Is That A Compliment The Happy Schizotype

Uber-skeptics, debunkers, and the usual crowd of pathological skeptics like to accuse us woos of being mentally unhinged. Degrees vary, but we're all nutcases in some way. If you're naive enough to relate a story about your experiences in a haunted house you used to live in, strange mystical type experiences you've had, interactions with aliens,synchronicities, telepathy and OOBEs, it's a trip to the doctor, little missy, to see if you're not suffering from some malady. Reasons for your visions could be a brain tumor, epilepsy, depression, early stage of schizophrenia, migraines, -- all kinds of things. Anything, something, to explain it all. Anything, something, that is, except for the reality of paranormal,UFO, or anomalous phenomena.Used to be, the likes of a Dr. Gary Posner ruled the day:"[Believers in the paranormal may be] afflicted with a thought disorder that manifests in... a faulty sense of reality... [their] irrational behavior... may be more compatible with a diagnosis of ambulatory schizophrenia... than with mere naivete." ~ "Faulty Sense of Reality", published in "Skeptical Inquirer", 3(2), p. 79:(in: Skeptics: What They Do and Why )But there's a new take on it all. In Investigating the 'Happy Schizotype' it's decided we're all 'schizotypes" and really, there's nothing wrong with that at all. Those of us that experience the anomalous more than once or twice in our lives are higher up on this scale, and still suspect, but, as long as we're not causing trouble for anyone, no one need worry. We don't need meds, don't need to seek therapy, don't need to be chastised or accused of madness. We're still eccentric, don't you know, and need to be watched, but over all, we're good to go:A profile has emerged of the "happy schizotype," who appears to be prone to unusual experiences in the absence of psychopathology and evaluates these experiences as pleasant. Happy schizotypes also have higher levels of mental health and well-being than other schizotypal profiles.Even though woos are perceived as having "higher levels of mental health" than others, we're still fodder for uber-skeptics, it would seem.

Reference: anomalies-in-backyard.blogspot.com