Imagine if you got on a plane and the pilot was on the spectrum. Then they had to get a new pilot, not because the pilot wasn't skilled and talented enough to fly the plane, but—because of his autism—the laws of thermodynamics wouldn't work in such a way that the...
Great comment on a thread on the Ex-Christian subreddit asking why Christians are so uptight about Mental Health treatment: Because a mental illness is essentially an illness of the consciousness, which is what people probably mean when they talk about a soul. So in...
pointing to Jesus in defense of Christianity is like pointing to the product packaging in defense of a product's quality when you admit you're suicidal to someone you want that relationship generally kills itself (don't lean against your invisible cage in a way that...
"He saw himself as a scientific materialist; he believes that metaphor—the brain as a computer—has done more to increase the number of atheists than anything by Darwin." This is a quote from a schizophrenic programmer who wrote his own sixteen color operating system...
the mentally healthy can take religion a kernel of crazy stuff with a shell of rationality but those of us mentally ill eat through the shell and cannot handle the kernel I don't choose what to believe the evidence chooses for me Listened to an amazing Blind Hour...
I feel the darkness growing stronger. As you cram light down my throat. - Pedro the Lion I honestly think religion unfairly stigmatizes people who do not have a good relationship with their emotions. They guilt us for being bitter or hard hearted. I ask the...
To me, God is indistinguishable from mania. People generally don't find God through reading arguments, they find God because they have a feeling of peace and warmth wash over them. I have definitely had that when I'm manic. I know it's all chemicals. If we had a...
Pretend you are a creating a character for some kind of RPG video game. You have a fixed amount to spend on a set of character attributes (for example, speed, attack, shields). At this first level you don't have too much to spend so you have to make sacrifices, your...
This forum post (I believe from the PatientsLikeMe forum) is the piece of writing that has had the most influence over me in the past seven years or so. How do you incorporate a sense of spirituality in your treatment if you do and if don’t why ? I’ve worked on this...
You are at a beautiful beach at high tide. Then the tide recedes and you see a ton of garbage that has sunk to the bottom. That's the way I feel about the interplay of my pathologies, The negative symptoms of my bipolar have made my autism spectrum symptoms more...