read that schizophrenia is a cultural disease, where in the West we understand it as dangerous voices of crazy people, so when people get then they fit in the expectation and have dangerous voices. while in other places they show up as helpful voices, think I read of a case when the voice told the woman that hearing voices is strange and go talk to a doctor, then said goodbye when she began her meds and never heard that voice again.
they are called Culture Bound Syndromes
NOW I KNOW WHAT RUNNING AMOK MEANS!!!
The examples listed are wayyy more obscure than schizophrenia also this hot take
Some researchers have suggested that both premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more severe premenstrual dysphoric disorder(PMDD), which have currently unknown physical mechanisms,[27][28] are Western culture-bound syndromes.[29][30] However, this is controversial.[29][31]
In the middle of a bunch of ultra niche examples
Idk something feels off
I think that’s a better source for the schizophrenia statement
NOW I DO TOO. I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH TODAY THANK YOU MR TENTACLES
instead of blaming my farts on the cats i am going to blame them on an evil tiger spirit tonight. let’s see how the wife reacts. will report tomorrow.
I miss two guys and guy. I think the original website has been down for a while now.
My favorite one was Frank’s teleporter. I can’t find it otherwise I’d link it.
Edit: I managed to find it, but in Russian for some reason. I don’t speak Russian, but I’ll try my best to translate based on what I remember. The blond guy is Wayne and the brown-haired guy is Frank:
Wayne: Wow, your teleporter works! I knew you could do it!
Frank: You weren’t supposed to leave until the light turned green
Second Wayne: I knew this thing wouldn’t work!
I met a guy who had constant visual and audio hallucinations. When I asked him if the antipsychotics made them go away, he said no, the meds make it so he can tell that they’re hallucinations.
So are you saying it’s perfectly normal to have voices in my head telling me to kill people as long as I also have voices in my head telling me not to do that because it’s illegal? That means I’m perfectly normal, and don’t need professional intervention, because my mind is self- regulating, right?
Edit: Obligatory /s since some of you seem to be taking me so seriously. I do not hear voices telling me to kill anyone.
I’d say it’s only a disorder if it leads to negative outcomes (such as getting in trouble with the law or self harm). Otherwise that’s just the modality of your consciousness.
i mean, intrusive thoughts gonna intrusive thoughts. i ain’t gonna judge anyone on the contents of their psychoses.
Sure, but how do you determine if a thought is “intrusive” or just part of the normal workings of that mind? How do you tell psychosis apart from normalcy if there’s no negative outcomes associated with that distinction? Is it psychosis or just the hallmark of a different kind of person?
Well, in the comic strip here the person seems to consider the urge to kill normal and the self-regulation to be intrusive, whereas most people seem to view it the other way around
See my above comment:
no negative outcomes associated with that distinction
you’re asking the wrong person i just get 'em
The questions are rhetorical. My point is that being weird isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In cases like these the only “problem” is that they were born into a society that doesn’t understand them, or treats them as sick/evil/dangerous.
oh shit i am still running on yesterday and a shitton of weed sorry.
