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The case of
"Soup"
(Schizophrenia, secret sin)
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The case of "Soup"
Biopsychiatric labels DSM-5
Schizophrenia, depression
Checklist Behaviours DSM-7
Some unknown secret moral sin, Deception, lying
Insights MMPI-7
Quick Pick EDS-7.1
Insanity
Self-disablement EDS-7.2
Committed to an asylum
Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3
No. Never ingested opium. Although before the era of prescribed psychiatric drugs (1950's) which create chemical imbalances in the brain, at this point in history Opium was the only drug widely used to create chemical imbalances in the brains of the insane.
Benefits EDS-7.4
Smokescreen for secret sin that is soon to be discovered: EDS-7.4.10
Avoid deserved rebuke, criticism, shame: EDS-7.4.11
Self-punishment for personal failures or to ease a guilty conscience: EDS-7.4.12
Victimhood: EDS-7.4.13
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 Domino Problem Transference (DPT) EDS-7.7.4.DPT
Law of Annoyance Toleration Threshold (ATT) EDS-7.7.5.ATT
Law of Habitual Smokescreen Decoy (HSD) EDS-7.7.10.HSD
Law of Locus Pentaphasic Transmutation (LPT) EDS-7.7.11.LPT
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
Secret sin of adultery soon to be discovered
Ask a Child
I get real scared of a spanking when I do something wrong too. EDS-7.7.12.PMO
5 years later EDS-7.7.LPT
He repented or felt he had punished himself enough and returned to normal life.
The case of "Soup"
Philippe Pinel 1805 AD: A catholic becomes schizophrenic in response to the
persecution of the Catholic Church in France and goes on a hunger strike
and cured with the threat of torture if he doesn't eat.
A young religious enthusiast, who was exceedingly affected by the abolition
of the catholic religion in France, [the French Revolution, 1789 AD],
became insane. After the usual treatment at the Hotel Dieu, he was
transferred to the Asylum de Bicetre. His misanthropy [hatred] was not to
be equalled. His thoughts dwelled perpetually upon the torments of the
other world; from which he founded his only chance of escaping, upon a
conscientious adoption of the abstinences and mortifications of the ancient
anchorites [monks living in isolation etc]. At length, he refused
nourishment altogether; and, on the fourth day after that unfortunate
resolution was formed, a state of langour succeeded, which excited
considerable apprehensions for his life. Kind remonstrances and pressing
invitations proved equally ineffectual. He repelled, with rudeness, the
services of the attendants, rejected, with the utmost pertinacity, some
soup that was placed before him, and demolished his bed (which was of
straw) in order that he might lie upon the boards. How was such a perverse
train of ideas to be stemmed or counteracted? The excitement of terror
presented itself as the only resourse. For this purpose, Citizen Pussin
appeared one night at the door of his chamber, and, with fire darting from
his eyes, and thunder in his voice, commanded a group of domestics, who
were armed with strong and loudly clanking chains, to do their duty. But
the ceremony was artfully suspended;-the soup was placed before the
maniac, and strict orders were left him to eat it in the course of the
night, on pains of the severest punishment. He was left to his own,
reflections. The night was spent (as he afterwards informed me) in a state
of the most distressing hesitation, whether to incur the present
punishment, or the distant but, still more dreadful torments of the world
to come, After an internal struggle of many hours, the idea of the present
evil gained the ascendancy, and he determined to take the soup. From that
time, he submitted, without difficulty, to a restorative system of regimen.
His sleep and strength gradually returned; his reason recovered its empire;
and, after the manner above related, he escaped certain death. It was
during his convalescence, that he mentioned to me the perplexities and
agitations which be endured during the night of the experiment. In the
preceding cases of insanity, we trace the happy effects of intimidation,
without severity; of oppression, without violence; and of triumph, without
outrage. How different from the system of treatment, which is yet adopted
in too many hospitals, where the domestics and keepers are permitted to use
any violence that the most wanton caprice, or the most sanguinary cruelty
may dictate. In the writings of the ancients, and especially of Celsus, a
sort of intermediate and conditional mode of treatment is recommended,
founded, in the first instance, upon a system of lenity and forbearance;
and when that method failed, upon corporal and physical punishments, such
as confinement, chains, flogging, spare diet, &c. (p) Public and private
mad-houses, in more modern times [ie. 1806 AD], have been conducted on
similar principles. (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. Of course, the only reason Pinel's threats of
torture worked were because his patients believed the threats. If they knew
it was a hollow threat, they would not comply. This further underscores the
fact that all behaviour is modified by freewill choice of the insane, not
treatments, drugs, shocks or torture.
Here is a man who felt guilty and worthy of damnation for some unrepented
sin he had committed, who chose to become psychotic and punishes himself
through a hunger strike and harsh treatment of his body by sleeping on wood
rather than the straw mattress. At a time in history when torture was
routinely used to motivate schizophrenics back to normal life, Pinel took
the kinder, gentler approach of the threat of torture as a first option. He
staged an act outside the insane man's cell where the staff rattled chains
and threatened violence to the man. Pinel, however, intervenes with a bowl
of soup and the threat that if the man doesn't eat the food by morning, he
will suffer torture. Pinel "cured" the man because after this, the man
submitted his will and restored his weak and over tired body and mind to
normal health. Pinel realized that the man's schizophrenia was a solution
to his fear of eternal torture in hell. Pinel wisely knew that if the man's
behaviour could be modified by the threat of eternal torture, that he could
also be motivate by a threat of torture in the morning if he did not eat
his soup. The truth is that a sick, tired and mal-nourished body will
contribute to irrational thinking in the same way sleep deprivation does.
Today, Pinel's method would clear out half the mental patients in the lock
down ward... except the asylum inmates know there is no real threat of
torture. If they were tortured, or even deprived of a single privilege,
they would sue. However his moral treatment worked only if the patient
believed the threat was real. If they did not believe the threat, they
would never have chosen to modify their own behaviour. This underscores
that schizophrenia is a moral choice, not a disease.
If Pinel had access to the "Clinical Textbook of Biblical Psychiatry", he
would have immediately recognized that the reason for the insanity was
absurd and to be rejected. Pinel should have said, "It is ridiculous for
you to tell me that you are driven insane just because the Catholic church
is banished from France. Christians view this as persecution, not a reason
to become disabled and psychotic. So obviously there is some other reason
for this behaviour choice, like some secret sin you have committed. So come
clean and stop wasting everyone's time and money, and tell me what sin has
driven you mad?" After acting insulted, getting angry, being indigent and a
few lying decoy answers, he would have finally confessed.
The key is that Christians don't fear hell when others persecute them. When
a Christian is persecuted they do not get depressed, they rejoice! The only
reason a Christian will be driven mad in fear of hell, is because they know
they have sinned and are headed to hell. Sinners who need rebuke, instead,
act the "sick part" and garner sympathy.
Benefits from behaviour: This illustrates the Law of Narcissistic Behaviour
Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Smokescreen for secret sin that is soon to be discovered:
EDS-7.4.10.Completely absent from Pinel's account from 1805 AD, is the
obvious fact that the man was fabricating his insanity to hide a secret
sin, likely sexual in nature.
Avoid deserved rebuke, criticism, shame: EDS-7.4.11. Going mad
because your faith is under attack is rather noble and praiseworthy. "Look
how much it bothers him because his church was kicked out of France! I wish
my faith made me care that much!"
3. Self-punishment for personal failures or to ease a guilty
conscience: EDS-7.4.12. His moral failure bothered him and his hunger
strike and ascetic life in the asylum was a way of saying, "See God! I am
punishing myself for my sin!" After he felt he had punished himself enough
in the asylum, he returned to normal life.
4. Victimhood: EDS-7.4.13. In a classic case of victimhood, the
sinful man who knew he was destined for hell, made himself out to be a
victim of the French King's edict attaching his faith.
Diagnostic laws that are seen illustrated in the case of "soup":
The man calculated that the cost of being labeled insane was worth
the benefit of avoiding his sin. This illustrates the Law of Derivative
Personal Benefit (DPB) EDS-7.7.2.DPB
Imagine the trouble this sinner caused everyone. This illustrates
the Law of Domino Problem Transference (DPT) EDS-7.7.4.DPT
His behaviour became so annoying that his relatives finally found
relief by sending him to the asylum. This illustrates the Law of Annoyance
Toleration Threshold (ATT) EDS-7.7.5.ATT
His schizophrenia was a decoy to his unrepented sin. This
illustrates the Law of Habitual Smokescreen Decoy (HSD) EDS-7.7.10.HSD
At the beginning of 5 years he was in an asylum. At the end, he was
out, showing that he really didn't want to be there. This illustrates the
Law of Locus Pentaphasic Transmutation (LPT) EDS-7.7.11.LPT
While atheists may think persecution will drive a Christian insane
for fear of hell, to the faithful, this is utterly ridiculous and must be
rejected. It simply doesn't pass the sniff test. A child would say, "I get
all scared of my dad coming home if I disobey mommy. I wonder what he did
that he is all worried his is going to get a spanking when daddy gets
home?" This illustrates the Law of Pediatric Multifarious Obfuscation (PMO)
EDS-7.7.12.PMO
7. His psychotic behaviour, self-denial and hunger strike are all
what you would predict of a man who, like the warthog, knows he is headed
for a huge shock on judgement day. This illustrates the Law of Anticipatory
Warthog Psychosis (AWP) EDS-7.7.13.AWP
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