Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Language and psychosis

It's such a complex area. Describing the internal experience is very
hard because language is poorly equipped to describe what consciousness
is like.

There's also the problem of what to called delusions or hallucinations.
The words mean things that don't exist but to the people going through
them the experience is real. There probably isn't a world conspiracy or
government agencies or whatever the delusions are interpreted as. Can't
say for certain of course. But the experience is as real as the thoughts
in my head. My thoughts are real. And for many people their internal
voice is real.

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