Schizophrenia is a really interesting phenomenon. It seems very reasonable to assume that there is a great deal going on around us that we simply cannot perceive. Some of this is due to the limits of the senses, but some of it must also be due to limits in thinking. I sometimes wonder if the schizophrenic isn't tuned into things that the rest of simply cannot pick up on, but because he is trained to think like the rest of us, he can be confused or frightened by the experience.
I really don't know enough about the disease to offer the above thought as anything more than musing, but given my experience with psychiatry, I do tend to think that doctors are still bound by alot of assumptions which prevent them from really questioning what they are trying to diagnose and treat.
That being said, don't take my hunches too seriously. Recently, I started feeling like things were on the uptick, in a really sure kind of way, right before my wife's dog died costing us like $4K (money we didn't have) in the process of trying to save him. Yeah, that was a kick in the nads.
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