And, quite clearly, these many symptoms will vary extensively in terms of severity. What one person experiences as a slight glitch in audio perception—light static—another will experience as strident persecutory voices—you’re a fat bitch. One might detect a slight shimmering in the sky, while another sees fist-size spiders cascading down a bedroom wall. Yet still, for both ends of this spectrum, we level the same diagnosis. Is there any other disease we think of similarly? Imagine if we thought of cancer this way, if we couldn’t distinguish between different types of malignancy. How absurd
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