Anyone have "altered sense of self"

Anonymous wrote:Most religious texts, Bible, Koran etc are full of people that here voices and see visions and have what we call these days delusions.
It seems that we live in a time and culture where our voices, visions and delusions are seen as crazy and worthless. I've read most psychotic episodes last on average six weeks. There are a lot of references in the bible such as the 40 days in the wilderness, then the big revelation. I suppose one day in the past the church said enough is enough, we will stick with what we've got! It's the only way they could ever maintain power I suppose. I see all those people worshiping one religion or another as pretty much going through (in psychiatric terms) shared psychosis. >>

eh, why do people always start preaching at me...im not really into the bible and all that. Not that im saying all of it isn't a possibility (jesus christ and what not), but i dont tend to pay much attention to that stuff. If much of what the Bible says IS true, well then, i sure wish it werent.
The bible is just one more thing in the world that pisses me off, because, it seems, most of the people around me are so engrossed in their religion itself and dont really seem very open-minded about other possibilities. People always telling me i'll go to hell unless i accept jesus and so and so.


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>Since my stint as a so-called schizophrenic, (I hate that term it is so demeaning) I have changed heaps and altered a great deal. Laing and Jung saw psychosis as a natural healing process where the mind goes into a molten or free state while it heals, dreams become reality and so on. When you've come out of it, of course you’re different/altered. Hows it for you? I'm heaps more resiliant and tough!<<


I actually dont mind the term "schizophrenia" although, i dont give it the same deffinition that psychiatrists and everyone else give to it: that i am crazy and sick.
I believe my "delusions and hallucinations" to be real and true. Actually, i think all these other people are the real "crazies" and dont see the truth about the world--they are blind and ignorant.
So if people call me "schizo" this seems to be their way of defining me as weird and different from the majority of the population.... And concidering that i despise the majority of the population, i certainly take it as a compliment to be concidered different from them all...or "schizophrenic"

>>Is being labelled schizophrenic cool in the USA?