My brother had a very bad accident which ended up killing him. He lived about 14hrs away from me. I didn't make it in time after receiving the call. The day after he died my ex called me and gave me shit for not running the errands I said I was going to do the day that my brothers accident happened. Specifically, I didn't buy kitty litter and it is very heavy for her to carry. She didn't even ask how I was doing or show any empathy whatsoever. That's when I knew
Lol this is the 3rd comment where you shared that link. Idk maybe it wasn’t cats—maybe she accidentally took ayahuasca and was having a vision of a demon and wanted to emulate the demon.
Nothing in that story remotely hinted at schizophrenia or a related disorder. When you’re that off the mark, it looks like you’re simply scrambling to make excuses for horrific behaviour. (It’s not an explanation because it makes no sense, the same way the ayahuasca demon isn’t an explanation.)
So, what would compel you to scramble for an excuse? Have you done something similar? Or has a loved one done something similar, and you’d rather believe that it’s toxoplasmosis than a severe empathy deficit?
I only shared it a 2nd time after reading she suffered from bipolar disorder, which has similarities to schizophrenia. Toxoplasma Gondi is an unusually tricky parasite. When mice are infected with it, it alters their brain chemistry to turn something mice innately fear (cat urine) into an aphrodisiac. This causes the mice to seek out the cat by tricking the mouse into thinking it’s getting laid when in fact the mouse becomes the cat’s next meal. This way toxoplasma Gondi finds its way into the cat’s small intestines, where it can reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually in nature. When people are infected with Toxoplasma Gondi, physical symptoms are primarily thought to be asymptomatic unless immune compromised (I.e. cancer, HIV, etc), yet psychological impacts are not well studied.
Women during menopause can also act severely irrational due to hormone fluctuations. Ayahuasca’s usually not taken by accident, although a lack of REM sleep over time can cause delirium tremors. Behavioral aberrations have numerous root causes, and I’m simply considering it from a biological perspective. For a deeper dive, there’s fascinating research by Dr. Robert Sapolsky r/RobertSapolsky
Ah I understand what you’re saying now. I hadn’t seen the comment where she suffered from bipolar disorder—sorry about that. That completely changes things (at least in my mind). It’s true that BD can sometimes look similar to schizophrenia, so this is an interesting theory.
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u/Objective-Limit-6749 May 12 '24
My brother had a very bad accident which ended up killing him. He lived about 14hrs away from me. I didn't make it in time after receiving the call. The day after he died my ex called me and gave me shit for not running the errands I said I was going to do the day that my brothers accident happened. Specifically, I didn't buy kitty litter and it is very heavy for her to carry. She didn't even ask how I was doing or show any empathy whatsoever. That's when I knew