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Old Apr 08, 2014, 08:07 AM
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Too many weird coincidences are happening and have been happening for a while now. Like I find a bible in my house and then put the news on and there's something on about priests and religion. I went to see the psychiatrist today and then on TV and the radio there are things on about mental health. I didn't tell the psychiatrist about my suspicions though as it is quite absurd sounding and embarrassing, I felt I would look stupid if I told her. I don't know, I'm just curious is all. I know they aren't delusions though as there is a logical side to me that says 'of course it's not true', but a part of me thinks it is
Since you don't want to tell your pdoc I think there is a weight toward the of course it's not true side of things which means you've got a pretty firm grasp on reality. There just plain is a lot of coincidence in life...uncommon doesn't mean impossible. I still think this is more along the line of normal thought than psychosis though....remember the story of that woman on the titanic who pushed a button and thought she caused the ship to sink? The mind has a tendency to see patterns but it's so good at it that sometimes it gets fooled. I think the idea behind this is imagine us out on the African savannah...if you recognize the fact that a certain animal migrates at such a location and time every year it results in you eating and may save your tribe but if before last years migration you did something specific like walk in circles three times you might associate the walking in circles with finding the prey. One of them saves your life and the other is just a minor inconvenience even if it's wrong. So the idea is we evolved in favor of seeing patterns even if they aren't always correct because there is the possibility that it saved some of our ancestors.

So now you end up with people who won't shave during hockey season, wear lucky game day socks or dodge black cats who might cross their path. I don't think any of it is psychosis but I do think that being psychotic increases our pattern recognition or the odds that we believe a certain pattern I'm not sure which.
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