Real World Philospohy

[Loser]

A couple of the early symptoms of adult schizophrenia are delusions of incredible insight and personal empowerment. They take a lot of different forms, but all lead to very 'inconsistent' behavior, which is dangerous.

Insight always makes sense, that's what it's about. Even more dangerous is that personal empowerment and impossible insight feel really, really good. People take street drugs and prescription anti-depressants just to get a fraction of this experience.

If you had to chose between believing you were gifted and super-capable and believing that you were unstable and no longer able to care for yourself, which would you choose? Which would you want to be true?

Personally, I'd wait until the evidence against me was undeniable. I couldn't just give up. We would regard that as strength in many other situations, which just makes it more dangerous.