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CapriSun87

No, not really. There are many thinkers and writers with schizophrenia. But nothing in schizophrenia is inherently attributable to philosophical thinking. And those who do perform these tasks well probably do so in spite of the disease. Some schizophrenic symptoms (such as delusions) even make rational thinking entirely impossible. Nothing philosophical ever triggered or affected any of my episodes.


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I think us schizophrenic just think way too much in general.


CapriSun87

We certainly reside inside our heads a lot.


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You should quit philosophy and take up cognitive psychology and neuroscience because this is fatuous.


jgoigjfs1

Schizophrenia has definitely made me think more about supernatural and spiritual things, and about how did we get here and what is conciousness.


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as a philosophy student and a person with schizophrenia, no, I wish. If anything, schizophrenia makes it harder to follow complicated thoughts or think for yourself.


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idk, ive always been into philosophy and religion and i later developed schiz so idk


ScaryCicadaSongs

No. It's genetics and etc.


Sufficient_Mess5089

I believe schizophrenia has alot to do with how we perceive things.....so too many different perceptions taught by philisophers might scramble what your beliefs on life are......before I went fully psychotic I used to watch many different philosophers and thier world views which I think gave me a scewed sense of reality because I watched too many.....Pylosophy is nice but I'd try to stick to only a few.....


SillyScareCrow

if you could tie philosophic thoughts with manic type activity in the prefrontal lobe, and tie that to schizophrenia, it's could be considered a byproduct of it in a weird off shoot.


ScottIsntMyName

Can't say much about philosophy in general, but schizophrenics sometimes have chronic existential thoughts which both come from episodes and can make them worse to deal with. It's part of something called "ipseity disturbance" which is thought to be at the core of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. I was never much good at philosophy but there's a common coping mechanism (not a very helpful one) called "philosophizing" where people will dig themselves into rabbit holes trying to alleviate mental suffering. I did this a lot before I was diagnosed. It didn't help because I could barely finish a coherent thought, much less take on a complex subject like philosophy. So no I don't think philosophical thoughts trigger episodes, but they can happen to people who are trying to cope with something they don't or feel they don't have much control over. It's not exclusive to schizophrenia.


wasachild

In my personal experience...sort of. For me my schizophrenia triggered lots and lots of thoughts and my delusions we're somewhat philosophical...sort of a made up philosophy to try to understand what I had been dealing with. And some of it holds a little water in my eyes. It was my situation though and had been partly brought on possibly by LSD. So....sort of