In addition, many of these schizophrenic patients are loners... the odd ones out from their society and community. And very often they are brilliant people with great ideas and superb brains. These characteristics were portrayed in the brilliant matemathician 'John Nash', in the movie 'A beautiful Mind'.
Watching the movie, and seeing patients in the psychiatric department when i had my rotation as a 'co-as', i noticed that the common thing among the schizophrenics and paranoid patients is that they are mostly alone. They have limited interactions with people and most of them don't like interacting with other people.
This made me think... the hallucinations occur to these lonely people because even though they shut themselves out from the world and though they think they are better alone, they still needed someone.
We all, as human; normal human with empathy that is (not psychopaths), always are social beings. Although sometimes our ego deny it, we always need someone, some interactions. And that is why the hallucinations come to these loners... they were incapable to make real contact, but they wanted some1.
The hallucinations are usually of people that they ultimately would like, or some1 that has same characteristics of them. These hallucinations of other people are just chips from their own conscience and thus they get attached to these hallucinations. Although they aren't real, these hallucinations help the patients in their thinking and thoughts.
Brilliant people are mostly crazy... sometimes, literally....
:)
-RandoMind-
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