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Better Call Saul 1x5 REACTION [Early Access] (Patreon)

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2024-07-19 21:25:40
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2024-07

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Better Call Saul 1x5 REACTION [Early Access]

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Sometimes I think Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould made Better Call Saul just to prove that Breaking Bad wasn't lightning in a bottle.

Josh Berg

I can offer some insight into the phenomenology of Chuck's psychosomatic disorder. While I have not experienced his particular brand of disorder, I am diagnosed bi-polar, having also experienced two psychotic episodes. The commonality between his disorder and my lived psychosis is that we both experienced a type of delusion. Delusions are one symptom (hallucinations being another) experienced that lead to a psychosis diagnoses. Chuck's delusion would be just that a somatic delusion, while I have experienced a mixed set of delusions ranging from grandiose, persecutory, and thought insertion delusions. To paraphrase (I can't find a direct link to the DSM5), The DSM5 describes delusions as a fixed belief that is not amendable to change even in light of conflicting evidence. We see in Chuck that he is absolutely fixed in his belief that he has a physical condition. We are left to speculate the severity of this belief or how he might react if he knew the doctor had flipped the switch under his examination table. Likely he would perceive the physical symptoms in response, which may be a somatic hallucination. Another departure in Chuck's psychosomatic delusion and my own, is that mine was episodic, and with swift treatment, symptoms waned within a week or so. Chuck mentions he has been dealing with his condition for the better part of two years. Now, as for what a delusion feels like? I think that will vary from case to case, but I think there are some threads that could tie them together. So I can tell you what it was like for me. The prevailing theory is that my first psychosis was drug induced (Marijuana the drug of choice). That is not to say the drug alone would cause psychosis, but those with schizoaffective disorders - this includes bipolar disorders - are more susceptible with drug use. I remember I was at work at the time, (This is before I had even received a bipolar diagnoses, in fact this first psychotic episode would be the impetus for the diagnoses) and this instantaneous lightbulb goes off in my head. I'm talking to a coworker and out of thin blue air, I suddenly believe we are talking in code. Then next thing I know, hidden microphones and cameras are recording everything, then there's this secret resistance that is hiding in the shadows plotting against this oppressive Orwellian Society. The rapidity in which new delusions occurred was astounding. That night I also came to believe that Donald Trump was moments away from starting a nuclear war with North Korea (A not so crazy idea at that time), we were on the cusp of civil war, that my brain was actually Albert Einstein's brain that had been kept for study, and thus surgically implanted in my own body. Emotionally I felt a lot of things. There's fear, an inflated sense of ego, likely due to grandiosity, sadness. This is all amplified due to being in a manic state. To bring it back to Chuck. I wouldn't label him with bipolar. All we can surmise at this point is that he has a psychosomatic disorder. But he really is perceiving pain and discomfort, though it's not due to any real physical stimuli. There are many real cases were pain is experienced with a lack of physical stimuli, and conversely where the brain does not send pain signals even if they were to press their hand on a lit stove top (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain). Jimmy mentions that Chuck is much smarter than everyone in the room combined. We can draw our own conclusions from Chuck's perspective if he came to the realization this was all just in his head. For me Delusions pose a major problem in Epistemology. When you experience a delusion you then have to start from the position of a radical skeptic. You start with René Descartes famous dictum "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think therefore I am" Every belief you hold is now suspect to extreme scrutiny and doubt. But I can be sure that I exist, because I am thinking, so therefore I must exist. Part of me likes to think that notion, scares the shit out of Chuck, who has an impressive legal mind, and I think uncertainty scares him, because it sure as shit scares me.

Joel
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agree 100%. Breaking Bad is a perfect show, and yet Vince and Peter out here saying "hold my beer"