You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don__ understand. In the nineteenth century there was a term, melancholia, which we would now call bipolar depression_ but all forms of sadness, unhappiness, maladaptation, were poured into this label melancholia_ Now, schizophrenia is a similar thing_ A book about schizophrenia [says that] the typical schizophrenic lives in a world of twilight imagining. Marginal to his society, incapable of holding a regular job, these people live on the fringes content to drift in their own self-created value system. I said, that__ it! That__ it! Now I understand!
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Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don__ understand. In the nineteenth century there was a term, melancholia, which we would now call bipolar depression_ but all forms of sadness, unhappiness, maladaptation, were poured into this label melancholia_ Now, schizophrenia is a similar thing_ A book about schizophrenia [says that] the typical schizophrenic lives in a world of twilight imagining. Marginal to his society, incapable of holding a regular job, these people live on the fringes content to drift in their own self-created value system. I said, that__ it! That__ it! Now I understand!
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