40% of cases of schizophrenia are from the immune system attacking synapses in the brain.
Do you have any links to research or papers on this? Thanks.
Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?
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#12I’ve been diagnosed with Delusional Disorder after a long term infection with the Epistein Barr Virus. I spent a period of time in a deep psychosis. What it seems like now is my brain trying to make meaning out of something traumatic. I believed I was one of the most important people in the world when I was in a state of shock. The delusion still persists despite heavy doses of psychiatric drugs.
I wonder if something like exercises for the concept of psychological flexibility could help. In reality we're all equally important, as we are one - so within this context, your belief isn't wrong. The important part then becomes in how you treat yourself and other people, being kind, and practicing non-violence (towards yourself and others). I wonder if any shamanic traditions like Ayahuasca ceremonies or one more…
The part of it that was damaging was that I was attempting to work as a data center security guard (to later become a data center tech). my employer responded to my inability to do my job or even get up and leave the building, by interrogating me. it constantly replays in my head for years now and the only time I really calm down is when I smoke weed or get drunk or something.
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Do you have any links to research or papers on this? Thanks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0235-x
Thank you.
Any tips for lowering inflammation? I only know of these; lower intake of alcohol, sleep well, kurkuma, aspirin.
Just as a datapoint, I suffer from psychosis and experience a good response to aspirin.
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#14Maybe this is because I've been watching Maniac but I've been thinking about this. My hypothesis is based upon the idea that the brain's main purpose is to make sense of the world and to do that it makes predictions and theories of "world" as it goes about.
Schizophrenia just seems like this process on overdrive where some of the key processes involved with keeping this overall process stable go awry. One of these minor processes is probably a belief process where the brain classifies things by True / not True. Since minor psychochis can occur to recreational drug users using psychedelics that make their mind more open to ideas, this seems to make sense to me.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0235-x
Thank you. Any tips for lowering inflammation? I only know of these; lower intake of alcohol, sleep well, kurkuma, aspirin. Just as a datapoint, I suffer from psychosis and experience a good response to aspirin.
Eat an anti inflammatory diet. See Anti-Inflammatory Recipes: The Complete Guide by David Colombo.
Also, take a glycine supplement or drink lots of bone broth to boost your glutathione levels (your body's natural antioxidant). Muscle meat has glycine in it too, but most of it goes towards counteracting the methionine that's also in muscle meat.
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#1640% of cases of schizophrenia are from the immune system attacking synapses in the brain.
interesting. Have you read up on the new research that shows that DNA from mitochondria leaks out during stress and is treated as a foreign invader?
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#17This is the first post in a series about schizophrenia, and will discuss the difference between schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis.
(For clarity, I didn't write this article).
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#18Schizophrenia is what Mohammed suffered from, which caused him to think Allah was talking to him. In actuality, his brain was malfunctioning due to Schizophrenia.
On the contrary, it's possible that transcendent experiences are built into the human psyche, and that schizophrenia-like disorders are examples of the extreme end of suggestibility and ruminative thought -- i.e., an inability to properly interface with subconscious processes.
The brain is a storyteller for the conscious experience, and yet the deeper that rabbit hole goes into creativity and analysis, the more discipline is necessary to turn away from it and delegate to the unconscious.
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#19Maybe this is because I've been watching Maniac but I've been thinking about this. My hypothesis is based upon the idea that the brain's main purpose is to make sense of the world and to do that it makes predictions and theories of "world" as it goes about. Schizophrenia just seems like this process on overdrive where some of the key processes involved with keeping this overall process stable go awry. One of these mi…
It seems more like a defect in attention, but not a deficit; it’s an overabundance of attention to irrelevant details that the brain ascribes significant meaning to. The reason I have this hypothesis is that ADHD patients tend to have lower concentration of dopamine, whereas schizophrenics have a higher concentration than normal.
An example would be ascribing significant meaning to an event that is random. But for the schizophrenic the event isn’t random, it’s the result of a persecutory delusion, at least in the paranoid variant. It looks very close to religious thinking, but in a negative way: “The dry cleaners I go to are secretly a front for a shady government organization that is attempting to study my every action”
Re: Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?
#20Maybe this is because I've been watching Maniac but I've been thinking about this. My hypothesis is based upon the idea that the brain's main purpose is to make sense of the world and to do that it makes predictions and theories of "world" as it goes about. Schizophrenia just seems like this process on overdrive where some of the key processes involved with keeping this overall process stable go awry. One of these mi…
It seems more like a defect in attention, but not a deficit; it’s an overabundance of attention to irrelevant details that the brain ascribes significant meaning to. The reason I have this hypothesis is that ADHD patients tend to have lower concentration of dopamine, whereas schizophrenics have a higher concentration than normal. An example would be ascribing significant meaning to an event that is random. But for th…
That is actually quite an interesting theory. I have ADHD and I am fully aware they I attribute very little meaning to most situations, even those that neutrotypical people would ascribe considerable value. On medication, it feels like the important things all of sudden become important and therefore worth doing, thus reducing procrastination and overcoming low entropy in regards to motivation.