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Forum Name: more and more JBR
Topic ID: 2120
Message ID: 22
#22, Brilliant, perceptive comment!!
Posted by DonBradley on Feb-04-04 at 12:17 PM
In response to message #19
>I agree with DonBradley. A reminder of this was written by
>an individual from Washington in 1999 (on a forum) to
>someone who suffers from Schizophrenia, and in part says:
>
>There is more. Gotta go now.
Here is the "more":

I want to address TWO themes that are apparent from your 'condensed history'. FIRST: I want to state that your thoughts of being personally responsible for the eruption of Mt.St.Helens is NOT a delusion. I repeat: it is NOT a delusion. PLEASE do not think I am a fool or that I am attempting to make fun of you. I am being utterly serious. Any schizophrenic's so-called delusional thinking is always 'reasonable'. Consider a schizophrenic alleging that a small metal ball in outer space was controlling his thoughts. Absolutely absurd and totally unheard of PRIOR to the 'sputnik' launch, but really quite common after the sputnik launch. IF there were no mountain with that name, or if it were NOT a volcano or if the volcano had not recently errupted...THEN your thoughts would be a delusion. After all, you did not blame yourself for the eruption of Krakatoa a century earlier or for the eruption of Vesuvius in ancient Pompeii. Consider the following: All newspapers and radio/TV stations were talking about the eruption, there was discussion about the ash fallout, etc. What would a 'normal' person do: he would absorb the information and 'assess,categorize and store' it at night via a dream fragment. The reason you accept the 'thought fragment' as 'fact' is simply that the half of a schizophrenic's brain that is in a dream phase of a sleep state does NOT know it is asleep and can not communicate its sleep state to the other half of the brain. That is why common auditory and visual 'delusional thoughts' are so 'accepted' by a schizophrenic...its 'obvious' to any one that the person is 'awake'...its difficult to get a schizophrenic into a sleep lab to determine that in fact half of his brain is actually asleep and is frequently dreaming. SECOND: Nutritional deficit of vitamins/protein. From your condensed version: acne: this is a nutritional disease. YES, its nutritional NOT hormonal. Even a pregnant woman who gets acne gets it because her fetus is robbing her of nutrients, same as a teenager with a 'growth spurt' is depleted of nutrients. Universit food: steam tables deplete vitamins, food is notoriously low in proteins. Homeless/jobless: all indicate poor nutrition. BEER: foaming agents in beer rob you of vitamins. Beer is high in carbohydrates, low in protein. Trip to country: Likely to be a low protein event. The two central themes to your history are: poor nutrition and "delusional" thoughts based on perfectly reasonable dream fragments. So see if you can get to a sleep lab and have the brainwaves prove to you that while you and everyone else thinks you are obviously awake and walking down the street...one half of your brain is actually asleep and experiencing dreams, but can not communicate that the thoughts are really dreams: therefore the normal body defenses are NOT activated, and your brain 'accepts' the dream as real. Good luck to you.
Don Bradley
Seattle, WA USA - Sunday, August 23, 1998 at 15:12:33 (EDT)