Psychosis: Genius, Insanity, and Everything Between.

By: Wallis Shimmel

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Mental disorders leading to psychosis are complex and presently not fully understood. They have been studied for millennia, but in the past decade of research, more has been learned about the disease through worldwide genetic analysis and the use of fMRI to uncover more evidence about the reasons it has not been eliminated from the human gene pool through negative selection pressure. It is possible that psychosis exists because it is evolutionarily adaptive and may be a byproduct of the cognitive advancement that has led to higher order thinking and language, which are attributes at the core of what is considered to make us human. Although masses of people have been misled by the media regarding the disease and the debilitation that it causes, the subclinical levels of the disease in the general population are much higher than most realize, and there have been historical and evolutionary advantages that have existed as a result of the disorder, which is arguably still true today in modern societies.

I learned new things that I haven't learned in other books

excerpts And notes I took from the book:

It is known that the experiences of Psychosis is triggered by psychological, physiological, and environmental forces which can result in a single psychotic episode or with more frequency10% of population worldwide or experiencing some kind of psychosis.

Psychotic episodes often occur at times when people are overwhelmed by their environments and the conditions they find themselves in. And it is a psychological reaction to stress linked to emotions and feelings created by pressures in an environments.

Stigmatized and they feel , people who have been labeled as having psychosis are generally considered to be unemployment and discriminated against by employers, this labeling leads to increased poverty emotional problems and increased unemployment

Children that have magical thoughts or that talk about fantastical things are 600% likely that they will have a mental illness in the futureGenetics,

Environmental and drug-interaction can all lead to psychosis.

If you are creative and have academic Genius, you at least five times more likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder

Everything you wanted to know about psychosis...

In-depth explanation of psychosis. Lots of statistics. My big takeaway is that people with the gene for psychosis, who do not go on to display any signs, are often geniuses. Hmmm…who knew?