I am a healthy, tuned un, intelligent person who has had a good experience with schizophrenia. I am schizoaffective disorder which is manic depression and schizophrenia but I don't get depressed. When I go manic, my brain works better and faster and I tune in and can read people and situations. The problem is that if we aren't taught or told about the experience it can be confusing and we can come to the wrong conclusions. People can get it wrong. Shamans used to connect with the spirit world for the tribe, there is a link now between shamanism and schizophrenia, but a shaman out of his natural environment is going to get it wrong. We have to be adaptable shamans. The spirit world affects the real world and the real world affects the spirit world, shamans, if they don't 'read' it right can get it disasterously wrong. There are good spirits and bad spirits and shamans can be influenced by both if powerful enough. For those shamans who feel they are on a mission but don't know what it is, please contact me or write aresponse so that we can pool our information, thank you
What I have just read makes the most sense in comparison to a lot of my readings on schizophrenia I have suffered mental illness for ten years in various forms and what you describe is what I have experienced in definition. I think I will have a quick read about shaminism.
i feel as if im on a mission to but dont now what it is, im diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but i think its a spirit thats doing it it toys with me and proves it can hurt me more than it does
pandorasvibe1 You described your diagnosis as schizo affective disorder which is NOT schizophrenia AND bi=polar what you have is a MENTAL DISORDER called SCHIZO AFFECTIVE DISORDER which is a separate diagnosis where the hell did you get the assumption that you have schizophrenia AND bi-polar.. schizo affective disorder is a relativity new DISORDER and symptoms are inability to control thoughts, anxiety, mood swings, and feelings of unseen forces either controlling you or making you feel people around you are affected, deluded thoughts.
SCHIZOPHRENIA is a specific mental ILLNESS and to be diagnosed correctly it takes around 6-9 months of in-patient assessment and monitoring an individuals behavior showing specific symptoms of experiencing auditory, visual, and even taste and smell is affected. delusions and regression into oneself unable to connect with reality in outside world communication breakdown, paranoia to which it can be then also aknowledged as suffering from paranoid delusions and diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia.
Bi-Polar is caused mainly by a lack of a salt within the brain called "Lithium" for many yrs people diagnosed with what was first called as Manic-Depression but changed now to Bi-Polar. Manic Depression was mainly treated with the drug Lithium and also mood stabilsing drugs aswell
So please do not state as fact your personal conclusions as to what your diagnosis consists of. it has NOTHING IN COMMON WITH EITHER SCHIZOPHRENIA OR BI-POLAR !!
I AM DIAGNOSED WITH PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THOUGHT DISORDER.. I WAS DIAGNOSED IN A UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC UNIT OVER A PERIOD OF 8 MONTHS BEFORE DIAGNOSIS WAS MADE.. I WAS AGED 23 .. I AM NOW 46 YRS OLD AND AM FULLY AWARE OF ALL THESE NEW DIAGNOSIS`S POPPING UP.. PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA IS ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE ILLNESSES IN MENTAL ILLNESS.. WHAT YOU HAVE IS A DISORDER NOT ILLNESS SO PLEASE STOP BELIEVING YOU HAVE SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BI-POLAR TOGETHER WHAT YOU HAVE ARE SLIGHT SYMPTOMS AND NO WHERE NEAR AS DEBILITATING AS MY ILLNESS
AS FOR INFORMING PEOPLE THAT ..WELL YOUR STATING IT AS SOME KIND OF FACT THAT SHAMANISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA HAVE BEEN LINKED???? PLEASE TELL ME WHO EXACTLY RESEARCHED YOUR CLAIM AND WHERE DID YOU GET THAT INFORMATION FROM ..I WOULD LOVE TO GO READ FOR MYSELF YET ANOTHER SHRINK OR DR WITH A NEW THEORY OF THEIR OWN//
AT THE END OF THE DAY.. DONT STATE ASSUMPTIONS AND PERSONAL BELIEF AS FACT WHEN ITS NOT.. YOU SEEM TO HAVE DIAGNOSED YOURSELF WITH ALL YOUR ILLNESSES..YOUR MIS-LEADING OTHER VULNERABLE POEPL;E SO DONT STATE YOUR INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO COME INTO A FORUM AND TALK LIKE UR SOME QUALIFIED DR OR EVEN SOMEONE THAT HAS EDUCATED THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO KEEP THEIR MENTAL WELL-BEING HEALTHY.. YOU RAMBLED ON ABOUT A LOAD OF FICTION AND ASSUMPTION.. ITS OBVIOUS UR DELUDED SO THATS A START