Are there differences
between psychiatric disorders and psychic condition? Are you sure? -
I want a dollar every time someone asks me that and fifty cents more, if the
following “Have you seen it for yourself?” comes after
Here you have:
PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITERIA:
Psychiatric disorder - person
shows incapability of social interaction like friendship and/or intimate
relationships. One tries to establish these relations, but with a
lot of difficulties and suffering, for both sides. This behavior usually comes
at very young age, but some disturbs like bipolar disorder, usually shows its
firsts signals after thirty years old.
Psychic condition - person
has ability to interact socially, has capacity of maintain relations, including
intimate .
Psychiatric disorder - person
has no coherency in thoughts, and no linearity in stories (I don’t know which
day, but I saw the sky, ducks are disgusting, my legs hurt, I found food in the
grass” …).
Psychic condition - person
has memories coherently and can establish linearity in facts (“this Wednesday
morning was sunny and we had a picnic, after a long walk, and” …).
Psychiatric disorder – person has
cathartic episodes (don’t talk, don’t move, eyes fixed nowhere) aggressive
and/or manipulative behavior and/or repetitive patterns like hitting the head
in the wall. These episodes are unpredictable and do not allow normal social
interactions.
Psychic condition - person
can establish cooperation into any situation and is able to talk about
experiences, any kind of.
Psychiatric disorder - person
can´t distinguish between internal from external experiences. Guilty
is projected excessively.
Psychic condition - person
is conscious of what is internal experience or external. Person can
tell what was dream and what was ‘real’ (as we conceive
it). Guiltiness is shared ( we did it, not you did it).I am even
capable of say “f#ck this sh#t” often…
Psychiatric disorder - person
sees the world and all people as potential danger and has delirium of
persecution, including internal voices that always speak about unpleasant and
sinister things.
Psychic condition - person don´t
have delirium of any kind and is not suspicious about people (exception made to exes and politicians). We heard voices, a lot of them, but we
end the day without freaking out…most of time.
Psychiatric disorder – person
has auto destructive impulses, even suicidal ones. Person can hurt themselves
or others in episodes with no apparent reason to be.
Psychic condition – person
observes rules to not injure themselves or others and, having auto destructive
or suicidal ideas (remember: everybody has the ‘right of five minutes’ every
day to feel whatever we humans can feel), is able to talk about them and accept
cautious advices.
Psychiatric disorder - person has
behaviors, in cycles or continually, of neglect health care, refusing to drink
water and/or eat and to follow basic hygiene rules.
Psychic condition - person
can forget to take a shower after walk for 20 miles, but it will last as long
as she stops and smell her shirt. Person eats, drinks, but can do diet if it
pleases, as regular people do.
MEDICAL CRITERIA
Psychiatric disorder – clinical and
laboratorial tests will detect physical disorder that can cause, principally at
brain chemical functions, psychological changes.
Psychic condition – nothing like
that, nope. You do want that somebody finding something wrong in you that will
go away with some pills and everything gets back to normal. But no, you are
perfect, maybe a little gastritis, low blood pressure and low sugar levels.
Psychiatric disorder - psychological
tests shows organic debilitation of brain, debilitation of intellect and memory
, also problems of communication, speech problems and basic time
orientation ( What day is it? What time?)
Psychic condition - if you don´t
ask things to a psychic during hangover or when he/she craving for coffee,
person will be able to say day , date, time and most of things you ask,
There is something important to
mention: real psychiatric disorders are those that can be
‘physically’ identified, as schizophrenia. Psychosis is not an absolute term in
psychiatry. It’s still not well defined. It´s every abnormal behavior that
includes paranoia, hostile acoustic hallucination and persecution delirium.
Although many people don´t know, infections, intoxications, metabolic
disorders, tumors, circulatory disorders and some degenerative diseases are
possible primary causes of psychiatric disorders.
Another thing is: in our society,
where social rules are in such a huge transformation, still, it´s hard to say
what is ‘normal’.
Now, altered state of consciousness applies
to such a vast attitude an human can produce. It confuses people that just want
simple answers. It goes from an experience with hallucinogens drugs, privation
of sleep, through what some men use as juridical term after killing their wives,
until exaltation seen commonly in religious ceremonies. By the way,
schizophrenic people can go into altered states of consciousness
‘spontaneously’ (there is always a trigger that causes it), or do a bad choice
getting some ecstasy in one party and going into another kind of altered state.
Psychics might never have had one spontaneous episode while others might have it
frequently. They can use drugs, although paying a high physical cost doing it. Psychic condition by itself doesn't mean altered state of
consciousness.
How to know the difference? Psychics with training can recognize the ‘spots’ on non-trained
psychics. If you see that one or more things described above (in the side of "disorder") are happening to you or to
someone in your responsibility, always look for professional help to have, or not, a
diagnosis. And then another problem: a doctor is trained based on what he
studied. Conventional or not. In this case, best is to
find a psychiatrist or psychologist that is trained in what is commonly known
as ‘transpersonal’ therapy. From all studies I have been in contact in Occident,
the work of Dr. Stalislav Grof and his wife Christina is the most
efficient of non religious practices . I saw other works, but Dr. Grof scope is
the one that goes deeper, again, in an Occidental way. They can give a real
diagnosis and support to both physical and psychological aspects, being a
psychiatric disorder and/ or psychic condition.
If you find out that you are a
psychic, welcome to the non-select group of those who see dead people! If
psychiatric disorders are discarded and dead people are still staring at you,
be calm. It´s possible, I repeat, to be psychic and happy giving some effort to
the training you will need. Look to the bright side! It´s a whole new world,
more wide, more species involved, more dimensions, more rules, less time to
rest, time travelling jet lag, more “bosses”… isn´t that great or what?
