The term schizoid refers to an individual the totality of whose experience is split in two main ways: in the first place, there is a [rift] in his relation with his world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself. Such a person is not able to experience himself ‘together with’ others or ‘at home in’ the world, but, on the contrary, he experiences himself in despairing aloneness and isolation; moreover, he does not experience himself as a complete person but rather as ‘split’ in various ways, perhaps as a mind more or less tenuously linked to a body, as two or more selves, and so on.

- The Divided Self

Depersonalization is a technique that is universally used as a means of dealing with the other when he becomes too tiresome or disturbing. One no longer allows oneself to be responsive to his feelings and may be prepared to regard him and treat him as though he had no feelings.

Another patient behaved in the following way: he maintained himself in isolated detachment from the world for months, living alone in a single room, existing frugally on a few savings, day-dreaming. But in doing this, he began to feel he was dying inside; he was becoming more and more empty, and observed ‘a progressive impoverishment of my life mode’. A great deal of his pride and self-esteem was implicated in thus existing on his own, but as his state of depersonalization progressed he would emerge into social life for a brief foray in order to get a ‘dose’ of other people, but ‘not an overdose’. He was like an alcoholic who goes on sudden drinking orgies between dry spells, except that in his case his addiction, of which he was as frightened and ashamed as any repentant alcoholic or drug-addict, was to other people. Within a short while, he would come to feel that he was in danger of being caught up or trapped in the circle he had entered and he would withdraw again into his own isolation in a confusion of frightened hopelessness, suspicion, and shame.

المرضى اللي بالكتاب يبدون كلش غريبين بالبداية وقد تتوقع أنهم ما يشبهوك بأي طريقة، بس الكاتب يبذل جهد جبير حتى يحاول يوصّل صورة المريض نفسه عن الذات والعالَم ويخليهم مألوفين وقابلين للتعاطف وياهم.
And I think he did a good job. With a little imagination, of course. And a willingness to let go of your sanity, at least in your imagination.

فكرة الكتاب أصلًا هي أنْ يسولف عن إنفصام الشخصية والذهان psychosis والهلوسات مو مِن منظور علم النفس والأعصاب، بل مِن منظور المريض نفسه وشلون هالشخص يشوف العالَم والذات ويتفاعل وياهن. أُسلوبه بالكتاب يسميه existential phenomenology اللي هو مصطلح فلسفي بالأساس، معناه أنْ نحاول نفهم ظواهر الوجود مثلما يشوفها الإنسان و "أنْ نحط نفسنا بمكانه."

هيو لوري، سلام الله عليه

Ribaldry (n.)
Is referring to sexual matters in a rude but amusing way.

What Could Have Been

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و الله ما اعرف اشو هالحالة احس بيها مرات و اسوي هاي الشغلات مال اعوف البشر و ما اطلع و لا اتواصل و من ارجع افتح احس بخطر ، على وشك انو ادخل بقتال نفسي من اتواصل ويا احد
Man ، am I a schizophrenic

هالشي مو بالضرورة يخليك مصاب بالفصام أو بمرض معين حتى.
الكاتب يذكر أنّ هواي أشياء يسووها مصابي الفصام تصير بالأشخاص الطبيعيين بحالات معينة. الـ dissociation مثلًا، لما تتعرض لصدمة و "تفصل" عن الواقع، ممكن تصيرلك بفترةٍ ما وتتجاوزها. إذا انت مصخن، ممكن تهلوس وبعدين ترجع طبيعي. الفرق هو أنّ المصاب بالفصام الحالة عنده تتطور بشكل حرج كلش يمنعه من الحياة تمامًا وقد تتحول لمرض مزمن.

أضِف إلى هذا، المسألة مثل الأمراض الجسدية: الحمى عارض مرضي للإنفلونزا، بس بنفس الوقت، مو أي مُصاب بالحمى معناها بيه انفلونزا.

هالسالفة كلش مهمة... لأن هواي أشوف أشخاص لمجرد أنهم يعانون من شوية "مشاكل" نفسية لا ترقى لأن تكون "مرض" نفسي، بس مع ذلك يعقدون الحياة على روحهم بأنْ يفترضون من يمهم بأنهم مصابين بمرض خطير ويدخلون بدوامة بس الله واهل البيت يطلعوهم منها