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Q: Schizophrenic symptoms ?
asked by: keyboard45 on April 28th, 2009
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From the moment i wake up till i fall asleep i talk to myself in my head, i would call it my thinking voice and i cant stop it. Sometimes i cannot hear other people because i hear this voice so loudly. When i am trying to sleep this voice gets especialy loud because there are no other sounds. I have been told that i talk in my sleep and sometimes twitch. When i try to shut myself up i start chanting to myself "shutup, stop talking, your still talking, why cant you stop." and i have realised that it is impossible to stop. I dont believe this is schizophrenia. If i say to you "don't think of a cat" you would immediately think of a cat. So when i tell myself to stop talking im still talking about trying to stop talking.

My mind has drifted of that subject now

A bit about me

Im a very bright well educated 17 year old, i came out of high school with many GCSE's and am currently studying Biology, Chemistry and Psychology in College. Im very passionate about these sciences. Biology explains life, Chemistry explains the building blocks that make up everything including life and psychology tries to explain the way our mind works yet it seems to be nothing but contradiciting conclusions due to validity and reliability etc. I have been smoking cannabis heavily for the past 5 years and have tried ecstacy appprox. 6 times. I remember everything changing since i tried ecstacy.

When on ecstacy everything looks so new and interesting, one time we smoked a half ounce of armagedon (very chronic cannabis) whilst on ecstacy (MDMA or 3,4 methyldioxymethamphetamine i think) and that really f**ked me up. I started to realise that we humans are nothing but self-replicating carbon units. That we are aliens compared to other lifeforms. That there is no such thing as normal. Time is undefinable. That THC somehow has a shape complimentary to neurotransmitters in our brain. That speech and communication are just noises that we have programmed with meaning, an exchange of data, ideas and what we believe in. Then i think about why we do this. This was a trip of logic and understanding. Since then i seem to see everything so logicaly, i have realised alot about myself and the way i think, i compare myself to the way other people think.

I have realised my role in a group by comparing my self to my friends. I seem to be the smart one. My friends would be remenisin and when they forget a detail they ask me, like im a memory bank and often enough i seem to remember. I also seem to be a teacher amongst friends, when someone wonders i usualy answer e.g. Friend: " i wonder if theres life out in space" My answer: "large telescopes are searching planets in the habital region of solar systems, looking for planets that are the same distance away from a star as earth is from the sun." I never noticed that the way i communicate with friends is by teaching and i only realised this afte taking ecstacy.

Another sympton of schizophrenia is believing you are god or somehow important to this world.
There is 6.something billion people on this planet and i see through my eyes. I think of myself to be so lucky to be a lifeform on this planet, and not just that but the most inteligent lifeform: human, also of all the countries in the world, 99% of them being in poverty, i was born in england. I have money in my bank account and i dont owe anyone money, making me in the top 0.3% wealthiest of people in the world. I dont believe this was all luck. I believe there is a reason.
I believe i am something special in this universe and that i will be always. For i also believe in reincarnation. Energy is neither created or destroyed, therefore neither am I. I believe that in each of us (or maybe just me) lies a particle, similar to an electron that is our conciousness. And when you die your body breaks down, tissues break down, mollecules break down, then we are recycled though detrius feeders (check spelling) or plants taking us up as nutrients, then to be eaten by an animal, then that animal uses them nutrients to produce sperm and there i am again. I cant remember anything before i was born, most probaly because i was probaly a single celled organism with no conciosness in my past life. We encounter millions of these every second and each one contains life.

I really dont know how i got onto this subject but it feels like this writing has really flowed. Im not trying to make any points im just showing you the kind of things i think about and what may have caused this. I think too much.

Depression
This seams to have taken over my life yet i don't see it as a disease.
Life seems pointless. Life is pointless. We don't know the meaning of life and we never will (i believe the meaning of life can be explained through atom psychology, a science i have made up. Oxygen has 6 electrons in its outer shell and requires 2 more to gain a noble gas state, why does every element desire this noble gas state? <-- a question i would ask in atom psychology.) So seeing as we dont no the point to life i have proven that life is pointless. A single celled organism on the other hand does have apoint in life, it is told directly by the nucleus of the cell what to do. Step by Step. And it obeys every order. Our nucleus is slightly different though. Our brain (made up of billions of cells knowing what to do) however has freedom, choice, and the power to decide. And one amazing thing that we can do is think theoreticly. Come up with new ideas. Using energy that has always existed to come up with something new. Btw im quite skinny, energy is stored as fat, i believe i have a very active brain which obviously requires alot of energy could this be whats keeping me thin?
Someone answer this question please Razz

Does it annoy you that i keep wandering of subjects? I cant remember what thought was running through my head 5 secs ago so theres no way i can go back to a subject in this post ... forgot what i was writing about again.

I find that when im talking a thought will often pop into my head that makes me forget what i was talking about. I see thoughts as images and sound (mainly). Sound being my thinking voice. So techincally when im talking out loud i get interupted by myself talking in my head then my mind goes blank for a nanosecond and i speak out loud again, what was i just thinking about?

This thought disorder is also a sympton of schizophrenia.

I dont believe in Schizophrenia. I believe that the drugs i have taken have cause an invrease in brain activity. Thats all.
I feel gifted for some reason.
Typing this post hasnt been easy seeing as i didnt know what to write about.
I just kinda wrote.
I think that if schizophrenia does exist, that everyone has it, at least dormant in the mind until high brain activity triggers it. Then it never stops Razz (first smiley of the post thats quite rare for me i usually smiley alot.
Im starting to believe that all the symptons of schizophrenia can be justified with reasonable explanations.
Talking to ureself in your head (or thinking) is normal.
But voices in your head are called symptons of schizophrenia.
Can someone clarify the difference?

fin.
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keyboard45
replied on April 28th, 2009
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my mistake 2 smilies
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stacin25
replied on April 28th, 2009
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you are asking if you're schizophrenic, but dont believe in schizophrenia? Ok? question, does it run in you family? are you delusional? I had a nephew that was paranoid schizophrenic and he possessed many of the same characteristics that you have. When he got on meds he changed a lot... but was happier by far. unfortunately the meds made him have a lot of unpleasant side effects... so if you get a long nicely without them, maybe just seek counseling?
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keyboard45
replied on April 29th, 2009
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My mother has been through much childhood trauma and suffers from depression and anxiety and whatever else she hasnt told me. She is currently on anti-psychotics, anti-depressents, and like 12 pills a day. I have suffered from panic attacks whilst smoking weed. I would feel very paranoid around others then suddenly experience shootin pains, heart palpertations (spelling) mass confusion and i thought i was going to die (because my heart was going a bit mental)

No councseling, i don't see how talking to someone who dosn't know me could benefit, i find it hard to discuss personal matters. I have been counceled before and he asked me questions about life, at one point i said i like where i live and i love everything im doing: college, skating, leading a very chilled out lifestyle and enjoying my weed. Then when he questioned me differently i said that i would like to move to london, take my skateboarding carrer further, move away so i can make new friends who dont smoke weed so i could give up aswell and generaly live a happier life. I didn't notice that i had said these contrasting thoughts and he concluded to me "so you want to stay here because your happy with you lifestyle yet you want to move away because you ar unhappy with your life?"

Alot of the stuff i have said is true (see above post) that life is indeed pointless without a point to it, That we are aliens compared to other lifeforms. That there is no such thing as normal.

Thought disorder
Seein much logicaly and scientificly now
I dont have to think about things for long because i often get straight to the pont. If someone asks me what a word means i tend to give the simplest deffinition rather than an example and alot of jargon. Getting to the point of things very quickly means i can think about alot of things in the space of a minute. and because i get to the point so quickly i am obviously going to move onto an unrelated topic. So this isnt thought disorder, its just thinking about alot of things really fast. Which i believe to be an advantage.
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woops
replied on April 29th, 2009
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I noticed one thing thats wrong.
You said that you have the power of choice, no you don't, you have never made a choice, nothing is up to you, nothing at all, right down to "choosing what to eat" or what to wear,

simply put, you have no choice in any matter whatsoever. And ummm, that's really uncool isn't it?
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keyboard45
replied on April 29th, 2009
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You said that you have the power of choice, no you don't, you have never made a choice, nothing is up to you, nothing at all, right down to "choosing what to eat
" or what to wear,

I can agree and disagree.
Each action we take is controlled by the unconcious mind. Enviromental factors influence our behaviour from the day we were born. So techincaly each step we take and each decision we make has already been decided. However the point i was trying to make is that we (human beings) have the power to disagree with others. That we don't just take orders like the golgi aparatus in a cell, but instead we can make the orders, quite like a nucleus of a living cell. It seems that the nucleus is the control center of living things, yet it too is commanded by DNA. If my body was to consist of a single cell, my concious mind would be the nucleus and my unconscious mind would be the DNA.
I conclude that i am in control, but only half aware of it (the other half of control being unconcious.)

Another throry i have is that within us is 2 people, one controling the concious mind and the other being within the unconcious mind.

One way i would describe MDMA: What you see in front of you is reality, what you see in your mind is your imagination. Whilst on ecstacy (MDMA) these two worlds (reality and imagination) seem to collide with each other and phase togeather. The images you see in your mind are on display infront of you whilst what you see infront of you seems to be in your head. The most common experience on MDMA is noticing a change in atmosphere. For example i was sitting with some friends in a room whilst we were on ecstacy. One friend of mine named "A" was texting his girlfriend "B" how much he loved her, he found it so easy to describe his lust for her like never before and what he was saying wasn't bullsh*t, it was well justified and believable stuff. Then A's sister "C" came into the room. A told C how easily it was to express his feelings towards B whilst on ecstacy. C then commented "oh it just shows that its not her you love its these drugs then!" A and B have been togeather for over 3 years and i know that he well and truly loves her. This comment that C made had upset A and as soon as she said it all (5 friends in this room) of our smiling, gurning faces dropped into depressed mode. We noticed how C had brought A down into a depressive state and it had bought the rooms atmoshphere down. Something you wouldn't notice sober. However this is something your unconsious mind would realise. Now since ecstacy i have noticed that i am commentating alot in my head and i have a theory (another one "lol") that this commentater is infact my unconcious mind.


Disclaimer or something similar: I am not a crackpot, i have many theories but i do not believe in any of them. Like stephen hawking has said, "no matter how many times the results of experiments agree witn some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."
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keyboard45
replied on April 29th, 2009
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Anyone out there!!!
I would love replies to this topic from anyone.
One word posts or a question or a book i dont mind.
Let me hear what you have to say Smile
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jgrib
replied on May 1st, 2009
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in your story you say you notice the environment change. i know exactly what you mean when you say the atmosphere changed, when i did mdma i learn how to control the brightness of color. when things get really down everything looks darker. when things are going really good everything is bright neonish colors. all i gotta say is you are deffinatley someone who is smart. when your older you will probably be able to take control of situations like the one you told. where you would have more confidence in what you do so you wouldnt get all down when some b*tch trys to bring you down. once you understand emotions more you will be able to take control of them kinda like chemistry and biology. and dont diss crack because you dont understand it.
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