#cognitive function

Brain Cog Volume. 1

Hey everyone! This is a little comic project I made with my cognitive functions gjinkas. I made this in a month for a comic class at my university, hope you enjoy this :D

Credit to my friend, Kiko for helping me with coloring. I'll be posting the comics in three different parts!

READ PART ONE HERE 👇

PART 1 / PART 2

One of the less talked about hallmarks of schizophrenia is the cognitive aspect. Typical antipsychotics work on D2 receptors, atypical antipsychotics work on serotonin 5-HT2 receptors, and both do an ok job at managing the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

There are no pills for cognitive impairment. There are "cognitive enhancement" medications, but they are rarely, if ever, prescribed to people with schizophrenia, and their effectiveness is debatable.

There are things like diet and stress management (difficult when one eats the same thing every day for fear of being poisoned) that can aid in cognitive functioning, but there are no "magic" pills that "fix" the issues. Supplements are good, a balanced diet is good, but the problems with cognition and executive functioning persist.

Skill-building techniques help with the cognitive aspects of schizophrenia. Tasks that train working memory, processing, organization, attention, reasoning, etc. can help build up the pathways in the brain to support executive functioning skills.

Let me ask, to what extent would your self-worth differ if you concluded you were mistyped and to what extent would it change if you found typology to be a false idea?

Back when I believed socionics was the answer to everything at 15, I was negatively affected by that interest. I questioned many things about myself because I seemed to have traits that didn't fit my EII (INFP,INFj) type, but I settled on it eitherway because of my focus on morality. It didn't help how little self esteem I had to be of the least impressive of the 4 "intelligent" types (and in the circles I was in most types were dismissed as "normie idiots") Socionics changed how I saw others. I believed others lacked moral values and intelligence, thought in a manner inconceivable to me and would fundamentally be bad company for me (and I for them)

Enneagram too had me constantly questioning every aspect of my behavior in order to confirm that I was indeed a "5w4"

If you are invested in personality typing, I think you should consider the influence of your emotions on your investment and take a short break. It helped me realise these systems fail to predict human behavior and the categories are largely arbitrary: people believe because it allows them to be superior to the majority and because it's a safety harness. If you are no longer certain about these systems, it might be useful to share your opinion of them in retrospect

🥑 this was inspired by an ask I got which, while I was answering it made me realise something about MBTI

🥑 this felt like too much to post as part of the answer so hope the anon who asked also finds this!

🥑 quincunxes tend to be about incompatible aspects of life, sometimes you may favor one of the other. with venus quincunx lilith, to find out whether the person with favor the venus aspects of their chart or the lilith aspects, it depends how well the placements are working

🥑 if venus is in domicile or exalted, they may most likely favor venus

🥑 if it is debilitated somehow (peregrine, fall, detriment), they will probably favor lilith simply as it is easier

🥑 in mbti people often favor their dominant two functions so if you want some real deep insight into your psyche and personality, look at your dominant function in mbti and then go and check out what planets are exalted or in domicile and you will see roughly the full 'psychic toolkit' you have to work with. what's dom or exalted will also likely flow really easily through your dominant cognitive function.

🥑 for example, I have the sun exalted in aries and am Se auxiliary (ISTP). results in me being kind of headstrong and translatinf this physically such as going into the outdoors and being very happy trekking and exploring, even somewhat scary or dangerous places

🥑 so for another example if venus was in domicile in taurus, the person in question would likely really really favor the venus aspects of their life and potentially use them to suppress their lilith. If they were (for example) an INFJ they might be super out of touch with their shadow functions and lower functions which may then express themselces violently due to suppression (e.g. binging due to being out of touch with their Se)

Here is the difference between introverted intuition and extraverted intuition and how you can tell them apart. 

Each perceiving function represents a particular lens or filter through which we interpret the world around us.

These two perceiving functions, Ne and Ni, both represent a style of perception that favors abstraction over the literal. 

However, there are key distinctions. 

Observation through Introverted Intuition looks for the connections, meanings, implications and potential outcomes behind what it observes.

It gives less attention to physical details and is less aware of its surroundings in general. 

Because its focus is on reading between the lines or looking ahead to the future, it renders itself somewhat disengaged and detached from the present moment. 

Extraverted Intuition by contrast is more interactive with the world around it, using it as fodder for its own machinations.

Ne is less interested in trying to read beneath the surface, predict outcomes or interpret meanings. Rather, it draws inspiration from what it observes and reacts in creative ways. 

It looks for opportunities to use ingenuity, apply imagination, and explore new ideas. While Ni is busy trying to decode the world, Ne is harvesting metaphorical gems from it.