My personal theory on where schizophrenia comes from, Constructive criticism is more then welcome, but expect a reply. I want to find out what is wrong with my theory so I can perhaps modify it.

Its a little long, but if you are interested then it wont take too long to read.

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Introduction

In general there are three types of schizophrenia, each of which has a set of different symptoms. The first type includes a disorganized state that exhibits incomplete jumbled speech which is often accompanied by silliness, laughter and/or crying and is called disorganized schizophrenia. The second type is called catatonic schizophrenia, this deals with the patient going from one extreme of movement to the other, basically immobility to wild excitement. The third kind of schizophrenia deals grandiose delusions in which the person has an exaggerated sense of self, power, knowledge and identity. Abnormal psychology (2005) Well you have to ask what all three types have in common. Each one deals with emotion on some level, making emotion the core fundamental source of these symptoms in which we are going to analyze to try and pinpoint what exactly is taking place and why.

Disorganized schizophrenia

People who speak in a disorganized fashion as opposed to complete sentences are displaying symptoms of a known ailment called disorganized schizophrenia. (Abnormal psychology 2005) Now if you compare these symptoms to a dream state then you can draw a lot of similarities between the two, mainly the fact that the ideas being displayed come out in a jumbled sense that don’t necessarily have a purpose or goal. But what you can diagnose is the fact that even in this state the brain is trying to accomplish something very important. If you look at both the dream state and schizophrenia and come to terms with the fact that the mind basically runs on a state of equilibrium, then you can also come to the fact that the mind is discarding unneeded information or information that might be considered harmful to its equilibrium balance. Memories work like this, when something important is learned, it creates an associated response in the mind leaving a memory created by a spike of excitement in the neurons, however when that memory gets pulled to be used indirectly by another idea or comes up in a conversation indirectly by another idea, it leaves residue behind as that memory cannot occupy two spots in the brain. Later that night while you are sleeping the mind starts disposing this residue in the form of dreams to equalize the mind back to its nominal state by removing the ideas that are not holding any emotional value and therefore taking up unneeded space and valuable resources to keep the mind working as efficiently as possible. What basically happens is the conscious part of the mind shuts down and a minimal level of activity continues to function in the unconscious, the secondary ideas that had no emotional attachment begin to shut down or more so the neurons release the stimuli that was activated the previous day in an incoherent fashion, this release is the dream state that we experience while we sleep. Schizophrenia works very much in the same way, people with disorganized symptoms are basically walking dreamers and the symptoms have appeared because mental residue has accumulated in the brain and the brain can’t function normally without removing it. So the unconscious part of the brain takes control and tries to discard the mental residue to bring things back to an optimal working state. Well I guess we have to ask what causes the build up of mental residue, well stress comes to mind as it activates all kinds of unneeded ideas as stress is basically a representation of negative ideas being processed through the mind resulting in cyclical tendencies of thought repeating over and over working themselves up the stages towards mania. This causes an influx of unneeded mental activity bringing on these symptoms of schizophrenia, simply because the mind can’t simply coup with the excess of activity. Evolution in general is geared towards recognizing patterns, not the level of context and stress that society puts on us every single day, and basically causes the brain to overload if too much stimuli was taken in. Nightmares may also be related to schizophrenia, simply because there is a main idea associated with a nightmare, most of the time it deals with a personal insecurity. This insecurity is tied to an emotional or several emotional events which may come up for whatever reason and activate various ideas that will come out that night while sleeping. Well the nightmare acts as a hindrance to your sleeping patterns and keeps the mind more active then it should be effectively muffling the benefits that sleep provides. This in turn will leave ideas cluttering the mind and the patient will be more susceptible to symptoms of schizophrenia allowing the disorganized symptoms to come to the surface as the mind performs emergency cleaning to restore the equilibrium that has been instilled and maintained by generation upon generation of evolutionary cause and effect.

Catatonic schizophrenia

Catatonic schizophrenia deals with two extremes of movement arising from symptoms of schizophrenia. On one end the person may stop completely and hold a position for hours as the symptoms take effect, and on the patient may end up going into wild frenzy performing the emotion in full affect as it is released. Abnormal psychology (2005) Well both extremes of the symptoms deal with the same form of stimulation release but it’s really up to the external condition of the cell stimulant receptors themselves that determine what symptoms the patient takes on. They symptoms present are really the manifestation of over stimulated serotonin/dopamine cell receptors (any cells that produce a stimulant really) that creates the secretion of the parent chemical causing the patient to experience slowed motor skills where stimulation is being released all at once or the stimulant receptors have stopped producing it all together indicating something has burned out and needs rest to recuperate. This set of events virtually brings the patient to a halt in a middle of a thought causing an internal conflict, or on the opposite end of the spectrum the receptors will process the stimulation all at once bringing the patient into a frenzy state causing a rapid release of emotion as the core of the anxiety is released. This release is the result of previous built up emotional events where the unconscious has taken over to release much of the anxiety that has accumulated from those emotional events, as a result the core of the anxiety breaks through the conscious defense and is released in a flurry of emotional activity that ether overpowers the stimulant cell receptors shutting them down, or they respond accordingly allowing the core of the anxiety to be acted out in the external symptoms by the patient. Everything that is happening in regards to the erratic symptoms is happening for a very good reason, to restore the balance within the mind to try and bring some order back to the functioning process and expel the negative stimulus present and release some of the activity in the neurons. All in all it is just trying to prevent any more emotional damage from taking place.

Paranoid schizophrenia

The third and final main state of schizophrenia takes place when the patient begins to blow things out of proportion to delusional levels in direct retaliation to a form of direct criticism. Abnormal psychology (2005) This level of action obviously reflects the inner thoughts of the person, introverted thought that has become cyclical action that is burrowed into the brain itself leaving permanent negative memories that eventually drive the person into a paranoid state of schizophrenia about the instilled insecurity placed there by the criticism received. The state over stimulates the brain and drives the critical processes into an uproar bringing out the old memories of criticism that were received at the former date in question. These memories obviously had an impact on the individual as all criticism does, nobody likes to be criticized and some take it harder then others, especially when their childhood was filled with various instances of it only to have it crop up again later in life fueling the manifestation of previous negative stimulation bringing out old memories. It seems the patients stay in a period of argumentative, angry and sometime violent state but all in all stay very coherent when they speak and act out their frustrations, most definitely from the memories being activated as they showcase urgency and purpose in expressing themselves on the incident at hand . In response to this overwhelming stimulation the brain unconsciously takes hold of the person and tries to purge the stimulation all at once by dealing with the issue that caused them personal anguish. The argument that ensues attempts to bring some gratification to the patient to counter some of the negative effects that came about from the criticism received at a previous date. What happens to the brain itself is that resources are diverted from the part of the brain that is under tension and redirected to other parts of the brain intensifying all the other functions allowing the stress to dissipate over time. While the tension intensifies, the unconscious part of the mind takes hold of the conflict and tries to rectify it with argumentative measures aimed at bringing justification to the argument, the logical repression breaks down and the emotional state forcefully makes its way out of the patient in the form of schizophrenia. With out conscious unable to intervene and stop barrage of emotion the person rages on in a schizophrenic state at the mercy of the mind trying to repair itself. Now two things are being accomplished here, the stressed conscious part of the brain is resting up as it is shut down, just like it would in the dream state, and the mind is trying to conquer the emotion associated with the harmful memory that is wrecking havoc and causing stress. Now with both sides of the problem being appeased, the mind can restore the equilibrium once again and revert back to its normal optimal state.

The cause of schizophrenia

The cause of schizophrenia is actually very simple and it was overlooked in light of genetic evidence that would suggest it is past on in gene form. I personally don’t have enough information on the genetic side of things but what was overlooked was the fact that a baby developing in the womb will still receive negative stimuli passed on by the mother. This negative stimulus is the result of transference at the developing stage of the baby’s life because the mother was under some sort of stress at the time. Cells work like this, when the mother of a developing baby is under stress, the mind equalizes that level of stress over the body sort of like a heat sink does to a CPU to effectively alleviate some of that stress over a large area, however there is a bi product of this activity. The developing cells in the babies mind become agitated and very sensitive since they themselves do not have the capacity to cope with this new negative stimulus and hence become very “touchy and overdeveloped so early in the cells lifecycle” well in response to negative stimuli being received later in life, the cells end up taking on the emotional state past on by the mother and overload causing a release of pressure and anxiety which is fueled by the negative stimulus accompanied by experience which creates negative emotion creating an activated frenzy in the cells themselves. In essence they manifested to this schizophrenic state because the fundamentals of nurture were tarnished. I personally believe this explains why a mother giving birth to twins or more babies can pass on this defect and have them develop schizophrenia later on in life at a manifested stage, probably more so because of the increased size as it would be more demanding on the mother resource wise increasing the chances of developing symptoms because of the added incurred stress. This would also explain other ailments as well, because the premise that I just put forth would also create a “host of crying cells”, a crying cell is something that needs stimuli to function correctly very much like an addiction, and would explain why people end up becoming alcoholics, or drug addicts, because they could be sitting around and develop anxiety to do something fun, which in today’s society involves a social atmosphere and in general a good time, it could also explain things like ADHD where the child’s attention span is compromised because of the constant need to move around indicating active brain cells that need constant attention, there is also no doubt in my mind that mannerisms play a role as well but that would be covered elsewhere in another writing. This for the most part would explain substance abuse among other things. I can see why this would be confused with genetics but it really comes down to what has been stimulated and what hasn’t, it really is that simply. There is another aspect to this; amphetamines worsen positive effects while they minimize negative affects. Abnormal psychology (2005) This falls right in line with the stimulation theory, as more stimulation would in fact worsen the effects of catatonic symptoms, and it would lessen the effects if applied to burnt out stimulation receptors causing an artificial response and reactivate them again minimizing the negative affects and therefore speeding up slowed state of catatonic effects. This would cause some artificially stimulated movement that otherwise would not be there. Antipsychotic work on the basis of blocking the stimulation receptors from producing the reacting chemical and therefore minimize the positive affects but do almost nothing to the negative effects, simply because the negative effects are caused by burnt out receptors that are not producing stimulus anyways.

A possible cure

Honestly I don’t believe antipsychotics are the answer, for one reason and one reason only, when you give somebody a drug, there is an effect that grants the person
temporary relief but in the end there is a backlash effect. This backlash is what causes cyclical tendencies and actually damages the cells even more causing them to age to an un-repairable status over time, just like somebody who does drugs all their life and there body takes the brunt of the load, look at Stephen Tyler or Keith Richards for verification. This is negative stimuli being applied as an external stimulate. Not good. What you want to do is obtain stability, just peace and quiet to give yourself a boost of stability to try and relieve the accumulated anxiety, the next thing you should do is provide yourself with positive stimuli like working out every day which improves your perception of yourself, running for 30 minutes a day, telling yourself that you are number one or anything else that reminds you to do something good for yourself, accept your flaws and say you are going to change the future and make it better, after all I am sure you have heard laughter is the best cure, and it is absolutely true in this case because it is the negative stimuli that has given you this ailment. This level of action will begin to reverse the negative stimuli that has been plaguing your development for the last few years as you gain the confidence to persevere over the emotional attachment creating the internal turmoil. Doing so will provide a neurological change through a good way of life. It is not going to happen over night as the key to understanding a positive way of living is feeling good about what you are doing, trying to reach goals. This is what evolution is all about, goals and progression, doing good and improving yourself physically and mentally, but with the context of today’s world you are going to have to accept your flaws first, pushing them out of your mind is not going to help because they only come back in your dreams, literally. You need to face them and conquer them. It’s the only way to get better because you attack the cause of schizophrenia at the source. Cells are cells and they can be repaired, life is resilient as hell, give it the right motivation to work with and it will do wonders for how you feel and what you are able to do. Deal with the fundamentals first and everything else later. You will be able to repair what you have done to yourself in the span of a couple of yrs, after all there is no way to unravel what has happened to you over the course of your whole life in a night. It is going to take work and positive influence in many forms. Eating right for nutrition, exercise for that daily positive stimuli boost and most important, doing something productive with your time to make you feel better about yourself, don’t and I stress don’t fall into the cycle of relying on a pill to make you feel better. You have to take that negative stimuli and turn it into a positive experience which will heal the “crying cells” and bring you back to a normal positive state. Your mind will love you for it. And most of all you will love yourself for it and end up feeling a lot better in the process. Get some help if you need it, but please don’t take pills, you are not correcting the problem at the source and will continue to think in your negative cyclical patterns effectively making the symptoms that are present worse with time.

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