http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/07/reframing-mental-illness/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/09/07/reframing-mental-illness/#comment-8268 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:49:14 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/09/07/reframing-mental-illness/#comment-8268 Having had a psychotic epsiode, only one, fortunately, I find it relates very closely to many people’s experience of religion, and I had a lot of religion-related thoughts when I experienced it. I would suspect psychosis stems mainly from the amygdala, and can be brought on by lack of sleep or stress, as mine was. I think most people who believe in some form of religion with related religious experiences would fit into that 10-11%, as would most people under stress who seem to think whatever problem they face is a crisis, even though it’s only a work-related or relationship-related issue and not life or death. The brain interprets emotional issues in a very strange way at times.
I was diagnosed as bipolar as a result of that episode. Seems to be the popular diagnosis of the moment.

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