Hi there,
So I worked out how to describe my schizophrenia in layman's terms: it is a capitulation. There are many ways to describe a capitulation, as there are many types of schizophrenia - the point being that knowing the particular kind of capitulation for what it is will help you relate to schizophrenia and not just your own but others also. Capitulation - to explain - is where neurological activity in the mind, starts to fire for a different reason, than it normally does. If you normally think about things, and you get schizophrenia in your memory, you start to remember things more than you think about them. This is the crux of it: there is a transition from one type of activity to another.
Why does this - neurological capitulation - happen? It might be to save time, it might be to save energy, it might be to make you more able to do things that you need to do: all of these things justify capitulating to differences that would otherwise get overlooked too easily, for too little reason. What it means in the meantime, is that you have to adjust: you have to find a way to cope with your neurology "giving out", that is, becoming a different state of neurological activity (other than you would normally expect). This brings you to the fundamental point: change does not occur, in the absence of a reason.
If you need to change for a reason, you will find it compelling. That is the truth. You can force yourself to become schizophrenic, that is not impossible: people on drugs develop schizophrenic like responses to the drugs, some temporarily, some permanently. What is hard is waking up every day and facing the same problem of capitulation from a new angle. The Devil wants you to capitulate to something you can't handle - that's where a mental condition, becomes a mental "illness". The secret is, if we rely on the Holy Spirit He will tell us what capitulation we need to pursue and to what end. This is encouraging, that we are not abandon in our capitulation, but that it can be as the Lord needed.
I hope this makes a little sense to you. The point is not to get lost wondering "what capitulation will it be? How can I cope?"
Peace be unto you, in Christ Jesus.
So I worked out how to describe my schizophrenia in layman's terms: it is a capitulation. There are many ways to describe a capitulation, as there are many types of schizophrenia - the point being that knowing the particular kind of capitulation for what it is will help you relate to schizophrenia and not just your own but others also. Capitulation - to explain - is where neurological activity in the mind, starts to fire for a different reason, than it normally does. If you normally think about things, and you get schizophrenia in your memory, you start to remember things more than you think about them. This is the crux of it: there is a transition from one type of activity to another.
Why does this - neurological capitulation - happen? It might be to save time, it might be to save energy, it might be to make you more able to do things that you need to do: all of these things justify capitulating to differences that would otherwise get overlooked too easily, for too little reason. What it means in the meantime, is that you have to adjust: you have to find a way to cope with your neurology "giving out", that is, becoming a different state of neurological activity (other than you would normally expect). This brings you to the fundamental point: change does not occur, in the absence of a reason.
If you need to change for a reason, you will find it compelling. That is the truth. You can force yourself to become schizophrenic, that is not impossible: people on drugs develop schizophrenic like responses to the drugs, some temporarily, some permanently. What is hard is waking up every day and facing the same problem of capitulation from a new angle. The Devil wants you to capitulate to something you can't handle - that's where a mental condition, becomes a mental "illness". The secret is, if we rely on the Holy Spirit He will tell us what capitulation we need to pursue and to what end. This is encouraging, that we are not abandon in our capitulation, but that it can be as the Lord needed.
I hope this makes a little sense to you. The point is not to get lost wondering "what capitulation will it be? How can I cope?"
Peace be unto you, in Christ Jesus.
