Your thoughts about the origin of psychotic ilnesses

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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Something to do with the brain and environment factors

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better again who was the first mad person?

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I’ve read that it’s a brain disorder. It definitely is since medication that alters brain chemistry improves symptoms.

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Psychosis is biochemical
It’s a brain disorder

Whether it’s schizophrenia or bipolar, they are biochemical in nature

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I believe it’s a brain disorder. I have SzA (bipolar type).

I have it because of genetics. My mom, my sister, and one brother (out of two) all take antipsychotics. My mom is diagnosed with schizoaffective, my sister is diagnosed bipolar 1 with psychosis, and I don’t know what my brother’s diagnosis is, but he has told me what meds he takes (which include an antipsychotic drug).

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I got a heavy punch in the head that knocked me down, than the guy did not stop and said it will kill me. The guy called the cops and I got a fine, and that prank ass got away. For me it was a trauma that happend in 2018, and made me very upset for beeing treated unfair even by cops. I got diagnosed with mania sz this year and it’s tough. Ever since cops harresed me and gave me tickets after tickets. Low i come so bad food hence chemical imbalances as well.
Personally I think is a cumulative factors phisical and chemical trauma and imbalances.

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I think genetically there are normal variations in humans that cause some people to percieve more saliency/patterns. I think the possibility for psychosis arises as a side effect of our ability to think symbolically and use language, which itself a product of having a shared, cultural intersubjective world. I have a lot of thoughts on this and hope to read up on these things.

I think in a lot of cases trauma compounds it to bring about “pathological” symptoms. I have always been funny in the head, but not in a way I dislike. If I lived in a different time or culture I think I would have fit a cultural role appropriate to that. Trauma kind of broke everything though and has made the funniness more threatening and disabling.

I think it is partly genetic though as one of my parents is Sz and I am a lot like them.

I know for other people though Sz is not caused by trauma at all nor do they have Sz parents.

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