Carleas wrote:What credence do you give that diagnosis? Does the diagnosis affect the way you evaluate your ideas/thoughts/experiences, or those of other people?
I actually think schizophrenia is a very dangerous diagnosis. I understand to one dimension that it's about compassion, but the flip side is, anything not deemed rational by the state is considered 'psychosis'
Drugs don't do very much.
I think it's really important instead of using the term "psychosis", if you just ask someone, "are your symptoms violating your consent?".
Most would say "yes"
Then it's a disorder.
But I would investigate further...
"Is it your disorder or the disorder of others that is facilitating this?"
That's the really hard question for the diagnosed and the clinicians alike!
That's where we have subtler conversations about species wide psychosis and a rational response to it.