Yes sure, I do have doubts sometimes. When I have these doubts, I remember for example that phone call my mother gave me more than 20 years ago, when she said (in French) that "les gens lire dans tes pensées" (people can read your mind). Also, I seem to hear "telepathic voices in my head" (I often talk with them), and various noises coming from outside (car and ambulance horns, even birds), that often seem correlated with my thoughts (or, at least, this is the impression I have). All of this is so strong, telling me there is no telepathy is like telling a fish there is no water in the sea.
What you went through seems to have been serious, Donn. However, the difference with my case is that allergy is fairly well understood by Modern Medicine, unlike telepathy, which is kind of a "dark area" in modern science. In that respect, in spite of the seriousness of your symptoms, you were perhaps luckier than me.
This is a classic example of failure to recognise a random distribution coupled with confirmation bias.
Actually, I don't remember that a doctor, or a psychiatrist ever told me "you have schizophrenia", or "you are a schizophrenic" (now I have to say I don't remember all the things that psychiatrists told me). I do remember though my first visit to a psychiatrist, when I was a graduate student in Physics at the University of Minnesota, in 1985, after I began to have, for the first time in my life, the impression I was "telepathic", that people knew many of my thoughts. It seems to me it happened at the Boynton Health Center. The psychiatrist, an old man with white hair (perhaps an underpaid university doctor) told me angrily "It's a fantasy, it's a fantasy...". Then I saw another psychiatrist, outside of the university, whose name had been given to me by a girl who was, like me, a Physics student, and that psychiatrist never denied that I was "telepathic" (he was friendlier). He did, however, give me Haldol, an antipsychotic medication, he said it was a great medication which had been developed in Belgium (I am from Belgium). I took it, and I found no effect on my telepathic impressions, I wondered if this was just a little sugar, with no psychological effect.
Well, perhaps I can point out that my total number of posts on this forum is about the quarter of yours.
" There is no need to accept the water when you are not a fish."
I herby declare that I have officially stolen that phrase
You have missed the elephant in the room. "Number 1" and "Number 2" are euphemisms for bodily functions and these bodily functions are euphemisms for expressing negative opinions about you or your test. Therefore, they drew responses away from your choice but only because of the coincidence that you didn't choose one of the bodily function numbers.
I differ here. I think he's having a very real medical issue. Look, I'm an uneducated twerp, so I don't know anything for a fact, but mental malfunction, of large enough scale, is more than imagined — it's lived and experienced. Least, it seems that way to me.
Ha. It wrote itself.
I take on board what you said, and apologise for what now seems like an insensitive comment made by myself.
You are correct, I worded it wrongly.
