How it feels to have a stroke

http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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[havico95]

How it feels to get high!

[tylerbhobbs]

thats good weed!!!!

[MRtoker2007]

She be dabbin all day!

[Aneuremia]

I have to know where she gets her weed!

[Snetigeren]

Lack of sleep if it goes on for long enough will eventually lead to psychotic symptoms. Yes, I agree on this.

[ivedoneitall]

Anyway... he has absolutely NO symptoms of schizophrenia now NONE. So I'm pushing toward this belief. ...in my son's case anyway. When I HAVE to wake him up, which is extremely difficult, the signs come back. This doctors was saying EVERYONE with lack of sleep will have the exact same symptoms described with schizophrenia. Makes sense to me. I wish I could find that doctors website again. . He had a youtube video on this. Thank you again, if you have any more info, send my way.

[ivedoneitall]

Interesting LIVING with someone on an on-going bases gives you more insight as to what is and what isn't. There is a doctor in Texas (and I have lost the connection due to my OLD computer information being lost), who thinks schizophrenia is 'lack of sleep'..the receptors don't connect. (Based on WW!! prisoners of war and the 100 mile march)... so I put this to the test with my son. He sleeps his own sleep patterns, up for 20 to 30 hours, then sleeps for 10 to 20 hours.. really odd patterns.

[Snetigeren]

Sorry about hacking up the link but that is the only way Youtube will let me post it. Read it in its whole with htt p in front.

[Snetigeren]

These 3 films by Daniel Mackler may very well give you a good sense of what Psychosis is without all the latin...

.iraresoul. com/dvd.htm l

[Snetigeren]

Further on: "Research has also repeatedly found that ‘schizophrenia’ is one of the most stigmatizing of all psychiatric labels, and promotes unwarranted pessimism about recovery because of the implication that people with this diagnosis suffer from an irreversible ‘brain disease’."

[Snetigeren]

Excerpt from the ISPS press release concerning the forthcoming name change: "In debates preceding the vote the two primary reasons put forward in favour of the change were that the term ‘schizophrenia’ is unscientific and stigmatizing. It was pointed out that the construct has little or no reliability (the extent to which experts can agree on who meets criteria for a diagnosis) or validity (the construct’s ability to predict things like prognosis or treatment responsively)."

[Snetigeren]

There is a lot of debate about the upcoming DSM V. ISPS has changed its name along with a lot of other organizations to no longer include schizophrenia.