[Desoxyn]

I was looking up "Schizophrenia and sense of humor" and I saw a quora question saying "How do I get schizophrenia?" which was quite absurd so I clicked on it and the response was someone that said;

"You can get schizophrenia.

Ok…. let me get into my dark lab and tell you how we do it around here…

First of all, schizophrenia has probably more to do with the neocortex part of the brain and less with the limbic system or the reptilian complex. Chances are people who had schizophrenia had a more advanced brain to start with.

So to get schizophrenia you need to have:

A more intelligent brain in some respects
A genetic predisposition to that illness
A certain type of mental adjustment which triggers the illness
Now let’s define some important concepts:

Homeostasis

“Homeostasis” is a characteristic unique to living beings. In simple words, it means that a person adjusts to their environment. And by adjusting, we mean a change in the way it functions. And it is a reasonable assumption to make that the purpose of that function is to ensure survival.

The age when schizophrenia develops

Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions usually start between ages 16 and 30. What a coincidence. Those are key stages of the development of personality.

The symptoms of schizophrenia & the interesting link to personality

A common symptom of schizophrenia, not officially described as such, is confusing persons - such as watching a person talk on TV and thinking they talk to you personally. Or hearing voices in your head - again as if a person is there.

Another symptom is disorganized speech and disorganized thinking. That is basically, talking or thinking inconsistently, and without connecting meanings appropriately, and without arriving at any terminating conclusion. What could be missing? I smell personalization again.

Patients with schizophrenia also show impaired emotional and social behavior, such as lack of theory of mind and misinterpretation of social situations. Impaired emotional behaviour - let’s skip that for the moment - it has been overly medically discussed already. But theory of mind and social behaviour do seem to relate to personality again. Socializing is all about personality.

Long story short, I have already made up my mind - I think the root of development of schizophrenia is a problem of personality. I was just writing the previous to get there.

So how to reproduce schizophrenia?

Given that you fulfill conditions 1 & 2, all that is needed is to create condition 3. And how do you create condition 3?

As it seems, the trigger is a change in personality, which would be caused due to homeostasis. Simply put, you would have to force someone to develop a personality that is damaging to themselves.

What kind of personality do we need? A very misaligned one: One that is not self-serving, not self-directed, not self-controlling.

How do you obtain it? Simple… through homeostasis - place a person in an environment with other people who themselves have a personality type that would induce this type of personality to the subject. An environment controlled by someone who forces others to be so: in other words, an environment rigidly controlled by someone with another personality disorder with almost the opposite characteristics.

So all we need to create condition 3 is:

Put the subject in an environment with a narcissist, a psychopath, a sociopath.
Let that person take all control away from the subject.
Give “homeostasis” enough time to do its work.
And voila…

We have just produced a schizophrenic!"

So yeah I have long believed that my narcissistic step dad abusing me caused my positive symptoms when I was 16. Also he abuse from teachers in middle school caused my negative symptoms when I was 12.

[Sometimes psychotic]

It’s interesting you talk about personality change....for me someone told me to smile more when I was presenting a big lecture at a national meeting. I think this was my tripping point I tried to be someone I wasn’t and it was too much pressure. Within the week I had psychosis.

If I even showed a furrow brow, I would be criticized from my professors. All of them wanted me to see their version of truth, if I showed any sign of not accepting the entirety of their version of the truth I would get demarcation. In that environment it occurred.

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by Day Tripper

If I even showed a furrow brow, I would be criticized from my professors. All of them wanted me to see their version of truth, if I showed any sign of not accepting the entirety of their version of the truth I would get demarcation. In that environment it occurred.

Professors can be so judgmental...hugs DT