There is something really weird about psychiatry. I have never met somebody who hasn’t had a form of OCD, for instance.

It is like everybody has every psychiatric disease, yet they express themselves in different ways during a day.

My theory is this: everybody has all psychiatric diseases for X minutes a day. The difference between people is the intensity and duration it takes to get through one state.

In practice, this means that everybody is hyper during a period of the day (ADHD), everybody has a form of very structured/rigid thinking (autism/OCD), and everybody goes through states of anxiety during a day, etc.

For what it’s worth: I don’t mean this as disrespect for people with psychiatric diseases, as if they are weaker. I suffered from a lot of mental issues myself; I know very well what can go wrong. At the height of my psychosis I thought the whole world was following me while I produced new thoughts (I am a guy with a university degree). From an outsider perspective, I see a lot of people including world leaders who clearly move through states of psychosis themselves.

I used to block a lot of emotions. I am 100% sure those ‘states’ backfired on me as psychiatric diseases. This would also explain why a lot of children who grow up in bad environments have ADHD traits. It would also explain why people who block their sexuality have more mental issues.

The whole ‘brain diseases’ idea doesn’t make any sense. It would only make sense if a person with ADHD would have the same amount of ADHD symptoms the whole day long. That’s not the case. People with ADHD also crash at times during a day.

You would also expect that other things like Alzheimer’s disease would be a straight line downwards. Yet it doesn’t work like that. People with Alzheimer’s can have good days after bad days, which is strange.

 

People are notoriously bad at recognizing the state they are in
I don’t think there are a lot of bad people. But if I move through traffic at the end of a long work day, I want to attack people. That’s because I have moved through all states during a day, and the tired me is way more prone to do bad things than when I just had my morning coffee.

 

Why you want to know this

Because the way you look at psychiatry changes radically. You start to see something as a state you can move through, instead of as a permanent brain disease.

 

Why we don't know this

Because we move through states very quickly. If you’re someone who doesn’t care about OCD, you move through that state in the blink of an eye. For you, it goes practically unnoticed.
The strange thing is that some parts of the day I feel perfectly fine, and some parts I feel like I have a brain disease. Some parts of the day are filled with crying, others with energy.