Message from @Diadact
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@Diadact that's a very interesting read, hope she takes medication now
I wonder how much schizophrenias hallucinations are formed around our own knowledge
she later describes it takes the form of what you believe
I bet people from different cultures hallucinate different things
she said they have 3 things in common always
it's some sort of authority figure, only you can see and hear them, and they have superhuman powers
She said someone might see Jesus in the place of the alien, or Satan
You're right in your assumption it's based around culture
its an interesting book, but can be hard to read, due to her mental state the way she firms sentences are strange
*forms
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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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
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