>>12732665I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia for 1 month then I was put back to drug induced psychosis. Was from cannabis. Our family has OCD and anxieties. I believe the cannabis made it worse for me.
For me, not schizophrenic technically, but still battle with conflicting thoughts for the last 7 years. I still find it hard to accept reality as it being what it is; flat. I got very used to magical thinking. Seeing everything having its own unique influence signature. This was more exciting. But I got a lot of headaches and eye strain with it. So I doubt myself now. It's very hard to get back into normal life when you've given yourself (or witnessed, this is my current mental struggle) an enchanting world for years.
Synchronicity with the world was very real though I feel, far too uncanny to be fluke. For example I drove out the driveway (as a passenger), this 13 year old stared at me, and locked eyes, so I put my middle finger up at him as we drove of, with him looking back. 1 week later, as I come home from a walk, within 20 meters from where I gestured to that kid, this other kid in a car, drives past with his hand out with a middle finger at me. The odds are very low of those parallels, with that time frame and location. I've had a lot like this, beyond coincidence. And it wasn't just months apart, years apart. I'm talking either momentarily, seconds, minutes or days of perfect parallels. The thought of taking pills for that was like taking pills because you saw the grass as green.
In terms of bizarre thoughts, humans have always has bizarre thoughts compared to what the modern society would entertain. Look at our history, thousands of years of paganism, religions, spirit animals, shamanism etc. If I remember right, they found a 10,000 year old stone totem in Turkey with carved animals. They all felt strongly enough to carve that, same with the pyramids. Was tens of thousands of people all schizophrenic?
