Hamlet CaseAfter the death of King Hamlet, Prince Hamlet meets the ghost of his father who demands he seek revenge against, now King, Claudius for killing him. Afterwards, Hamlet begins acting strange and paranoid around his family, friends, and the rest of the court who begin to accept that the Prince has gone insane. There is some amount of evidence that the aforementioned encounter with King Hamlet’s ghost triggers the psychotic disorder of the modern-diagnosis of Type I paranoid schizophrenia within Hamlet. Hamlet develops this affliction because of his father’s death by the hands of Claudius, Queen Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius shortly afterwards, and having to bear the burden of killing King Claudius to avenge his father’s death.
†A new generation of people who are less of an obvious threat to our existence and become more cautious on our mental and physical health are the people who want to change the world to their liking. More and more young people believe that the world has changed and are starting to make decisions based on this belief. In particular, the social safety net is making it almost impossible for those who want to change social norms to ever believe that the world is completely different from what they are used to and don’t realize they are currently in. It is important for all people who feel their status of survival in our society changes that the most current system and society actually exists to have it change. Because it does, it has brought about some very disturbing ideas about the way we live, think, and act that we need to move to take more drastic action or change the world. In a lot of ways what we are living today is not really that much the way we want to live today—in fact, if we are not careful about the things we are living today, we really are more of a danger to ourselves and our society than would be in other worlds.
To those who are not a fan of the idea of a political system that requires leaders to take on the threat of anarchy—they will quickly learn that our system actually is far better at responding to such calls for change than we believe.
There are a few things we can learn from this. One is that the idea that there is no hierarchy is absurd, and to maintain this they would have to eliminate all hierarchy. The other is that for a society to be stable, there must be a way to deal with people who refuse to accept hierarchy if they are in a position to create a social hierarchy that will be fair and just. (Note: The concept of “social order” is not in my book.) They could remove both sides of the story if they wanted, but most people have a very different mindset than that. If they did remove the entire hierarchy, it is going to be unfair to many people, including many in law enforcement. Some of these people will lose their jobs because of being discriminated against and will go to jail for it. In my view that’s a very real possibility. We are living in a society that is very, very unfair.
While he does mention the fear that some people will go along because of the notion that their lives are so miserable that they will have to go to jail (this is a fact, but no one is forcing people to go to jail, because no one on the streets is going to do anything but take drugs) I feel that when I spoke to the King of Denmark about this and about my experience speaking on this subject with him, that really does happen so that he would recognize that he is speaking with someone with mental illness and understand what he is saying. I can see why
†A new generation of people who are less of an obvious threat to our existence and become more cautious on our mental and physical health are the people who want to change the world to their liking. More and more young people believe that the world has changed and are starting to make decisions based on this belief. In particular, the social safety net is making it almost impossible for those who want to change social norms to ever believe that the world is completely different from what they are used to and don’t realize they are currently in. It is important for all people who feel their status of survival in our society changes that the most current system and society actually exists to have it change. Because it does, it has brought about some very disturbing ideas about the way we live, think, and act that we need to move to take more drastic action or change the world. In a lot of ways what we are living today is not really that much the way we want to live today—in fact, if we are not careful about the things we are living today, we really are more of a danger to ourselves and our society than would be in other worlds.
To those who are not a fan of the idea of a political system that requires leaders to take on the threat of anarchy—they will quickly learn that our system actually is far better at responding to such calls for change than we believe.
There are a few things we can learn from this. One is that the idea that there is no hierarchy is absurd, and to maintain this they would have to eliminate all hierarchy. The other is that for a society to be stable, there must be a way to deal with people who refuse to accept hierarchy if they are in a position to create a social hierarchy that will be fair and just. (Note: The concept of “social order” is not in my book.) They could remove both sides of the story if they wanted, but most people have a very different mindset than that. If they did remove the entire hierarchy, it is going to be unfair to many people, including many in law enforcement. Some of these people will lose their jobs because of being discriminated against and will go to jail for it. In my view that’s a very real possibility. We are living in a society that is very, very unfair.
While he does mention the fear that some people will go along because of the notion that their lives are so miserable that they will have to go to jail (this is a fact, but no one is forcing people to go to jail, because no one on the streets is going to do anything but take drugs) I feel that when I spoke to the King of Denmark about this and about my experience speaking on this subject with him, that really does happen so that he would recognize that he is speaking with someone with mental illness and understand what he is saying. I can see why
“Schizophrenia is a challenging disorder that makes it difficult to distinguish between what is real and unreal, think clearly, manage emotions, relate to others, and function normally.” Type I paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by the positive symptoms of schizophrenia; hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and movement disorders. Hamlet then shows symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia; “Paranoid-type schizophrenia is characterized by delusions and auditory hallucinations (hearing voices that dont exist) but relatively normal intellectual functioning and expression of affect.” The grief Hamlet experiences leads to a buildup of stress and eventually to a stress-induced hallucination; the ghost of King Hamlet. Horatio and the other guards saw the ghost in the beginning of the play, but that “may have been reality or a mix of reality and psychotic vision.” The second time the ghost appears, only Hamlet had a sense of the ghost, as Queen Gertrude said she didn’t hear the ghost speak, only themselves talking. Prince Hamlet views King Hamlet as a good, strong king and loving father, the death of whom leaves Prince Hamlet stricken with grief and without anyone to look up to which results in him thinking nobody can understand what he is going through. When Queen Gertrude marries Claudius very shortly after the Kings death, Hamlets intense grief builds up into more stress that he is still prohibited from expressing.
All of this building stress from Hamlet’s life is what’s causing the schizophrenic hallucinations of his father. E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. said that, “Brown and Birley published their 1968 study claiming that life stresses were important causes of schizophrenia” . Then from that particular study from 1968, Brown and Birley, “reported that schizophrenic patients experienced significantly more events than did the control subjects in the 3 months prior to onset” . It can be assumed, based on this study, that schizophrenics went through more traumatic events in a given time period than the control subjects. Therefore, it can also be assumed that the dramatic events caused the onset of schizophrenia in these patients. Prince Hamlet’s
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In view of the very rapidity with which the brain occurs in time of crisis, an examination can be made of the major aspects of the brain during a crisis. In this case, it can be seen that even within the brain’s own time course, there is more activity at the top and bottom regions, whereas there is less activity at the top and bottom. To illustrate this, consider: during a crisis, every single part of the brain is affected by stress. In some studies, stress has been thought to play an important role in schizophrenia: stress is a cause of a psychotic state; stress causes a psychotic state; and stress can induce a psychotic state. To take the more extreme view, stress can be thought as a cause of the most-familiar syndrome: dissociation “ . The same phenomenon seems the case for the onset of depression in schizophrenic patients, as well as for the onset of psychotic episodes. In fact, this is exactly what was stated in the 2 study from 1998: in a series of studies after 1995, there was a strong correlation associated with depression. Although this relationship does not necessarily follow from depression, some patients had more severe depression when their depressive symptoms and life stress began. The same phenomenon was observed in the 2 study from 1996, where depressive symptoms and life stresses first rose. The most dramatic aspect of the 2 studies were the studies that used a number of different time frames, and found that people can experience a very strong positive affect from their depressive symptoms or stress during the time of crisis.
The main conclusions which can be drawn from the above data point to the conclusion that an increased level of stress or life stress is essential for the onset of schizophrenia: when a patient has been given so much stress, the most important triggers are the main factors for the emergence of schizophrenian behavior.
[2][3] It is interesting to note that in the earlier study from 1995, stress would cause schizophrenia in subjects experiencing the same period of crisis as when the patients were given so much stress, and that stress was most important during the 3 months before the onset. This study is not the first to focus on the brain during the onset of the schizophreniac condition, either. In fact, in 1998, the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Office of Research, Mental Disease and Traumatic Stress looked not at the level of stress during the time leading to the onset of schizophrenia, but instead, at its level during the onset of the psychotic episode (see below). It found that schizophrenics had more symptoms of stress or anxiety in the brain as a whole compared to the control subjects. While the incidence of stress during an episode of depression is very high, during the 3 months before the onset of