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Re:Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near t... by Avicebron on Saturday June 28, 2025 @07:09PM (#44408922)
I wonder about this as well...like maybe there's some comfort in automatically "diagnosing" someone when they might see patterns or think in ways that challenge your priors..

EDIT: Imagine being powerful and wealthy and assured in your position in the Catholic Church and someone comes along and questions geocentricity and says you're wrong. It's a pretty easy leap to huffily say well, they are "mentally ill, crazy, delusional, paranoid"

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Re:Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near t... by throw18376 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @02:55PM (#44415405)
all kinds of authoritarian regimes and movements certainly do this.

that said... you just have to have a conversation with someone experiencing psychosis. it's a totally altered state of consciousness, they are sensing and understanding the world in a radically different way. it's never just an otherwise normal person with a nonconformist belief.

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