Reddit reviews Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic

OP, have you read "Operator's and Thing's" ? It's an account of a woman who develops schizophrenia but eventually cures herself. (Her schizophrenia helps cure her, its remarkable) It's a fascinating little book, reads like some sort of 50s sci fi but really gives you insight into the workings of a schizophrenic mind.

It seems schizophrenic patients going back hundreds of years describe this machine, just using technology of the time to describe it. Truthfully, the book I mentioned made me feel like schizophrenia isn't just a mental illness, even though the author is going for that approach.. I really feel like they were getting a glimpse into the underlying mechanisms of reality or our mind but filtering it through their cultural lens.

Here is an Amazon link but there are .pdf's easily findable.

I think it's a fugue state, my limited knowledge as such:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state

but here look into this book from the 50's called Operators and Things. https://www.amazon.com/Operators-Things-Inner-Life-Schizophrenic/dp/0615509282

This book is bonkers, it's too much for me summarize but in it, she basically sees these discarnate entities which are operators; 'things' being people, us and how the operators subtly fuck with us and control us. A notable quote from the book which sticks with me is when one of the operators tells the author, "things would still be walking in and out of caves if it were not for operators". Mull that over a bit. It's super creepy. Also they guide her through multi-state travels and even arrange for her to strike it big in Vegas so she can continue her mission to write the book. Highly recommend ingesting this. Recently reprinted I believe.

edit: link to the book in .pdf http://paragoninspects.com/articles/pdfs/temp/operators_and_things.pdf