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  1. A story of a woman who didn't know her brother was schizophrenic until he was an adult.

    huffpost.com/entry/mental-illn

    Do we, as a society, stigmatize others by using DSM-V mental diagnoses words as a replacement phrase for "mentally ill", or even worse, "crazy" or "insane"?

    What if it were you or in your family?

    #mentalhealth #mentalillness #schizophrenia #bpd #schizoaffective #biolardisorder #schizotypy #schizotypalpersonalitydisorder #spd #genetics #psychosis #delusion #paranoia #socialanxiety ⚕️

  2. The other day I bet somebody I had a copy of my “triple split” card in my sample box…. and I did. I improved to better represent fragmentation of the self by tearing it on the edge of a ruler.

    Based on an illustration from Heinz Kohut’s Analysis of the Self, this illustrates the division within a person for whom a developmental arrest has prevented the development of the “True Self”

    #mentalhealth #psychology #narcissism #prints #3sidedcards #schizotypy

  3. I need a better working title than "Cockatrice Soup for the Schizotypal Brain" for a manuscript but if I don't start working on it we'll never get to the place where people will think self-diagnosing as autistic or ADHD is so 2024

    #schizotypy #neurodivergence

  4. for years I had misunderstood my neurodivergence thinking I was Cyrano de Bergerac when really I was Christian de Neuvillette and I'm starting to think through the implications of that

    #schizotypy #neurodivergence #romance

  5. reading now — Schizotypy: new dimensions edited by Oliver J. Mason and Gordon Claridge

    (… takes the dimensional viewpoint, are you or more or less schizotypal vs the taxonic, you have schizotypy or you don’t; this comes off as muddy and inconclusive compared to the taxonic viewpoint but the taxonic viewpoint is hard to believe because molecular biologists never found Meehl’s “schizogene”)

    #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry #schizotypy #schizotaxia #books #bookstodon