Insight -- from experience or being high-functioning, or what?

I have talked a little about insight before.

Most of the people who post on this board regularly seem to have a lot
of insight into their symptoms and know when they are sick and having
wrong thoughts.

Do you think that comes from experience, going in and out of it and
recognizing what is going on, or is it part of being high-functioning?
Do these things go together?

I don't think experience has anything to do with it personally. Just
because you've been in a car crash before doesn't mean you won't get
hurt less.

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On Aug 7, 10:56*pm, Gelly wrote:
> I have talked a little about insight before.
>
> Most of the people who post on this board regularly seem to have a lot
> of insight into their symptoms and know when they are sick and having
> wrong thoughts.
>
> Do you think that comes from experience, going in and out of it and
> recognizing what is going on, or is it part of being high-functioning?
> Do these things go together?

Just vegitate and don't worry about it! If you could become retarded
and happy or intelligent and depressed, what would you choose?

<chessucat queries>

"Gelly" <Gelly.D@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have talked a little about insight before.
>
> Most of the people who post on this board regularly seem to have a lot
> of insight into their symptoms and know when they are sick and having
> wrong thoughts.
>
> Do you think that comes from experience, going in and out of it and
> recognizing what is going on, or is it part of being high-functioning?
> Do these things go together?

I think you answered your own question. I would only add that sometimes
insight can be a symptom -as "paranoid illumination."

"Gelly" <Gelly.D@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:04bb7496-3de7-4811-8b4e-51c9404a8112@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I have talked a little about insight before.
>
> Most of the people who post on this board regularly seem to have a lot
> of insight into their symptoms and know when they are sick and having
> wrong thoughts.
>
> Do you think that comes from experience, going in and out of it and
> recognizing what is going on, or is it part of being high-functioning?
> Do these things go together?

I think it's both. Part of being high-functioning is being able to do things
like make newsgroup posts.

In news:alt.support.schizophrenia, Erik the Red
<spock_smokes@hotmail.com> posted on Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:09:29 -0700
(PDT):

> I don't think experience has anything to do with it personally. Just
> because you've been in a car crash before doesn't mean you won't get
> hurt less.

A car crash is a physical event. Experience can be had through mental
simulations, and therefore insight, and all without harm to the body.
So comparing the experience of a car crash to the experience of an
imagined event results in a mismatch of parameters.

Damaeus

On 8 aug, 04:56, Gelly <Gell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have talked a little about insight before.
>
> Most of the people who post on this board regularly seem to have a lot
> of insight into their symptoms and know when they are sick and having
> wrong thoughts.
>
> Do you think that comes from experience, going in and out of it and
> recognizing what is going on, or is it part of being high-functioning?
> Do these things go together?

Nowadays with the new meds since 2000, I rather think most sz
have lost their symptoms (maybe 2/3) and the side affects are not
so disabling anymore as in the time of the older medications.
The people I meet in society with a mental health background are
almost all high-functioning.

There is always a difference in iq in various mental patients.
But to say that people with a high iq are more high functioning
that others would be wrong. I think high functioning is feeling good
about yourself and being able to perform the daily day tasks without
any problems.

However there are people, in institutions for instance, I visit an
mental health institution quite frequently because of my wife her
health problems. I see people there that are deffinately not high
functioning and they are not able to live in society too, They
are institutionalized. They are 1/3 of the sz population.

Berty