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There's something called the Mandela Effect which is the phenomenon where masses of people believe that an event occurred when it didn't. The term was first coined in 2009 after researcher Fiona Broome got talking to people at a conference about how she remembered Nelson…

I came across an interesting essay on Asperger's syndrome. It investigated how the new disease category was established and the effects the diagnosis had on the self-understanding of the people diagnosed. On the broader spectrum, it touched on how categorization works to define who we…

Last week I finished a novel that left me in sadness and has lingered ever since. It was Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf's The Emperor of Portugallia. The author herself referred to it as a Swedish King Lear, another tragedy about insanity. I'm unable to…

On a whim, I lowered my dose of olanzapine from 10 to 5mg a couple of weeks back. Like so many schizophrenics, I can't shake the idea that in a perfect universe, I'm medication-free. We'll see how this one pans out. I'm starting to see…

It's that special time of the year again. I'm sure this Christmas is difficult for many people with inflation and rising food prices. At least pork and potatoes are still cheap. My friend is having an especially tough time. He's addicted to benzodiazepines and alcohol.