Body: | The case of "Lovesick" (Schizophrenia from love lost)
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The case of
"Lovesick"
(Schizophrenia from love lost)
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The case of "Lovesick"
Biopsychiatric labels DSM-5
Schizophrenia
Checklist Behaviours DSM-7
Depression, delusion, violence, uncontrolled anger, rage, lazy
Insights MMPI-7
Quick Pick EDS-7.1
Sources of personal trauma: I was dumped,
Insanity
Self-disablement EDS-7.2
Not working but lives in asylum
Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3
Benefits EDS-7.4
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4
Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5
Control over others: EDS-7.4.6
Revenge: EDS-7.4.8
Monetary EDS-7.5
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Annoyance Scale EDS-7.6
High
Diagnostic Laws EDS-7.7
Law of Narcissistic Behaviour Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Law of Derivative Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
Law of Pediatric Multifarious Obfuscation (PMO) EDS-7.7.12.PMO
Law of Anticipatory Warthog Psychosis (AWP) EDS-7.7.13.AWP
Determine the Problem
He was suffering from a broken heart from love.
Ask a Child
He is upset about something EDS-7.7.12.PMO
5 years later EDS-7.7.LPT
The case of "Lovesick"
Philippe Pinel, 1806 AD: A young man is jilted by a woman who then commits
a crime, ends up first in jail, then the asylum
In Vendemaire, (Sep. and Oct.) of the year 3, a young man, of twenty-two
years of age, confined in the prisons of Bicetre, was brought to the
infirmary of the same establishment. He was exceedingly dejected and silent
during my first visit to him. As I found him free from fever, I merely
prescribed a light diet, persuaded that his disorder consisted in great
depression and distress of mind. On the succeeding days I observed but
little change in the state of his symptoms. He still persisted in his
silence, even when questions were put to him. He sometimes sighed deeply,
and moaned piteously. He had little appetite, no sleep, and, according to
the report of the attendants, was subject in the night to nervous
agitations of extreme violence. He frequently got out of bed, walked about
the ward, and was obliged to be reconducted to his couch, as if out of his
mind. Two months after his admission into the infirmary, and during one of
my visits, he advanced with an air of wildness, and forcibly seized one of
the attendants with the intention apparently of throwing him down. His
looks were wild and fixed. He wished to be informed relative to some
particulars connected with a certain female of his acquaintance. He sighed
profoundly. Such was the sensibility of his epigastric region [tummy], that
he could scarcely bear the weight of his bed-clothes. Being desired to
ascertain the nature of his disorder, I felt no hesitation in pronouncing
his state to be that of decided insanity, consequent either upon
disappointed love, or upon the depression of mind occasioned by his
confinement [as a criminal], or, perhaps, upon the united influence of
those two causes. His conveyance to a lunatic asylum was, at length,
decided upon, and all judicial proceedings against him were withdrawn. (A
Treatise on Insanity, Philippe Pinel, 1806 AD)
Discussion:
In 1806 AD, Philippe Pinel, doctor for the Bicetre Asylum in France, gets
our gold star of achievement of all the major mad house doctors. He used
"moral therapy" that merely threatened torture. Unlike all the other mad
houses, Pinel refused to torture and use vomits, blistering and
bloodletting of the day. Pinel correctly understanding that insanity was a
spiritual problem, not an organic/physical problem with the brain. Instead
of drugs, he cured insanity by "moral treatments". "My faith in
pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at
length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral
remedies had completely failed" Philippe Pinel would rise up today and
oppose the chemical psychiatrists who believe insanity is a chemical
imbalance of the brain, that insanity is incurable. He would object to
labeling the insane as biological misfits for life because it unnecessarily
robs the soul of all hope.
The prison at Bicetre was like that from a horror movie and a horrible
place to be. In 1788 AD a portion of the Bicetre was torn down and 18 pit
style dungeons were built in its place. The prisoners were chained to the
walls and they were fed through a small grill in the roof, though which
came the only light or fresh air. (The fabrication of virtue, Robin Evans,
1982 AD)
The young man's crime that landed him in jail is not disclosed, but it was
clearly in response to being dumped by the girl he loved. Perhaps he went
on a rage and did property damage. Perhaps he began to stock the girl or
threatened her. After he landed himself in jail, he chose to become
depressed to the point he was sent to the asylum. Such depression is rather
predicable given the stupidity of his choice of behaviours that landed him
in jail. However Pinel give two etiologies for his insanity: "either upon
disappointed love, or upon the depression of mind occasioned by his
confinement". Pinel is not sure if the man went insane when he was chained
to the wall of the jail dungeon as a criminal or because he got dumped by
the woman he loved. The point for us, is that either way, Pinel certainly
knew it was no a biological matter like a chemical imbalance in the brain.
We can be certain that he was not fabricating the insanity to escape
prosecution, because after the criminal charges were dropped, he remained
in the asylum.
Benefits from behaviour: This illustrates the Law of Narcissistic Behaviour
Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4. He was avoiding the fact
that the girl dumped him so he chose to become depressed and become insane.
Sympathy: EDS-7.4.5. Perhaps if the girl saw how she hurt him, she
might offer sympathy.
Control over others: EDS-7.4.6. He was hoping that if the girl did
offer him sympathy, that she would be under his control to manipulate.
Revenge: EDS-7.4.8. He wanted to say to the girl. See what you have
done to me! I hope you feel as bad as you made me feel.
Diagnostic laws that are seen illustrated in the case of "Lovesick":
He calculated that the cost of being insane was worth the benefit of
maybe getting the girl back. This illustrates the Law of Derivative
Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
While doctors would diagnose him with numerous and complex diseases,
he knew all along that he wanted to restore the relationship with his
girlfriend. He would disagree with any medical explanation for his
behaviour. This may explain why he went on a wild rage of anger during one
of Pinel's visits. Nobody had comprehended the real cause of his delusions
and everything they said was stupid and wrong to him. And it was! However
with Pinel's visit, the man finally told him what the real problem was, by
asking about the welfare of his girlfriend. It was only then that Pinel
realized the man was suffering from "disappointment in love". The man's
deceptions and failure to disclose this earlier, are his own fault. This
illustrates the Law of Pediatric Multifarious Obfuscation (PMO)
EDS-7.7.12.PMO
3. He was walking down a path that led to him fully internalizing
the fact he was dumped. Instead of crossing that electrified line of
acceptance, he chose, like the warthog, to not cross the fence but stamp
around and squeal in insanity. This illustrates the Law of Anticipatory
Warthog Psychosis (AWP) EDS-7.7.13.AWP
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