funtensity
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What's the relevance of bringing up this point?
That said, since you brought it up, I had a conversation with a schizophrenic a couple of months ago. He was good at hacky sack and quite erudite. He also believed he was part of a vast conspiracy involving the CIA, and that, for instance, they had injected him with nanobots etc. It went on and on and on, endlessly. Most of them that I've met have a hard time forming 3 sentences that cohere.
[MENTION=19605]mingularity[/MENTION], how do you know all these people you're encountering have schizophrenia?
[MENTION=19605]mingularity[/MENTION], how do you know all these people you're encountering have schizophrenia?
that's what i'm curious about as well
The schizophrenics are the ones yelling obscenities at you with nary a provocation followed by a nonsensical stream of consciousness. Or those with a highly unlikely conspiracy theory laden take on reality. The former kind often make themselves known to you. The latter are waiting to be asked.
bipolars in a manic state can do this exact same thing.
Or people addicted to drugs.
Almost everything is underdetermined. Hence a criticism of "not necessarily" is often excessively obvious.
A quarter of the homeless are schizophrenic. And they are not hard to spot. Of course you'd rather pretend they don't exist. Which is the point of this thread.
A quarter of the homeless are schizophrenic. And they are not hard to spot. Of course you'd rather pretend they don't exist. Which is the point of this thread.
means 3 quarters are not.
Dr. Charles Raison said:This last point is so important that I feel the treatment of schizophrenia is one of the few places in medicine in which it can be justified to treat people against their will.
...even if they have a disorder that does not necessarily mean that it automatically becomes society's right to impose medication on them, even if it is "for the better"...