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I think it’s funny/weird that ‘progressive’ cishet women realized they can’t call gay men faggots anymore without being judged so they started calling every gay man a ‘twink’ . I saw a cishet women call a bear a twink. Dude was clearly ~270lb of pure hairy beef and he got called a twink.

as a person who experiences psychosis/delusions & general dpdr Malaise , im always wary to pick up literature on said experiences. after all, psychotics are frequently demonized, dehumanized, etc, to say the least .

I picked up this book as it focuses on humanizing famous psychotic people , people known only for their psychosis and their psychiatrists/psychologists and nothing else. clinical anonymization means these people, e.g. 'Madame M' of Capgras' delusion (which ive experienced) , 'Madame X' of Cotard's, are known as diagnoses rather than people.

Shepherd spends a lot of time digging to contextualise these people, to discuss the world they lived in. the book adopts the hypothesis that delusions are just another way of the brain attempting to keep-on-going in the face of unacceptable circumstances like the traumas of war, disease, & death. therefore it takes on a two-pronged goal of both humanizing these "patients" into people as well as showing how the world-context / lived experiences of these people leads to their delusions being "telling" . I found a lot of Shepherd's context-driven speculation around delusions ive experienced to... idk, hit pretty close to home, like when song lyrics strike something in your soul.

Im not sure if I entirely vibe w/ Shepherd's tendency to say things along the lines of , now that [the reader] has seen the context, then it will be easier for them to see how the delusions Make Sense and relate to [person experiencing delusion]. I dont think delusions Need to be decoded or related to , unless a person has requested assistance in doing so 4 their own delusions.

generally, though, a good read. it was refreshing to read something on psychosis that isnt demonizing, fetishising, and so forth. Shepherd's tone is very much "this just is something that some people experience" which is rare in ppsychosis discussions.

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