As I said in another thread, visual hallucinations (without intoxication) are certainly a thing, but they are quite rarely associated with schizophrenia. There is far, far more to the condition than hallucinations or even psychosis more generally, but hallucinations are most commonly auditory

It’s not good for a doctor to be your best friend. It doesn’t seem any LLM is capable of that emotional distance.

WhatsApp is the “best” Meta app by far. It does just offer an easy, secure way of contacting people using their phone number, through text, voice, images, video.

None of their other apps come close. It doesn’t even look like a Meta product to me.

What makes WhatsApp superior to Telegram and/or Signal?

Meta acquired WhatsApp, thats why its the best

As the other user pointed out, it definitely stands out among other product acquisitions.

They acquired instagram too, and somehow they transformed that into the same sort of shithole as modern Facebook...

With lawyers like these, …

Read Careless People it tells you all you need to know.

They’ll be sold software to correct the damage.

The acts of the government being wrong in an upsetting amount of cases would be a big reason.

The overall field of visual paraperception is very interesting. You have Charles Bonnet Syndrome as described, and other really interesting phenomena like blindsight and complex visual agnosias, and then Anton-Babinski anosognosia where a patient IS blind but confabulates their visual field and maintains they can see!

I started reading into this from my interest in neuropsychiatry, but what is most interesting is that visual hallucinations are really quite rare in the schizophrenic population. Most visual hallucinations, it seems, have nothing to do with mental illness.

also, if you are blind from birth or go blind within a year of birth you won't develop schizophrenia. those folk are completely absent in the population.

Great point. I forgot about that one. It’s a very interesting observation and I’ve never been able to square it with my other reading into SCZ

For my two cents, I asked what my friend was seeing and he said “tin foil”. No elves - quite disappointing - but he enjoyed it

The elusive tin foil elves, what a lucky find!

The mind and body are always in sync somewhat, even when under great stress like that. Anticholinergics at high doses act almost mechanistically on the PNS to create the parasthesia/formication on/under one’s skin. I think the visual perception of the insects is in that case secondary to the tactile sensation.

That is quite characteristically distinct to the “endogenous” appearance of other figures when using serotonergics, that almost certainly arise from intra CNS activity

I think the most important part of being antisocial is the ulterior motive for their hostility and refusal to situate themselves in an equitable or respectful social framework, which is invariably benefit to oneself. The type of benefit that an anti-social person seeks out is probably not like the usual suspects, though.