mod suggest which topics I should stick to and which I should avoid?
What a Strange Question…,
Are You Taking Your Meds (???)… . …
I would suggest creating your own thread, as @anon40653964 did, and posting your off topic thoughts in there.
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I agree with @Ninjastar , keep it in one thread. I have also wanted to question if you were taking meds as you seem a bit out there, no offense meant.
You do seem to have some degree of insight though which is good.
My legendary “Om’s madhouse” where I was expressing myself, got locked after 6 or more threads.
Thanks ninjastar, I’ll bear that in mind, it is a good idea. What I want to do is stay focused on recovering from my condition which is why this forum is good. The off topic posts are more to do with what I think is required by others, which is very arrogant of me. I used to be on another forum and eventually got booted off for doing the same thing. I think I could go back to it now, but to be honest, I think it would only trigger me again. Not everything revolves around me, but at least schizophrenia.com deals with the issue of schizophrenia, not politics. I might change my mind though, do people think I am capable of rational political discussion?
Political discussions aren’t allowed on this site, but if you wanted to do that at another site, feel free. I personally wouldn’t want to, because politics can be very triggering for me.
I think the forum has got very political recently and it’s probably my fault, so much of my delusions revolve around politics. When I first joined there were lots of people with genuine symptoms, they all seem to have left now. I mentioned R.D. Lang who thought that mental illness was the fault of society, and thus a political issue. That is certainly true, but it is also a medical issue, the problem for me is that medicine has its politics too, which medication to use, which theory of the mind to use. I mentioned that so called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) didn’t recognise the brain as an organ, the various faculties of the mind are distributed over the complex dynamical system of the various organs in the body such as the liver, lungs and heart. In other systems dating before the advent of modern Western medicine, the heart or the liver was considered to house the mind fully. These are all theories that have their place, and choosing the one that fits the patient requires asking the patient what they feel is wrong and being proficient in the application of the one that fits. One can only apply what one knows and if the patient feels differently, then the politics of medicine arises. I do hope people who genuinely need help, as opposed to people who just want to vent, return here, as I feel there are many people who have the ability to help others on the site. The focus has become far too narrow. Thank you.
Your mental illness is not contagious. It is… hereditary.