Schizophrenia Theory: The split between thinking and feeling

Disclaimer: This theory is the result of personal experience with schizophrenia by the author and not necessarily applicable to every individuals with schizophrenia.

Our five senses are connected to our feelings, of course.
The five senses, or feelings, is in touch with the reality, such as daily activities.

However, the thinking of the schizophrenic is disconnected from the feelings.
Moreover, since the sufferer lives in his own thinking, it is like he is constantly in dreaming state. Overly focus on thinking or dream resulting in positive symptoms, something that normal persons do not have, and at the same time, disconnecting from reality or five senses resulting in negative symptoms, something that normal persons would have with motivation and interest in daily activities.

Why then the thinking escapes from the feeling? I guess it is because the uneasy feelings, such as the bullying.
It is then considered the body’s defense mechanism to disconnect the thinking from the feeling, to reduce the painful experience.

I don’t agree with this… In my psychotic break feelings rulled over thought, and thought was connected to intense feelings. I don’t feel now, medicated, that I don’t have feelings, I’m a rollercoaster of feelings all day long.

The negative symptoms make us think we don’t have feelings but we do, we just don’t show them very well.

Yes. I do. Looks like it’s working fine.

Yes, I saw it…

I had to take down the quoting… weird software today. It’s drunk, I tell you!

It is not a perfect theory, but at least I have something to begin with.

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If it suits you… Have a happy new year Plumber! I’m going to clean now…

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Technically, all psychotic thinking is UNrepresentative of what is sensed (or felt). The following psychotherapies help to reconnect intellect to sensory experience:

MBCT - Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice - PubMed
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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