schyzophrenia as manifold reality

schyzophrenia can be viewed as a multi-layer conception of reality by the mind. that's not saying much about schyzophrenia as a patologic symptom because everyone is capable of possess many conceptions of reality immersed on their minds, but on schyzophrenia patients this seems to reach a more deep level than usually; it is my belief that while sane conventional people can delimit the border between reality and fantasy schizophrenic minds fade away those walls until reality and fantasy become almost indistinguishable giving the person the impression of living many lives if he ackowledges it at all, also it is the thesis of this exposition that the harder the symptoms the stronger the fantasy the patient builds around himself

in schyzophrenia patients an alt reality performs an escape role from the perceived reality to an extent that he can gradualy lose conection with that reality. it's like the mind builds an alt universe to escape the deep level of pain the patient feels on his everyday life. it's the negation stage of dealing with pain but raised to an extreme level. lets remind us that fear is an evolutionary device to cope with danger so that the mind acquires a sense of urgence and devotes itself fully to the task of preserving the integrity of its bearer, but this comes at a cost of a very stressful and painfull sensation which consume many internal resources, like the heart rate raised to an high level and such, so that it comes in bursts of high intensity until the victim escape the danger or the stressfull situation. so the body wasn't devised to deal well to longer periods of exposition to danger or to cope well to prolonged stressful situations. in that sense we can consider fantasy the mechanism by which the brain sets an escape hatch to whatever it is dealing with in the form of fantasy, and therefore my previous assertion that this must be more intense the more painful is the perception of reality; it is a mechanism in the same scope of faint for instance where the brain experience a sort of fisiologic reboot, but in this case being an emotional reboot to another paralel reality in the form of fantasy. that's why fiction itself has such apeal to everyone, because anyone has problems and need some timeout to disconnect from them. fantasy is therefore an utopia the mind sets on itself as a safeguard device to the troubles it perceives

it is my belief the patient constructs a model of the world on his mind where he acquires more control sense over it compared to reality itself. on this virtual world he builds for himself he feels he can survive because somehow he is able to deal with it and that way it reliefs pain; it works as a refuge from outer reality. he can do that by chosing to unconstiosnly ignore the most traumatic and problematic facets of the problems he felts by repressing those memories connected to them, that is he sets zero weights on them

these synptoms can be either individual or collective. they are akin to conspiracy theories. supose an individual is reading a book and he finds the events related there so close to his own experience that he transfers them to himself and adapts his perceived reality to this new view over it. now he can adopt the plot to try to resolve some of his own troubles. the same way supose there's an economic breakdown and some ideology proposes that some sect is to blame. if this seems reasonable to some than they gain an explanation for theis misfortune and lose some sense of impotence because now they have managed to identify the source of the problem they can do something about it (like exterminating the jews) and at the same time gaining some sense of control and losing the sense of impotence that was steering their lives. in this view conspiracy theories are nothing more than a degree of collective schyzophrenia

This article was updated on September 19, 2018