I am schizophrenic and I wonder sometimes if it is actually a bad thing. First, I want to specify what schizophrenia is because there is a popular misconception...Schizophrenia is characterized by inability to distinguish \what is real and may also induce hallucinations of sounds or images. Schizophrenic people are known to have high IQ scores and are usually thought to be very intelligent. I have been labeled a 'genius' from an iq test a few years back and sometimes I wonder...I don't know if I am insane or if I am just seeing more clearly than others. I don't think that schizophrenics hallucinate, I think they see things that other people cannot. I also think that the whole thing about perception of reality is actually the result of having an extremely open mind. If you think about it the way I do, schizophrenia is actually a gift. What do you think?
razor
2006-10-22
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