Understanding Schizophrenia

[Human Mint]

Recently I've been researching mental illnesses and I found great lens from which to look at this particular mental illness:

Dopamine is linked to this illness, particularly an excess of it. Well not quite an excess but uncontrolled spikes of it at the wrong times.

Dopamine helps you to pay attention to crucial information that you need. Primarily for your immediate survival, like remembering a piece of information because your life is at stake (for example social pressure could be a big factor). In a normal person this would work at specific times were you need it, but in a schizophrenic person it shoots up any time, giving relevance to irrelevant stuff! It is the feeling of having your life at stake 24/7 without rests. And what's the hearing of voices and all that stuff? I don't know, what do you think it is? Well I kinda know but I want you to connect dots for yourself. Sorry that I am not offering more info though but you can look for yourself.

This is not the full picture of neurotransmitters though and science doesn't comprehend a lot of it. Science mostly does the obvious stuff of scanning what parts of the brain acctivates and inyecting neurotransmitters and see what happens. And yes you can have hints about the illness this way.

And this is from a neurobiological point of view only but it certainly connects to Mind and Onthology, since it is essentially the mind doing sensemaking in a pathological way. It is Love though, don't get it wrong.

I sincerely don't understand why some people in this forum dismiss neurobiology that much. Open to the discussion anyways.

 

 

 

[Davidess]

Let's say someone is anxious due to some stimulus. There are several neuromechanisms which make this possible. Such as overactive amygdala or increase/decrease of some hormones. Does this mean that particular physiology "causes" a person to be anxious? Or is it happening at the same time as a reflection of a psychological state due to the stimulus?

If someone gets his bones broken, does this mean that bones caused the breaking of them?

If someone has schizophrenia, does this mean that the increase of dopamine at certain tracts causes it? Or is it happening at the same as psychological state?

[Schizophonia]

It is a neurological defect; dopamine does not cause schizophrenia but reducing it helps decrease the neurotransmission of "bad" neuronal patterns.

A Lacanian psychoanalyst would say that this is a denial of symbolic castration; you do not wish to focus sufficiently on normal objects of investment, so the mechanism, driven by neuroplasticity, for suppressing useless/unwanted stimulis is deficient/goes on the opposite direction (psychosis).

From a non-dual perspective every illness, not just psychosis, is manifested because of denial of castration.

In other words there is (because of "karma") something present that disturbs the avatar, and because of the illusion of separation the avatar reacts which makes it real (since "you" are God; again so separation in the absolute), and so the egotic echo chamber continues.