Dealing with schizophrenia
After watching the movies "Pi" and "A beautiful mind" , I started wondering about schizophrenia, and how people deal with it. From the small reading I did it seems it attacks mostly men in their late teens or early twenties. There is very little knowledge about it, and modern science can tell very little about it, or do much for the people affected by it.
So, what got me wondering was how people dealt with it back in the day before science stole the mystere from nature.
Could it possibly be, that the whole demon, dark forces around us kind of thing, which are existent in some form or another in every culture in this planet, began not as a form of social control, but instead as the "revelation" of a person affected by schizophrenia? That would mean that much of our cosmology started in fact by people with schizophrenia (and note that schizophrenia is NOT split-personality) who were trying to deal with the sensory information others did not perceive.
I know we cannot but make hypotheses about this kind of subject, and that this idea might but just a product of ignorace about the subject, but if anyone minds giving an honest opinion of the subject, well, lets just see where it leads us to.
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