How did schizophrenics live in the past before the modern era, in ancient times and the middle ages?
This guy told me that in the past the just told them to go and live in the forest. If you make it its fine If you don’t tough luck. Do you think some were prophets or shamans? Idk. Sometimes I wish I lived in the past maybe I would feel better and live in nature or something with full blown psychosis.
They would torture them and throw rocks at them to take out evil spirits. Thats what I read online.
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Thats sad, but what do you think about prophets, If we look at it form a naturalistic point of view the might have had some sort of psychosis or what do you think?
Well prophets arent mentally ill, they’re legit. Schizophrenics cant do legit miracles, they just think they can do it.
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But from a naturalistic point of view thats impossible.
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Personally I try to not think about religion and politics as they trigger me. My mother wanted to exorcise me the other day, it scared the sh!t out of me.
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And I think the way schizophrenia is treated today is a naturalistic scientific way. An atheist would say that prophets are mentally ill. I dont think this way but thats what they would say.
A sorry if I trigger you im just fascinated by this
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I tried to kill myself twice to prove to myself and to the world that I am Jesus. Turns out that I am not Jesus as I ended up twice in the emergency, once for liver intoxication (intentional overdose) and the second from an intentional car accident at 200kmh.
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Yeah, sorry to hear that. I thought there were aliens telepathically feeding on our sexual energy. I even saw 3 space ships.
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probably not well. look at joan of arc.
things have gotten better but the germans during ww2 tried getting rid of us and that wasn’t that long ago.
im glad i live in 21st century america. although sometimes i have fears and stuff because of my delusions like ‘vampires, aliens, immortality, time travel, parallel universes, and spirit world stuff’. i even thought i was a warlock at one time years back because of one delusion and dream.
my fear is some of us gifted schizophrenics being experimented on because we can legitimately access higher dimensions in physics.
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I have to read more about Joan of arc. What was her thing? Yes and the Nazis wanted to gas us, that’s true
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Depends on the culture and the time. Some American Indian tribes treated them as special prophets. Other cultures killed them.
At the turn of the century in either America or England, the mentally ill were chained to walls or put in small cages and the asylums had tours through them so people could gawk and stare at them like the afflicted were animals in a museum. Medications that treat the mentally ill are relatively recent in human history. As recently as the 1950’s schizophrenics were just warehoused in back wards in insane asylums, forgotten and untreated for twenty or thirty years.
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That’s happened to me too when I was 15. My delusions started that time and the voices too. I had severe anxiety as well.
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I tried to kill myself by cutting into my vein to try and find an artery, I got two drops of blood from the cuts ends and nothing else, that was the only blood. I tried to od on my sleeping meds and when i went to the hospital the next day they said they couldn’t find any traces of drugs. I’ve thought about crashing my car full speed but I’ll probably survive and live as a potato and make things worse…
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No. I think most of them were dead meat.
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Yeah I don’t buy that it was empowering. Most folk who were problems ended up in the asylums without any real treatment. What they did to people was disgusting. Joan of Arc may have been a rarity but there’s a big stretch from sz to mystic in my books. I tend to agree with @shutterbug
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My mom talked about exorcising me when I was a teenager. I thought I was a demon
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Yes and I learned she got burned at the stake when she was 19
There was a French philosopher who wrote a book about mental illness in the past. I forget who though. He was gay if that helps. Only thing I remember about him.
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