Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we dont understand. In the nineteenth century there was a term, melancholia, which we would now call bipolar depression but all forms of sadness, unhappiness, maladaptation, were poured into this label melancholia Now, schizophrenia is a similar thing A book about schizophrenia [says that] the typical schizophrenic lives in a world of twilight imagining. Marginal to his society, incapable of holding a regular job, these people live on the fringes content to drift in their own self-created value system. I said, thats it! Thats it! Now I understand!
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Terence McKenna was a 20th-century American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer. Terence Kemp McKenna was an American philosopher, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and mushrooms. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Sadness — Navigating grief, melancholy, and emotional depth