Nothing comforts me when I'm anxious the way writing does, and I have never been so anxious as I have been in Vancouver. ~ Michael David Crawford, September 2006
 |  | Kuro5hin's MrHanky suggested that my notoriously one-dimensional writing style may be a symptom of my schizoaffective disorder. In fact it is a symptom, and I have known that for several years. It's a common topic of discussion when I see my doctors, as well as with my wife Bonita. But you have absolutely no idea of the profound extent to which it is a symptom.
It is a symptom, but not of my schizoaffective disorder. Psychiatrists describe mental illness as having five axes of diagnosis; schizoaffective disorder is my biological or biochemical axis.
The biological axis diagnoses are usually genetic in origin, although there is some reason to believe that schizophrenia may also be caused by influenza infection while the future schizophrenic is in his mother's womb. Recent research indicates it might also be caused by childhood exposure to the same parasite commonly found in cat feces that causes toxoplasmosis.
The biological axis illnesses can often be treated but never cured.
There is also a neurotic axis that is always of psychological origin, usually some kind of unresolved childhood trauma. It can also result from adult trauma such as fighting in a war.
(c)2006, Michael David Crawford |
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I am not in the slightest bit comforted by my fellow Vancouverite's admission above.
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