>>11279285I think there's something about it that is probably real. Especially since schizophrenia is estimated to be 80% heritable; that is, 80% of the risk is thought to be genetic. Which is a fucking lot. For comparison, for depression, it's only 40%.
But I can't say I totally understand schizophrenia. One question I have is this: do you believe people when they say they're hearing voices and seeing things that don't exist?
Regarding the voices thing, which is very common among people with psychosis apparently, everyone has an internal monologue don't they? So I think when people say they're "hearing voices" it's really just their internal monologue, but they're thinking thoughts that they don't want to think, like "you're shit, you're a failure at everything" or whatever, and they don't want to accept that it's a form of self-criticism, so they think "oh it must be somebody else's voice that's speaking to me", or something like that. To put it in Freudian terms, I think their superego is causing them distress, so they rationalise it as being somebody else's voice who's speaking to them.
And as for seeing things / hallucinating, which I think is meant to be less common in people with psychosis than hearing voices is, then I am not sure they really are seeing things. Just like with the voices I think it's probably a rationalisation. E.g. a person with psychosis who thinks there are cameras in the ceiling, when no cameras are there, I'm not sure if they really are seeing cameras. I think they're just imagining cameras or maybe just saying that there are cameras because it justifies their paranoia. And maybe they want to believe in some paranoid story because it makes them feel important or something. E.g. someone who says they're being chased by the government, it makes them feel important.
I've met schizophrenic people by the way. And this is what I reckon is probably the case.
