Don't take mind altering substances such as cannabis unless your ready to face your faults and meet them head on . I found that weed EXPOSES your weaknesses , take it apart because you have the duty to write your own story . It's ok give in to the things you CAN control . You're right you do have a problem but its not what you might think , most of the time is fear . — Leandro Monzon
As a fan of more psychosis in a world devoured by damaging neuroses, I advocate smoking pot if it leads to psychosis. — Anthony
Psychosis is really the only cure for neurosis. — Anthony
And I think it is the result of violence within the shooter, which is likely caused as much by socially sanctioned psychoneurosis as psychosis. What causes violence within the individual? — Anthony
What causes violence within the individual? — Anthony
Anyway, I feel as though we're at an impasse so I'll return to the OP. — Posty McPostface
And yet you fail to mention the positives of induced psychotic episodes as seen by psilocybin and LSD. Many psychologists and psychiatrists are waiting in great anticipation when these tools can be harnessed to treat deeply depressed memories or traumatic events, obviously in controlled settings and under the guidance of someone who can help ease the arising anxiety, and with the proper screening methods too to prevent the emergence of more enduring forms of psychosis. — Posty McPostface
And while I have no grand consummate theories about it, there are some observations that have taught me all is not what it appears. — Anthony
CBT is NOT what it seems...it is more likely to lead to increased social mania, neurosis, and a break in consciousness due to the promotion of pseudo contact in oneself and in relationship. In short, it is childish as it doesn't lead you to own yourself as an whole human being with subconscious processing, and it ignores certain undeniable elements of mental process. — Anthony
What are the benefits of these isolated experiences, exactly? — TimeLine
You also appear to be purporting that induced psychotic episodes are the only real method of enabling a person to accept and articulate trauma, which is simply wrong. — TimeLine
Drugs does not help you do this. — TimeLine
It's not for me to tell someone about what only they can possibly know, or discover in themselves. Being honest with oneself tends to be a non transferable skill, either you have it or you don't. Or you finally admit your aren't being honest with yourself, but this will be the result of introspection. We can't actually inform each other's self-generating, organizing, and regulating ecology of mind, we can only trigger what's already there in another.Have you ever encountered someone where, when you told them the truth about a flaw in their personality, they respond in their shock with denial before attacking you or your character, involving gossip or sometimes slander in order to have other people side with them against you so as to avoid the anxiety? — TimeLine
Working with lucid dreams is an important approach, which is again a purely intrapersonal domain. I could never show you my dreams if I wanted to. And it isn't for another to do my own inner work of dream interpretation. Really though, what you've said here can't be taken issue with. I agree in the importance of articulation and self-exploration through art, writing and most all domains which include mental imagery in some way or another. Mental imagery is a non transferable domain, which is why we have to work there alone and understand the importance of being self-organized within.Our dreams manifest symbolically our subjective conflicts where we can interpret and articulate consciously our unconscious realm and express what we actually think and feel. Our perceptions and interpretations conflict for a number a reasons, mostly because of learned behaviour and our ego. In the end, our reason and rational faculties regulate our perceptual and behavioural responses and we should work hard to ensure that - like we do our bodies - we keep our mind active and strong through learning, knowledge and articulating our personal experiences. — TimeLine
Who is "criminals"? Who is "police"? Legalism, eh? Laws are the business of the universe, not man; rules of human behavior in jurisprudence often don't make sense because they don't incorporate universal laws of biology, physics, or consciousness into their dictum. In other words, it is possible for a criminal to be a better person and more mentally healthy than a "law" abiding citizen. Criminals just deal with the actual, honest law, and often times don't respect what doesn't make sense in the rules of behavior, under the misnomer appelation "law." I don't follow "laws" (rules of behavior) that don't make sense (were it a law I would have no choice) for my self-information. The ones where I'm aligned with universal law, such as not making another feel inferior, or not harming another, are sacred virtues I'd follow even if it were against the law (rules of behavior, or empirical expectations of norms) to do so. We're using the word "behavior" a little too much for me, for example, as there's little doubt in my mind behaviorism has played its part in screwing up lucidity in the non transferable inner realm of the individual. Behavior means little to me, it is so far downstream. What's important in cleaning up in a person begins way before their behavior, which is the reason why only the individual himself can do it. Perhaps intention is part of it, but even intention is a very limited concept. There are components to the mind and how they communicate with each other anent differences that make a difference, which the individual must get around via transpersonal experiences. Otherwise, the person looks from a part of himself at the whole, which doesn't work. You have to be able to engulf your whole psyche to see clearly the emergent property, or synergy of it. Psychiatry may have produced some disparaging names for this act of compassing oneself...not my problem; experiencing oneness is one of the pillars of sound mindedness. I've often thought monism and understanding its implied generative order as a font of the mind is important to psychal wholeness and eudaemonia. If you don't know where your own mind begins and ends as a process, the adumbration of it the process if you will, you won't know much about how to make a unity of it, which is a problem. If you don't know what it feels like to be crazy, you certainly don't know what it feels like to be sane. You can't take somebody else's word for your own metaphysical and metacognitive framework.This to me is merely denial. Criminals hate police because they want to commit crimes and while there are bad policeman that would therefore justify such a hatred, the fact is that the reason why criminals hate law enforcement is because they do not need such obstacles to their desired behaviour. There may be bad psychologists, but that is not the real reason why people express their rejection of psychotherapy. — TimeLine
Sounds like it would've been quite an experience for her and those around her. As I've said, there's no one prescription for everyone. Some people do just have issues and breaks with the "whole picture" that is necessary to keep things in perspective. Perhaps they are too impressionable. It's clear though, that perfectly adhering to collective beliefs could be the incipience of hysteria, as I have little doubt in the truth of mass hysteria as a possible source of hysteria in the deindividuated person. What else explains why so many people believe in the same fundamentalisms and have so many of the exact same behaviors? For the longest time slavery was legal even though there were reflective individuals who knew it was wrong all along. The collective hadn't the slightest clue what was going on.I saw a woman have a hysterical episode at work, our receptionist who was laughing hysterically and crying uncontrollably at the same time and there was nothing we could do to stop her and get her to hear us or even see us, despite her being there. It was frightening to say the least, her eyes staring wildly out into space as she laughed and cried, and when she came to at the hospital, she herself said she was extremely frightened and had no idea what happened. How exactly can you be lead to your "whole human being" when such a dramatic and uncontrollable psychotic episode does nothing of the sort. — TimeLine
Some cases are difficult to treat, so if there is a need then I'd also be willing to consider the other options mentioned in that link, not deny them based on years of prejudice against a drug. — Posty McPostface
Maybe there would be less of an opiate epidemic if people were allowed to use the poppy plant itself. — Anthony
Well, from my perspective, there's plenty about life itself that is irrational, is irrationality not a means of knowing what's rational? The warp and weft of circumstances themselves make people insecure and makes changes in biochemistry, the variance is always at the individual level, though, so to use the word "people" is slightly inarticulate. Our bodies are basically chemical factories; you are drugs. The brain produces a tryptamine that has actually been made illegal. The dumbest thing ever. You're illegal.I don't entirely agree with this sentiment although I've heard that before the world wars many drugs were legal at the time and people weren't buying hoards of speed or opiates to remedy their problems. Drugs, for the matter, have always been or have become a social issue once made illegal. I don't mean to spew libertarian sentiment against big government; but, people can be irrational, and even more so when under the influence of drugs. — Posty McPostface
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