According to Anti-Oedipus authors Guattari and Deleuze, "schizophrenia is an extreme mental state co-existent with the capitalist system itself and capitalism keeps enforcing neurosis as a way of maintaining normality."
The suggestion here is that enforcing neurosis is the path to maintaining normality, and capitalism is the enforcer.
As welll, the unconscious undercurrent played out through forces of capitalism (jobs) may have a pseudo-schizophregenic component, of which schizophrenia is an extreme outcome.
My question is, why can't the root cause and effect of the anxiety-insomnia-hypomania-mania-psychoses pathway be properly managed?
I'm referring to stress, which initially causes insomnia due to the effect of anxiety but later evolves into the indirect cause of hypomania, mania and ultimately psychoses.
However, it is stress that activates schizotypies, which are originally benign eccentricities of personality, that may evolve into one of several different forms of schizophrenia, due to the effects of extreme stress and resultant anxiety.
Depression and mania are just expressions of the extreme spectrum of bathos and pathos which both plague and inspire creativity on anyone of suitable fortitude to live with their neuroses.
Of course, the cheap preventative and/or solution for mental illness is to get regular exercise, sleep the optimal 9 hours, and if need be, take the medication suited to a person's personality type to reduce anxiety and/or promote sleep.
If necessary, a few people will respond to something as safe as prescribed medication, provided that the patient BELIEVES that medication works. He also has FAITH that they do work, which strongly implies a placebo effect facilitated by his belief and faith.
Please note that the patient does need to believe in what his psychiatrist or family doctor says regarding medication, and must be positive toward medication using drugs which do the least harm to the patient.
Additionally, the prudent mental health consumer may substitute meditation for medication if the use of stronger medication is counterindicated, be it for ethical, financial, moral, political and/or religious reasons, provide that his belief that meditation works reinforces his faith in meditation and vice versa.
YMMV
References:
Wikipedia article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus
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Note: I don't apologize for the use of BIG WORDS which might make this blog post hard to understand.
It would take longer to simply say what I mean. Supposedly the solution is schizo-analysis according to Guattari et al.
I am led to believe the solution is social masturbation i.e. the capacity for compassion, humor and acceptance of social capitalism to sell yourself and improve your productivity both to your family and to your boss.
That's all fine and dandy. Pardon me while I take my pills... :p
Anti-oedipus attempts to track down "all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives" — Michel Foucault, ibid.
Bahahaha! Also hilarious are the Drs Stéphane, feminist psychoanalysts who analyzed the May 1968 rioters as suffering from infantilism and symbolically rebelling against the father by attempting to "smash the State".
The Drs Stéphane then cried "intellectual terrorism when Dr Lacan of his authoritarian school of psychoanalysis said they couldn't possibly be from his school, calling their work, drivel.
This wikipedia entry on the book is hilarious!
Neuroses when referring to one person is not exactly a psychiatric term. It is a psychological term referring to one of the Big 5 Personality Traits.
YMMB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
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