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Originally Posted by Sinking Feeling
I asked a similar question either here or some other forum board and the thread was closed after about 6 posts. The way I posed the question was a bit different.
I asked, what is the difference between being delusional and religious?
Both can hear voices, see signs, feel inspired, believe God picked them for a mission, so what is the difference I asked.
I suppose my question was taken as being sarcastic but I was being sincerely seriously honest.
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i think it's all a very valid question.
i suppose in one sense part of the difference is with schizophrenia there is often a lot of psychological/emotional distress & loss of functioning - the experiences could be considered to be bad. & also schizophrenia isn't socially/culturally sanctioned/supported/accepted - whereas other forms of experience/belief/behaviour are.
We're in very murky waters, that a lot of people have considered & written on. i don't really agree with Szasz, but he pointed all this out with his life work that the entire psychiatry business was manufactured. 'Insanity - The idea & it's consequences' was about his best book.