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Eh...they're the same company. Makes sense to be on the same platform.

That article talks about the pathologization of "life's misfortunes," which is absolutely a problem. It goes on to describe how this relates to the diagnoses of depression, bipolar II, PTSD, and personality disorders.

I'm not talking about a diagnosis with "fuzzy boundaries" here, I'm talking about a woman displaying clear paranoid delusions:

WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW. IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW.

THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE

IF ANY SPIRITUAL ACCOUNT IS NOT REVEALING THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW THEY ARE FAKE. THEY ARE LIES. THEY HAVE SOLD OUT AND ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE. WAKE UP!

And then murdering her husband, pushing her children out of a moving car, and crashing into a tree at 100 mph.

Of course neither I nor anyone else could make an accurate diagnosis without directly evaluating her. My entire point was responding originally to someone who was trying to dismiss this is "just hate," because it clearly isn't. Among the differential diagnoses for this woman would be a severe manic episode, indicating bipolar I, or a psychotic episode, indicating a number of possible psychotic disorders, among other possibilities we could not know without evaluating her. We're not talking about "where should psychiatry draw the line between depression and sadness?"

Wow dude, take a chill pill 🤣

I'm going to do some soul searchering now, byye

This is a rebuttal by the author of the book that was the target of that recent Nature article. He's a professor at NYU who's been studying this for a long time

I doubt very much that you're in a position to speak with such authority in the matter.

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I read her direct quotes in the article, the headline is nonsense.

She may well be mentally ill. She may also not be. I doubt very much that you're in a position to speak with such authority in the matter.

You could say this to yourself, too.

I'm a psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in acute inpatient psych

We're talking on completely different wavelengths here. I'm not in any way saying hate as a human behavior is caused or excused by mental illness. I'm saying this specific person, with a pronounced decline in functioning and worsening paranoia, delusional thinking, and hyperreligiosity, is experiencing severe mania, and that what people say when they're experiencing mania with psychosis is not based in reality or a reflection of who they actually are or what they believe. There are lots of people who are full of hate and who aren't mentally ill, this person is clearly not in that category.

I'm on mobile browsing on Firefox and it redirected fine to the full site

I've seen enough people experiencing severe mania yell racist obscenities who later stabilized and were mortified at their previous behavior to know that no, this is not "just hate." This is either severe mania with psychotic features or straight up severe psychosis.

That's natural gas acquired from all sources