Interesting, she talks about feeling like nobody can help her, but it never seems like she entertains the idea that none of what she's seeing is real. Or maybe knowing that is meaningless?

or maybe schizophrenia also impacts the ability to make that kind of determination

She understands it's not real. In the book she has a conversation with her doctor and he tells her it's good she understands that's it's all in her head

the problem though is that she says even if she realizes it's not real that doesn't make it go away, in fact they get anger and violent if she tells them their not real

She eventually got better after 20 years of it, and was able to live a normal life

She said that her mind eventually created another being that's sole purpose was to stitch her back together again

I think it's so interesting that after 20 years the mind realized the only way to fix oneself was to create another character to help her

that's incredibly fascinating

She said this character would refer to himself as a figment of her imagination and was there to help her

hypothetically, does that mean she could have stopped it all at the start by believing she could?

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i did like three more lol

Becuase it sounds like she basically tricked her brain into thinking normally

Possibly, she said she knew all long what the fix was, but she said the other half of her brain had to "figure it out on its own"

really interesting how the human mind is so intelligent it can come up with that kind of solution subconsciously

@PugThug awesome, post em here my guy

Certainly goes to show how much of reality is based on our perception of it rather than something objective

Can you imagine being held prisoner by your own mind for 20 years like that?

and then after all that time of not trusting your hallucinations, having to learn to trust one of them to fix herself

the human mind is a hell of a thing

I can understand persistant hallucinations, but the whole "threating you" bit I have trouble with

How can something that can't interact with anything else be a threat

i hope its not too big lol

She said that, like in the case of the "man of mars", where he shows super human like powers like being invisible, being able to read her thoughts, ect, that killing her didn't seem to far outside of his power

also she mentions that it takes part if your ability to reason rationally

Sure, but if you know it's a hallucination, then of course it could read thoughts or go invisible, it's a projection by your brain

yea it is lemme upload it to my yt real quick

It can do anything *except* actually hurt you

Right, which is why she says by the time you realize it's all in your head, you're already in a straight jacket and in a bird's nest

Plus, why would an alien/demon/angel pick you to follow around

Again, the man said that he randomly chose you out of all humans, and you are not special

Your average timmy is too busy sucking air to actually matter <:smugpepe:619749634402942998>

she had a really advanced case of it though. No amount of shock therapy, or medication helped her at all

Seems weird though right? Why would they choose a random person? They can go invisible and read your thoughts but can't come up with a better way of information gathering than following timmy around all day?

logically most schizo shit doesnt make sense

Right, looking at the situation it seems obvious

which is why it isnt hard to tell when someone is crazy

but I'm sure it doesn't seem that way to them

The invasion of earth is not going to go well for the martians if timmy is their main source of info

Haha