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Episode 11: Psychosis & Schizophrenia

Sisyphus 55 | September 16, 2025

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  1. @PessoaDixon

    September 16, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    Hi Housecat. I just wanted to leave this comment here to let you know I’ve been listening to your music a lot. (Most recently Dog Days) I think that you are more than just a successful musician but a great one. And I hope you get all the recognition you deserve.
    -Your Fan

  2. @tbear9353

    September 16, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    Hey guys…nice job. I enjoyed it. Just a couple of notes for those who are curious (I hope nobody takes this as a “gotcha” criticism, or anything like that, but…

    A Beautiful Mind was about John Nash, a mathematician, who made important contributions to game theory. He studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Princeton.

    Oliver Sacks is one of my favorite people, and although he didn’t come up with the idea of non-psychotic hallucinations (I believe most hallucinations are non-psychotic), he wrote a book called “Hallucinations” (Highly recommended, btw), in which he makes that distinction.
    Actually, I highly recommend anything by Oliver Sacks. Beyond fascinating neurological cases, and stellar writing.

    Cheers.

  3. @treeross

    September 16, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    The bit on making up words reminds me of one of my favorite rappers "Tech N9ne" who has some form of schizofrenia and he's fairly open about it. He makes up words from time to time but i feel like thats more because he's a rapper than because of his disorder.

  4. @michaelmccarty2292

    September 16, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    "Philosophers" are obsessed with these conditions because it reveal's the deepest parts of our minds and what it means to be person experiencing what cannot be understood, I've experienced mild delusions when I was younger believing to feel forces that may or may not have been there among other things.

    Some time ago I wanted to understand myself better through using high doses of shrooms, experiencing some psychosis in the process while also gaining so much more from the experiences themselves. I wasn't the same for months, I was an avid smoker of weed at the time and as I would indulge the herb the boundaries between reality and thoughts melded, visual snow with intense closed eye visuals, and was able to feel those forces in the air again and feel them touching me when I would deprive myself of the sensory trying to understand what was only what I can describe as an excited onset of unconscious processes.

    Since then I've stopped smoking and messing around with those substances but the desire to feel such intense irrational fear somehow still calls out to me because I felt so much more then what was deemed necessary or rational even if it ultimately hurts me, however I have also stopped experiencing any such delusions drug induced or not.

    To anyone who doesn't experience these things organically, or inorganically as I had; My heart goes out to you, you are strong and you must believe you have the will to combat, or live with what resides in yourselves. And to the others, stay safe if you do as I have done.

  5. @brandongutleben2222

    September 16, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    U guys are interesting…my sister has skitsoeffective disorder….let me just say ",holy shhhheeyit" nuttier that squirrel poop, and I have borderline personality disorder, I don't necessarily wanna be me, but Id really hate to be someone who betrays me, lol…..yeah….a big bag of crazy Here in this message lol awesome podcast tho.

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