yeah i’m anti-revisionist: anyone who insists medieval female mystics were just schizophrenic deserves hard labour
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“Schizophrenia” is a modernist misinterpretation of a diverse variety of unconventional ways of perceiving and interpreting reality. Reject contaminating the human experience with the hubris of psychology
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Have you ever heard of a community called Myproana? They say identical things to this but about anorexia lol. The reality is that if you are seeing spirits in your living room and hearing voices in your head you need to consult a doctor. Statistically, it is an undeniable
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fact that you are likely suffering from a medical condition. Even if it’s “controlled” and you feel normal. Very few people suffering from mental health issues that distort perception of reality feel sick in any way. They still are. Denying that is irresponsible and dangerous.
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My point is that these are simply phenomena deviating from the societally sanctioned perception, which, only due to our lack of understanding and compassion and the consequent attempt to suppress them, become as pathological as they today turn out in the statistics you refer to.
In prior cultures, people experiencing phenomena like this would be treated as shamans or prophets, serving an important role as observers of reality beyond the boundaries of social convention. Having a place in the community,
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they don’t become resentful towards it and act against it (it seems to me this is the central fear here). Not to forget that the culture itself benefits from people looking at it in unconventional ways, e.g. exemplified in the role and importance of the medieval court jester.
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