Posted by boB on April 8, 2000, at 17:36:00
In reply to Re: Psychosis is like this..., posted by Lunatic on April 8, 2000, at 15:57:21
Whoever wrote "Chemistry of concious states" uses his own psychotic interludes to explain the feeling. This is a research neuroscientist who is honest enough to recognize that when he wakes up, fatigued in a strange room and thinks something is there that is not, he is experiencing a passing psychotic episode.
Then many of us who dabble in majical thinking, and maybe experience majical events that many clinicians would consider to be psychotic delusions like to remind ourselves:
Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.
The boundaries of psychosis are vague, variable and often solely the product of a linquistic construct. We've all been there at times.
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