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i think if the main thing is “hearing voices” this kind of thing is probably a good strategy, but there are lots of other probably worse symptoms of psychosis.


Like thinking you’re the sane one and everyone else is insane.


How is that even detectable as a symptom these days with mass insanity being in vogue, repeatedly?


You identify objective metrics, and confirm that they're objective and useful over the course of several days / weeks in a variety of different mental states. For example: "everyone thinks The Cloud™ will solve their problems, even though it never has" -> mass insanity. "Everyone thinks the sun will rise tomorrow, because it always has" -> extrapolation / inductive reasoning (probably fine).




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