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Psychosis on Twitter?
Curious about a realistic delusion that my patient has regarding government surveillance, I found myself scrolling in fascination through Twitter feeds and Facebook groups full of borderline-believable content, visited/followed by thousands of people.
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Curious about a realistic delusion that my patient has regarding government surveillance, I found myself scrolling in fascination through Twitter feeds and Facebook groups full of borderline-believable content, visited/followed by thousands of people.
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Given that there are millions of people with psychotic disorders in the U.S, let alone in the world, it made me wonder how many corners of the internet and social media are occupied by individuals with true delusions and paranoia interacting with one another...
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And it further made me wonder at the concentric circles of psychiatric pathology, the inner circle being full-blown delusion, a fixed belief contradicting known objective reality, an outer circle of those with overvalued ideas maintained despite strong evidence...
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And the outermost circle perhaps of those with no clear psychiatric pathology, but simply maintaining a willful ignorance of contradictory evidence in order to support a paranoia-tinged narrative: Conspiracy theorists, political radicals, and others...
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#Psychiatry #MedTwitter
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Thoughts? Emotions? Emojis?
@Duloxetini @ArielTabachnik @LopezPsych
@ChazImp
Thoughts? Emotions? Emojis?
My post numbering is all messed up here but it's a good thread I promise. 
