I just know of people who are unmedicated and they are more likely to be homeless and will get more treatment resistant and negatives and cognitives will eventually get worse too. You can’t make progress in your life. You can’t drive or work or connect to other people in a normal way. I feel like an episode is just like a hurricane that rips through whatever progress you’ve been making in life.
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My mother has schizophrenia as well and it was hell for me, my sister and my father growing up when she was off medication. People who are unmedicated with schizophrenia cause an enormous amount of disturbance to family members as well as all the other problems it causes.
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Who named our planet earth? And how long has it been passed down? Not really a rant i guess just curious…
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I hate my sense of morbid curiosity. Knowing I’m going to be triggered or enraged by what I see from the outside, I enter anyway merely to confirm that things are indeed as shitty and bad and disagreeable as I thought. I don’t even know why I do it, I just can’t help but wonder if I’m off base, but I’m hardly ever disappointed in my own ability to judge a book by its cover.
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I love GPS, but I can do without the first four commands that tell me how to get out of my sub-division.
@flameoftherhine wanted to make extra work for us today, and so this thread was born 
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My rant: I sprained my wrist, and haven’t been able to shave in two weeks. My legs are very itchy now. I hate body hair.
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I can rant on this…
Firstly, I’d like to reflect on the nature of schizophrenics to intrinsically think outside the box of social norms. It really is great to be in the company of people who just can’t let go of that perspective. It reminds me that those perspectives always have and, more importantly, always will exist. Change takes time and conviction, but before all that the idea of change must be put in place. It is indeed a confusing thing, to intrinsically think like no other does in one’s immediate life.
I want to highlight that there is a real stigmatic force, not just in the face of the mentally ill, but in the face of those who think differently. In the modern world any and all of us can be and have been challenged on the most fundamental levels of our thinking. When I say “all of us,” I mean to extend that to everyone, not just the mentally ill.
The reason “they,” as in the classical schizophrenic use of the word “they,” are so obtusely defiant to change is because “they” reflect the structure of the world, it’s a world they understand, and it’s a world in which they fit .
We on the other hand… are strongly independent and often financially unfounded. Our way of thinking does indeed run into strong internal conflicts that lead to social isolation and insanity.
I feel it’s important to reaffirm that mental illness is a set of real genetic conditions that affect ones thought processes and maintain the potential for manifestations of irregularity and psychosis.
I also want to reaffirm that environmental factors should never be overlooked and they play a strong role in the onset of psychosis. That social stigma and the real social difficulties that we run into need to be alleviated in our personal lives as an aspect of the road to gaining functionality.
The unknown irony of the situation lies in the paradox: “Did our mental illness lead us to think this way… or did our desire to think this way lead to our mental illness?”
On that note, both are true on some level. However, what’s more important is there is a way to verify our ways of thinking and find grounds for our emotional biases that make the paradox irrelevant. That is by subjecting our psychotic thinking to peer review, and fighting (the same fight as everyone) for viability and success in life. Only then can we know the validity for ourselves in any true longstanding way. It’s the same social viability that could have been established if just a few minds were to have heard out the selfish, insecure, stubborn, errant teenager to it’s ends… and from there worked out a way to ground, level, but ultimately reaffirm the “inner right” to be a divergent thinker and stand on the same idealistic psycho-emotive grounds that we can’t shake.
You mention sociopaths, and I see obsession and emotional dissatisfaction. I state that to retrospectively segway my previous divergence into the conversation.
It is hard to find emotional stability in a world that doesn’t care to validate the different who are prone to have idealistic virtues, while on the other hand there are stronger themes and alignments that serve to better support self-interest and a lack of empathy.
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Aw i thought if everyones rants were in one spot it may be easier… lol instead they multiplied…
You may need more moderators… meta af… lol
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Back the primary subject matter, the sociopath.
It’s as dismissive as and other slanderous term to think the entire nature of someone can be summed up with one word. It allows to much of a handle and is often carried by fear, loathing, and disdain than by praise or a desire to cooperate.
What I’m saying is that sociopaths are just as permanent in the human schema as the altruistic, and no, by definition the sociopath is the difficult one who by there very nature will stand against any reason or need to get along.
The only real way to curb sociopathy is to live a life that allows you to lead by example. In that exemplary life there should be no traces of sociopathic tendencies. You should not waste time in criticizing that sociopath are out there in obscured numbers.
You should instead only focus on another orientation:
“What can I do to make the world seem less sociopathic… or what can I do to make the world less sociopathic when the sums come to total?”
… and for sake of personal health “What can I do to make myself less sensitive and stuck on the fact that sociopaths exist?”
To challenge a sociopath is to submit to them. You raised the challenge, therefore you are fighting an uphill battle. The self-defense of the sociopath is so unbreakably simple… and at the end of all exhausting arguments they can just say “Can you blame me for looking out for myself first?”
You step into their court they have all the home field advantage in the world.
Beyond that it’s realizing that sociopaths are mythologized. It’s an absolute statement about a system that is very complicated and adaptable.
Bottom line, you want the world to be filled with more mutual concern, show nothing but concern for it, emotionally wise depersonalized concern… and then respect and reward it when it reflects it back onto you. Beyond all boundaries.
We should be forming a new school of thought to help us deal with our future social challenges and our own intolerance for those that are different… than continuing to subject ourselves to that imaginary uphill battle.
You’ll find that most of the world is maintained by well intended adults that largely keep to themselves and don’t make as much noise as the perpetually confused youth that is just trying to prove its own worth and placement.
Perhaps those adults do have high standards, but that should only be seen as a sign that they are fed up with that ■■■■ too. It’s why many of them prefer to not even talk about it.
As a metaphor… A real athiest will wholly disdain any element of life that trivializes it don’t to a spiritual debate. A real athiest would seek to exist outside of spiritual debates, because it’s his best chance at knowing the existence he would choose to have.
If you want to live in an altruistic world, then support altruism… never stop seeking wisdom or wherewithal until you have learned how to make it work. Go beyond that and it can become a shining example that stirs the contemplations you wish these deemed “sociopaths” should have.
End of rant.
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Last night I slept at 1 am and woke up at 4:30 am. I could not fall asleep so I took a shower, made tea and got to work.
So basically I have slept a total of 3-4 hours. I feel exhausted and it is 6 pm. I need to wait at least 9 pm then go to bed 
so I don’t wake up too early!
Yesterday I drank raspberry margarita and it was so freakin good. Not the alcohol part but the way it was made, so delicious 
My two fingers are still numb and I have to see a doctor soon. I freakin hate this.
I ate a little too much this week. Tomorrow I am starting a salad only dinner.
Tomorrow if I feel well, I will go to my yoga class.
Our water heater is fixed now. Feels good to have hot water all the time!
I started flossing everyday but sometimes I still skip brushing at night. It just feels like a huge task but I do brush in the mornings.
I guess I am a morning person. I love waking up and working and cleaning and listening to podcasts. I feel like I am finally learning to enjoy myself with simple things like staying home and enjoying solitude.
I will meet my friends for sushi next week.
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Someone’s mobile keeps ringing at work, or an alarm or something. It’s annoying. Grrr.
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Once i was in a theater… someone went to the bathroom left their phone in their jacket… it went off for 15 mins lol…
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That would make a good irritable bowel syndrome med commercial. 
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