zabu of nΩd
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- Feb 9, 2007
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I would just like to say that if you hypnotize a schizophrenic and say if, like my friend Stu, they hear voices in their head, you can tell them to turn the voice so low that they don't hear it anymore.
The thing most people with real mental illness need are options for response. Obsessive compulsives are just stuck in a loop, created my mental images of something bad happening and a associated anxious bad feeling. Give them a way out of the loop that feels better and they will take it. Same with phobics. Have them feel relaxed and do some double dissociative, where they watch themselves watching themselves in a phobic situation. Then as they step into the situation, they stay calm , and learned a new response which can be kept.
If you know someone with anxiety, tell them to toss a ball or something, back and forth. Anxiety is just a buildup of one side of your brain.
the thing is that there is no one who isn't mentally ill, its just some people can control it and others can't. We hallucinate in daydreams, or when doing math, etc. The problem people have is that they don't know how to control their thinking.
I'm sure you can imagine anyone's voice in your head, Even hear one when you read. Does that make you a schizophrenic? No, its the lack of control over those voices. The lack of options.
Boy, you sure know a lot about psychology. I bet you could open up your own psychiatric office.