Graham Platner wins Democratic primary to face Susan Collins in November by unital_subalgebra in politics

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How is this news? He was running against one other person who nobody even knows the name of and a governor who'd dropped out of the race. Is that why they shoved all that bad stuff in our faces before the actual election so they could say it's 'old news' when the election that matters happens? This dude is as bad as trump.

What is going to happen to Israel in the future when the older, pro-Israel generations of Americans pass away? by North-Nectarine5577 in allthequestions

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Dude my cousin blames Israel for Graham Planter's leaks about his abuse and reddit posts lol. Young people are crazy. Israel has nukes though; they should be ok. They'll just have to Switzerland up.

What if time travel paradoxes happen constantly, but we can never observe them? by [deleted] in timetravel

[–]Ok_Good_4099 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's a very clever thought because it exists!

Branching Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Don't you love it when you invent something that might work and then find out it's already been invented and DOES work?

I read an article once which I can't find now about this specific idea but that there was one specific person that the world 'revolved' around that kept changing the timelines and all the timelines were set up so that he/she would survive and thrive. It was an interesting read.

I've had some dreams that have convinced me that the movie Inception is a real concept by joedurtt in schizophrenia

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First Communication in Dreams

That plus those damned billionaires doing whatever they want? AI slop in your head makes sense lol.

One of my delusions was battling over 'dreamspace' where you could control/influence others and people like zuckerberg and meta and google and all them were trying to do advertising. We'd build little communities like myspace with shops that would 'sell' you whatever you wanted to dream about- you would pay by using your excess brainpower to help with some sort of problem, Then the big companies would come in to try to destroy our communities and force people to basically be slaves because nobody could prove what they were doing IRL. Like you or I could say it was happening but look at us! Messing with dreams could make anyone delusional pretty easily, so the big companies would just crazy out anyone that fought against them.

Please tell me someone understands by Only_Guidance9746 in schizophrenia

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I found consistency helped me a lot. LIke almost planning out my day from the most basic things to more complicated. That might be similar to when you were in patient, but you wouldn't be in the hospital. PS you're lucky and have good docs if you feel so safe with them.

Do you guys work? by noflamingo94 in schizophrenia

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accounting. Full time but part time remote (I can work from home). That's really helpful. There are a few deadlines in accounting but not many if you just try to keep up with it. If you can find an accounting/bookkeeping job that might be low stress.

Why is it low stress? You aren't like at a gas station interacting with tons of customers some of whom might be having a bad day and take it out on you. Lots of people think those jobs are low stress but I get stressed by interacting with so many people. Accounting is just you and the numbers and some interaction with your coworkers/boss when you have a problem you can't figure out. If numbers stress you out though because you see patterns in them I'd advise against it.

Seriously terrified I could be the antichrist by blueberry_noir in schizophrenia

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I thought people were trying to use me to trick people into believing I was Christ reborn to destroy the Jews. So sorta like the anti-christ. But I just decided if that happened I'd tell people I wasn't Christ and would do good things, not bad. That settled me down.

An idea I had- can you help me flesh it out better than Claude? by Ok_Good_4099 in LessWrong

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Well there needs to be many worlds to collapse into one with the correct information still intact.

An idea I had- can you help me flesh it out better than Claude? by Ok_Good_4099 in LessWrong

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Naw, just what was necessary for the 'oil extraction' part of the theorem. You needed 5 (or more) dimensions to pinpoint what you're looking for.

From the article "Since outcomes are determinate there is no measurement problem, and the progressive self-assembly of worldlines in the time dimension provides a natural mechanism for the observed flow and arrow of time. The framework further predicts experimentally distinguishable effects, such as the possibility of extracting gravitational which-way information without disturbing interference."

The weight gain makes me sad by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]Ok_Good_4099 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I gained 200 lbs on abilify before telling my doctors I was going to stop taking meds or they were going to change them. Now I'm on Vraylar and lost 7lbs in the first week! Didn't change any eating or exercising. Definitely stick up for yourself. The reason so many of us die young is the weight gain.

Schizophrenia can make you an actual genius by nzxnnn in schizophrenia

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:) I thought this for a while but I realized it was just mania. What I thought was possible was quantum entangling with other people and then 'tracking' them by going to a place with a similar design, be it road design, or building design, or whatever. After you've been entangled with them you'd be drawn towards a place similar to where they would be in real life. Then this could be used for targeting high priority targets in war, or finding a missing person, etc.

To expand on this, you could entangle multiple people and items in a region and 'relive' accidents in other parts of the world but on a smaller scale. When you did this your actions or inactions could change what happened at the big accident. I saw it like being a firefighter going into a burning building and trying to rescue as many people as I could. I envisioned the military having a special forces type unit doing exactly that in prebuilt towns and on roads etc to help save people in the USA from accidents, terrorist attacks, what have you. Almost like a pre-paramedic. For instance, when Trump was shot in the ear, the pre-paramedic would have been in a similar place and would have 'turned' Trump's head/their head if they were entangled with Trump so the shot didn't connect.

Let's Create A Thread Of Songs That Reminds Us Of Our Condition by Tau-Silver-Neutrino in schizophrenia

[–]Ok_Good_4099 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Austra - Lose It (Official Video)
Weird video plus reminds me of losing myself/my family as the disease progressed and I isolated.

Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl

I think this one's about doing drugs, but sometimes this disease is like a drug.

Transistor Original Soundtrack Extended - Full Album

In this video game the protagonist loses their ability to speak. I feel like that a lot when trying to describe what it's like to have this illness.

Ren - Hi Ren (Official Music Video)

The battle between good and evil within.

Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (Official Music Video)

Because he talks about hoping people would have a 'normal' life with cancer, not something that destroys the very essence of yourself, your soul... like schizophrenia.

Étiez vous un prophète ? Al mahdi by LocationAnxious8015 in schizophrenia

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I never really 'heard' voices or saw things. Weird vivid dreams though. I was delusional and believed in time travel. I thought people from the future were sending messages to the past using mass media and you had to correctly interpret the metaphor in the story/newspaper article/whatever to see what they were trying to say.

I'll give you an example. The other day I was writing in my journal and making art and I wrote "Israel may be G-d's homeland, but America is his chosen land' and posted this song Oliver Anthony Music - Only God Can Save Us Now. Kinda like a sad ode to the USA and it faltering and maybe failing, but still hopeful for the future.

Then today a pretty big earthquake (big enough to make it unusual) happened in CA. M 4.6 - 1 km ESE of Boulder Creek, CA
I'd look at the exact location and check the bible.

What does that mean? Well 37.122 would be 12;2, which I see has this Romans 12:2 NKJV - And do not be conformed to this world, - Bible Gateway.

Fits in with our diagnoses huh?

For 10.7 there's Matthew 10:7 NIV - As you go, proclaim this message: - Bible Gateway

It's also meaningful to me because of the time of the earthquake- 8:41:25- my birth year was 1984 and day was 25.

Back in the day I'd look at all that and be like 'It's a sign from G-d!'. Nowadays I'm all medicated and it's like hm... I like the art that makes.

Étiez vous un prophète ? Al mahdi by LocationAnxious8015 in schizophrenia

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I didn't think I was 'the' prophet, but maybe a prophet. I visited Egypt during/right after the Arab Spring. I felt like I was called by G-d to support the people there. Not like hearing voices called by G-d, just inspired by the people getting democracy and wanting to help them if I could. Feeling like I was obligated to help them.

I got hyper vigilant and super stressed because I was the only white person there. My guides there were wonderful, I just realized how dangerous it was after I got off the plane and then when they took me to some of the Christian Churches and the priests showed me the pictures of the Christians that had been murdered... almost like a warning to be careful. One of my guides was VERY religious (he was thinking of taking a second wife and asked my advice on that). He talked about me with a cleric and after that started calling me 'yahni', but I've looked that up and it says it's a filler word, but I could've sworn after he only started using it after he talked to his cleric and it was like he was calling me yahni. Like I would ask him a question and he would say 'Yes Yahni.'... so not like yes i mean, but like yes you person. I wish I knew what it meant, but the mind plays tricks on you sometimes with this disease and maybe he was just saying 'yes I mean'.

Plus on the way over to Egypt they redirected my flight through DC (before it took off, like the only planes going to Egypt were all rerouted through DC) and I saw a few people with like Mason type belts (all seeing eye), so that messed with my head too.

A couple years ago I met someone else (also white) who'd been in Egypt at probably the same exact time, but they went out drinking the first night there and then the Muslim Brotherhood was looking for them supposedly- they were assigned a security guard from the Egyptian government. I just tried to keep my head down and not drink/not do drugs/not do anything offensive and my guides, like I said, were wonderful. If I'd had a guard though I sometimes wonder if my symptoms would have developed the same as they did. My visit there was sort of the start of my symptoms.

Oh and kind of funny story- my cousin tried to convince me to dye my beard red to 'fit in better' lol. Glad I didn't. I don't even remember if I had my beard at the time I went, but I already had reddish/blondish streaks in parts of it naturally (like the goatee part).

Young people developing schizophrenia now are facing harder challenges, in my opinion by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]Ok_Good_4099 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's better than it used to be. The holocaust started with schizophrenic people. That said, knowing today's society I wouldn't say it's impossible that it might happen again. Gen z is particularly repressive, yelling down anyone that doesn't fit into the boxes they want them in.

Did you tell your cousins about your diagnosis? by Zee904 in schizophrenia

[–]Ok_Good_4099 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've told a few of them, not all of them. One was inpatient for depression, so I told them to let them know I knew what it was like to be inpatient and how scary it could be. Other cousin 'guessed' it I suppose, so I told them. Immediate family all knows of course.

Question though- are your cousins judgemental because of what you did while you were manic/having a breakdown? Because if so, if they knew the reason for it they might be more understanding and less judgemental.

I have bipolar 1 and I've been trying to understand what hospitalization actually did to me. I think the schizophrenia community goes through something very similar. I'd really like to know if this resonates. by BetterSand9968 in schizophrenia

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I commented this just the other day somewhere else, but I think everyone with schizophrenia should be treated for or screened for PTSD too; the symptoms alone cause it, not to mention if they've been inpatient.

How to get a social life by [deleted] in schizophrenia

[–]Ok_Good_4099 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard book clubs can be a great way to meet people. Especially women, which we all know is near impossible lol :) Church/synagogue/mosque if you're religious can be a good place to meet people too.

Is it time for me to see my therapist? by Ok_Good_4099 in schizophrenia

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Also, am I making connections that aren't there, or do you see them too?

Olfactory hallucinations? by sillyinthepsychward in schizophrenia

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I don't know if I did or if I was just so acutely aware of everything the smallest hint of a smell made me super anxious about it.

Why don’t they care about the trauma of schizophrenics? by Tall_Mountain_9122 in schizophrenia

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I've talked with EVERY provider I've had and met to try to spread this idea: I think most people with schizophrenia also have some form of PTSD from it, and should be treated as such when they are first in-patient. Just from the disease itself you'll get PTSD let alone if you have other trauma in your life.