Sefer Hamidos (Bitachon chapter 4) G d has made material things so enticing to motivate man to the tremendous efforts necessary to obtain them. Without this enticement, man would simply produce the minimum amount of food to exist and nothing more… Therefore those things which require greater effort to produce are viewed as more desirable than those things are readily available. Thus we see that babies are viewed as more precious than older children. As the effort needed to raise the child decreases as he grows so does his preciousness… Nevertheless G d left it up to each person to decide for himself what he would devote himself to in his lifetime. Bereishis Rabbah (17:7): If a person merits he will devote himself to Torah but if he doesn’t merit he will devote himself to the physical world. So while it is true that without those who struggle in the mundane world it would be desolate but why should you be the crazy one? There is before you the vast Torah more precious than diamonds of greater value than gold…
Just remember: schizophraenics think people who can't hear the voices are the crazy ones.
ReplyDeleteReally Source? Never heard this claim before
DeleteLearned this from a psych professors when I was in school.
DeleteMy question was: since I now know the symptoms of psychosis, if I started hearing voices, would I believe they were real or would I think "Hey, I learned about this in school, these are auditory hallucations!"?
His answer was about insight. Insight controls your interpretations of personal experiences. In this case, a schizophraenic's insight is, as part of the disease, warped. His mind will tell him "Sure, other people hearing voices is crazy but the ones I'm hearing are real!" Even thought it's illogical, it's part of the altered thought process. A further development is the delusion that, since the voices are real, your not hearing them is a problem.