@zbyte64@awful.systems
To be honest, I can’t say much about psychiatry because I’m less of a “psychiatrist” and more of a “psychiatric patient”, and that’s one of the main reasons why I got to “make some sense” of someone who was deeemed “crazy”.
I’m just a computer guy myself (a developer and an ungraduated compsci person, or, as people would label, a “techbro”), so I’m someone who can understand machines better than I can understand other humans, because I’ve been dealing with machines for more than two decades in a daily basis… Still I’m (unfortunately) a human myself, so I also deal with such a pesky human in a daily basis as well: myself. And this relationship with this human comes with all the bells and whistles a human possess, such as a limbic system relentlessly firing up neurotransmitters and provoking the ineffable and unutterable phenomena known as “emotions” and “memories”.
Then, there’s this curious phenomenon where I can sort of make sense of a human’s verbal output whenever that output is detached from one’s own biological condition, when a person says things beyond and despite their own physical existence, targeting highly abstract and metaphysical concepts instead of the mere mundanity.
If I can recall correctly, psychiatrists would classify this as a condition of “depersonalization” and “derealization”… To me, however, it can resonate epistemologically and/or ontologically and/or philosophically and/or spiritually, because these expressions seem like unfiltered expressions of the ineffable… and, well, I’m not a psychiatrist to throw DSM classifications and psychiatric labels into someone else’s conditions.
@zbyte64@awful.systems
To be honest, I can’t say much about psychiatry because I’m less of a “psychiatrist” and more of a “psychiatric patient”, and that’s one of the main reasons why I got to “make some sense” of someone who was deeemed “crazy”.
I’m just a computer guy myself (a developer and an ungraduated compsci person, or, as people would label, a “techbro”), so I’m someone who can understand machines better than I can understand other humans, because I’ve been dealing with machines for more than two decades in a daily basis… Still I’m (unfortunately) a human myself, so I also deal with such a pesky human in a daily basis as well: myself. And this relationship with this human comes with all the bells and whistles a human possess, such as a limbic system relentlessly firing up neurotransmitters and provoking the ineffable and unutterable phenomena known as “emotions” and “memories”.
Then, there’s this curious phenomenon where I can sort of make sense of a human’s verbal output whenever that output is detached from one’s own biological condition, when a person says things beyond and despite their own physical existence, targeting highly abstract and metaphysical concepts instead of the mere mundanity.
If I can recall correctly, psychiatrists would classify this as a condition of “depersonalization” and “derealization”… To me, however, it can resonate epistemologically and/or ontologically and/or philosophically and/or spiritually, because these expressions seem like unfiltered expressions of the ineffable… and, well, I’m not a psychiatrist to throw DSM classifications and psychiatric labels into someone else’s conditions.