Do animals experience mental illness?
Some of the individuals nonchalantly spoke of their “psychic abilities” and “extrasensory perception (ESP) abilities.” They claimed people had the ability to send their minds to distant locations in the past, present, or future and accurately describe what is, was, or will be there (“remote viewing”—also known as clairvoyance); they had an ability
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Some therapists have an overly reductive understanding of psychiatric diagnosis. They seem to think a diagnosis of mental disorder necessarily implies there is some intrinsic brain abnormality. They think if someone’s symptoms can be explained with reference to a history of abuse or trauma, then a diagnosis doesn’t apply to them. The logic is so in
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We are the insane ones and they will always fly the flags of health, rationality, and balance. They feel sorry for us from afar: We are the proverbial drowning man and they the observer on dry land.
Loving companions bear no such hints of superiority. They do not judge us as beneath them when we lie crumpled in our pyjamas at midday because they do
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