marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

on the 'targeted' community of positive psychosis

September 5, 2024

source: aeon.co

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

On the ‘targeted’ community of positive psychosis:

Journalists often depict the TI community as a postmodern tragedy – a byproduct of unregulated social media. Here are thousands of very sick people, we’re told, who are just reinforcing each other’s delusions and making each other sicker because they refuse to see psychiatrists

What if the TI community is an inevitable reaction to the shortcomings of medical psychiatry itself? Put differently, what if medical psychiatry is inadvertently pushing people like Luca deeper into the TI community?

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