Tuesday 22 March 2011

Kill the artists, said psychiatry!

Well. It's not quite true. Perhaps.

Schizotypy are traits asociated with schizophrenia. Creativity is one of them. Schizotypy is not an illness. It is a wellness. It's study is a rare example of psychosanology, the antithesis of psychiatry and a fundamental level.

Artists may not be valued, at least not the mad ones. Van Gogh never was and he was mad as a hatter. He was never successful in his own time either.

Thankfully he was spared psychiatry. He never was medicated with anitpsychotic medication, a medication which works to inhibit schizotypy behaviour. One of those is creativity.

These drugs are often used on artists for life. They reduce life expectancy but, even worse, they are designed to annihalte the being. The are the death of art and creativity.

They would kill religion too. Though they are careful when dealing with people with religious beliefs they use their chemcials to try to stop spiritual experiences and regulate people's interaction with their divinities.

The diagnosis of schizophrenia is spreading to cover at risk people. These people are those that show schizotypy traits as well as other behaviours and human experiences. They would rely on their favourite tool to cease the existence of the phenotypes. The antipsychotic.

Kill the artists, said psychiatry.

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