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    My Punished Mind to Yours: My Memoir to Manifesto of Psychosis
    My Punished Mind to Yours: My Memoir to Manifesto of Psychosis
    My Punished Mind to Yours: My Memoir to Manifesto of Psychosis
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    My Punished Mind to Yours: My Memoir to Manifesto of Psychosis

    By David C. Boyles

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    Seventeen years ago, April, 2001, my life changed permanently with my hospitalization and diagnosis of Bi-polar and Schizophrenia (Schizo-Affective). My personal experience is empirical evidence that experiences with God are a product and manifestation of the brain from psychosis.

    I know this topic is controversial, but without controversy there can be no change toward the greater understanding of our place in this existence. Because this paradigm shift is so desperately needed, in our antiquated and superstitious society; I hope my story can make a contribution to neuroscience's evolving view of God's origin and personal experiences in the brain from mental illness.

    I hope, not pray, that my book will change the world by saving souls from their psychosis!

    I am surviving society's psychosis by taking one pill a day to keep God away!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 30, 2018
    ISBN9781543932560
    My Punished Mind to Yours: My Memoir to Manifesto of Psychosis

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      My Punished Mind to Yours - David C. Boyles

      day.

      INTRODUCTION

      The first time that hospital report was read to me, I was sitting in the nurse’s office in VA Beach. It was a month or so after I had been stabilized from my first relapse. I had a hard time comprehending it as I nodded in agreement that is was 99% accurate. A year and a half later, I went back to the hospital and signed for my rights to my own personal copy. When I finally had it in my hands, I still couldn’t read it thoroughly without anxiety and thought blocking.

      There is a lot of stigma and misunderstanding about mental illness in our society. There have been many times that I have wanted to openly talk about my problem to others to give them an insight to something they may never have heard about or understood correctly. I have written this book to clarify the reality of what it means to have a mental condition and what the symptoms were and are like.

      The diagnosis bipolar and schizophrenia came into my life in April of 2001, at the age of 31.

      When I asked the Doctors why, they couldn’t give me an explanation that made any sense to me at the time. I was told, Why does someone develop diabetes or cancer?

      These unfortunate illnesses just happen. It’s a part of life.

      This is my memoir of a sequence of events during a time frame of over several weeks being in a state of euphoria. But then my elation turned into persecution from God for having questioned the Bible. I went from being in heaven one week, to thinking that I was dying the next. My mind took me on a journey that is explained by science; but is, ironically, a part of religion, which is proven in my Manifesto. It took away over a year from my life, until I was medicinally stabilized and then able to finally accept the condition and move on with my life. I never expected this horrible, life-altering experience.

      EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

      People whose family members have schizophrenia developed the following list of warning signs. Many behaviors described are within the range of normal responses to situations. Yet families sense—even when symptoms are mild—that behavior is unusual; that the person is not the same.

      The number and severity of these symptoms differ from person to person—although almost everyone mentions noticeable social withdrawal. The italicized words are what happened to me:

      Hearing and seeing things that aren’t there

      Deterioration of personal hygiene

      Depression

      Bizarre behavior

      Irrational statements

      Sleeping excessively or inability to sleep

      Social withdrawal, isolation, and reclusiveness

      Shift in basic personality

      Unexpected hostility

      Deterioration of social relationships

      Hyperactivity or inactivity—or alternating between the two

      Inability to concentrate or to cope with minor problems

      Extreme pre-occupation with religion

      Excessive writing without meaning

      Indifference

      Dropping out of activities—or out of life in general

      Forgetting things

      Extreme reactions to criticism

      Inability to express joy

      Inability to cry, or excessive crying

      Inappropriate laughter

      Unusual sensitivity to stimuli (noise, light, colors, textures)

      Drug or alcohol abuse

      Fainting

      Strange posturing

      Refusal to touch persons or objects; wearing gloves, etc.

      Cutting oneself; threats of self-mutilation

      Staring without blinking—or blinking incessantly

      Peculiar use of words or odd language structures

      Sensitivity and irritability when touched by others

      DSM-IV CRITERIA

      Bipolar disorder has its own set of symptoms. It is characterized by an alternating pattern of emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). But a few are similar to schizophrenia, in its severest cases.

      In the Manic phase, the signs and symptoms include:

      Feelings of euphoria, extreme optimism and inflated self-esteem

      Rapid speech, racing thoughts, agitation and increased physical activity

      Poor judgment and recklessness

      Difficulty sleeping

      Tendency to be easily distracted

      Inability to concentrate

      Extreme irritability

      In the Depression phase, the signs and symptoms include:

      Persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt or hopelessness

      Disturbances in sleep and appetite

      Fatigue and loss of interest in your daily activities

      Difficulty in concentrating

      Recurring thoughts of suicide

      ONSET OF EUPHORIA IN FLORIDA

      Before the breakdown, I could have been very easily described as an idiosyncratic person. I was very eccentric to most people who knew me and met me. I was a heavy drinker in my 20s. I was obsessed with the UFO/Alien Abduction phenomenon. I had been pretty much ever since high school. Lifting weights (working out) had been a main hobby of mine too. I was always very shy and had a hard time associating with others.

      Shortly after the New Year, in 2001, was the onset of the condition. I was living in St. Augustine, Florida, and was in a relationship with my girlfriend of over 2 years.

      The first voice that intruded into my perception was when I was riding my motorcycle with my helmet on. As I was riding, to my left a loud shout scared me. It scared me to make my body jerk. I thought another motorcyclist had yelled at me. When I looked to my left, nobody was there. I just shook my head in not understanding what happened and kept on riding.

      I began reading self-help books, reminiscing about my very early childhood.

      Memories of fear and confusion were mostly on my mind. With my girlfriend at the time, we were talking a lot about the things that were on my mind concerning my relationship with my real father who died when I was 8. I kept reading self-help books. I wasn’t satisfied completely. Was there more to read? I started to be obsessive and over-analytical about the reading I was doing. My views and feelings about living changed for the better. I was having what I labeled a spiritual awakening for how good it felt to understand a little more about what I never thought through thoroughly about the first 8 years of my life.

      When my emotions started to amplify, I immediately labeled myself as being blessed. I turned to religion/faith for answers. But I wasn’t getting the answers I was expecting. Watching church shows became an obsession. My mind was full of so many thoughts and views of what life is really about, that I began to write a book. I began writing about my views on the societal systems around me. But it emphasized mostly on religion. It was a different kind of book, meaning the exact opposite of the way things were in my view. I was bashing religion/faith for not telling me what I was experiencing; because the religious leaders on the TV were telling me to put everything into God’s hands, to not figure things out for myself. I had a hard time accepting that. I was experiencing so many emotions on my own from all the reading I was obsessively doing. And for over a week or more, I continuously watched church channels and was writing my book at the same time.

      Before I got my expected lay off from my job, I was already slipping into the euphoria of the condition. I was telling those close to me how great I was feeling. My girlfriend was obviously the first. She loved it of course seeing me in such a great mood. I then labeled it as my heart opened up. I felt pressured to keep talking about how good I was feeling. My thoughts were very dominating.

      When I went to visit with my Grandmother, I couldn’t keep to myself about how good I was feeling. I would talk about my book that I was writing. I spoke of all the ideas in my head. I dominated most of the conversations. She complimented me for talking the way I did. I had so many things to say. I was so "deep" philosophically and spiritually.

      I wanted to read the Bible to try and understand what I had never read before. I was feeling so good that I wanted to know God. When my girlfriend and I read the first few pages of the Bible together, we questioned just about everything we read. We got confused and actually disturbed. A day or two later I remembered the questions that aroused in me from reading the Bible that I decided to read it by myself. I was confused at: the order of creation of man and then woman; the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, the shame and covering of nakedness and then being punished, and God having no regard for Cain’s offering. Then the flood was inflicted, and soon after, the tower of Babel incident. God was mad and kept taking away from Humanity. The more I read the more confused I got. My whole concept of what I had always believed about God being all good and loving started to change. I never made it past the first several pages. I started to over-analyze the concept of inside out from the word seed being used in the scriptures. I kept breaking things down and questioning. The continuous covering of nakedness was puzzling me. While I kept trying to make sense of my bewilderment from reading, a profound revelation came to me while reading over again the Adam and Eve incident of eating the forbidden fruit. When I re-read the words and they saw themselves, the interpreting meaning that came to my mind was—know thyself. Right when that came to mind, I went into a trance: my heart started pounding fast and hard, I began wailing excessively and loudly, and my thoughts raced religiously (literally). I had a feeling that was from beyond my control. The episode lasted briefly, and from that moment on, I believed I had found God.

      Now that I had been touched by God, and already being euphoric, it was wonderful. I went down to the beach one afternoon and just stood there on the rocks and observed life. I was one with life. Everything made sense. I became so elated that I almost started to cry, and right in front of the other people nearby. I wanted to scream out loud, Isn’t life beautiful?

      I began calling my brother in VA Beach constantly. I wasn’t able to hold a conversation without crying,

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