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Jared Peterson Oct 28
A Failure To Disagree

In other words: Psychological Illnesses Are Gardens, Not Digsites.

This is an incredibly well researched piece and it has entered my top-three-go-to-references for talking about mental illness.

(The other two being Scott Alexander's responses to Bryan Caplan, and Jeremy Hadfield’s “The Conceptual Engineering of Mental Illness”)

People present themselves as hosts to diagnostic entities, rather than agents struggling through difficulties. In the most extreme cases, that essence becomes all-pervading, a core of who they are.
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