Posted by sigismund on September 5, 2013, at 17:47:18
In reply to how psychiatrists use 'crazy', posted by Sebastian Flyte on September 4, 2013, at 23:54:01
I recall a young man lucidly describing to me how the central committee of the Chinese and USSR communist parties had electrodes in his brain monitoring thoughts on which the peace between these two countries depended. Clearly references from 40 years ago.
He seemed much saner than me......lucid, without 'problems', and with many other attributes valued by the young except when in their own possession (such as good looks).
With mixed feelings I decided he was crazy and I was not.
My psych dr described a man who believed himself to be God, advising this man to talk about this just with him.
Some people, with word salad, are clearly ill in some way or other. There could be anything happening there.
Back in the day, what is now seen as manic psychosis was often diagnosed as schizophrenia.
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