A schizophrenic’s
delusion is respectable. There is integrity in his false certainty. The
delusion arose from the ashes of childhood devastation to save him.* For example,
the gutting of his self-esteem by the soul murder of chronic shaming and
degradation may require the reaction of delusions of importance – he is Jesus; a
famous movie star loves him; he has become so formidable that he is being surveilled
ubiquitously – later in life to give him a sense of existing, of being a
person. But QAnon? The nonsense these human disappointments believe is as
arbitrary and brainless as spitting in the wind and homesteading where it lands, as opening
your mouth and swallowing whatever flies in. QAnon are the trailer trash of
insanity, wearing the tackiest mask of sanity,** cheapening the nature and heartbreak of psychosis and undermining its rules. I see these sheep and can barely
believe cerebral neurons can be wasted so magnificently. It’s stupefying that
the grave choice to bastardize one’s life or not to has reached this conclusion.
Our ignorant
and complacently criminal president has revealed what huddles beneath the
woodwork in America. We learn more psychology than most of us would ever want to know: Adults can make a living and be entirely false and unserious
human beings. I wonder what living in this grotesque carnivalscape will do to our children’s sense of
reality.
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* See Peter Breggin’s Toxic Psychiatry and John Modrow’s How To Become a Schizophrenic.
** The Mask of Sanity, Hervey Cleckley, M.D., 1903 - 1984. https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1941-cleckley-maskofsanity.pdf. Cleckley’s classic study of psychopathy.
** The Mask of Sanity, Hervey Cleckley, M.D., 1903 - 1984. https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1941-cleckley-maskofsanity.pdf. Cleckley’s classic study of psychopathy.
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Comments are welcome, but I'd suggest you first read "Feeling-centered therapy" and "Ocean and boat" for a basic introduction to my kind of theory and therapy.