What do you think? Do you relate?
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Here they also call schizophrenia a ‘psychotic vulnerability’.
I view it as a vulnerability for things that other people don’t experience.
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Yes I relate, @Moon .
I’ve also noted a vast majority of sz sufferers also experience some kind of self-reported sexual dysfunction: hyper/hypo-sexuality, compulsive masturbation, regretting one’s orientation etc.
There are theories connecting the self and sexuality.
They tend to develop together, undergoing a number of stages.
Maybe part of the answer lies there?
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I don’t relate at all. The only weird aspect to my sense of self is that it’s generally faded due to meager social interactions and goals and mirrored by my subconscious which shares aspects of my own identity but I don’t think that’s got anything directly to do with Schizophrenia except for the fact that having to deal with it brought me and my subconscious into deeper contact.
I think schizophrenia is primarily a realization disorder which leverages the same pathways normally used to create healthy synesthesias in unhealthy ways, like creating voices out of ambient noise. The delusional component seems to me to happen because the way in which we store and process meaning shares a synesthetic component with language. That seems to get leveraged inadvertently and twisted into aligning more with linguistic formalization and common use, in turn creating an imbalance in its normal handling of probabilities which would otherwise be leagues better than our primitive use of language.
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