When people mention schizophrenia, if we disregard all pejorative meanings, they really mean, according to the Webster Student's Dictionary:
"A mental illness where thoughts, feelings, and action are all disconnected".
Do they mean feelings of sensation, that there is a great rift between my thinking mind and the sensational reality that life is not concerned with thought?
Do they mean a moral rift, that there are objective feelings out there in the world that I must be a dunce not to see its overarching truth, that my mind should bow to the formalities of a world that does not declare to know the answers?
Or are the psychiatrists claiming to know what my thoughts are, in a non-literal manner, and further inferring from a critical distance that I ought to have feelings for these great thoughts, or thoughts for these great feelings? As if, once being true, they could be anything other than what they are.
And finally, now that I have considered the supposed rift, or criticism for a rift, between thought and feeling, what remains is action.
To embrace action as though it were the solution without adopting any moral agenda is to play the role of seducer into mischief.
Therefore, either there is an immoral bond between a schizophrenic's thoughts and feelings and his actions, or we must accept that it is his conditions, milieu, in short, his world, that is troubled.
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