schizophrenia
Schizophrenia 101; look beyond the pop culture portrayals and learn the reality behind this oft-stigmatized mental illness.
The Moral Thread
The Moral Thread: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Voices, Tools, and Authorship Phenomenology begins with what is given. It does not begin with explanation, diagnosis, mythology, or theory, but with experience as it is lived. It asks what appears, how it appears, and under what conditions it changes. It asks what becomes visible when interpretation is suspended long enough for structure to reveal itself. From this standpoint, schizophrenia does not first present itself as an illness. It presents itself as a reconfiguration of experience—a shift in how meaning, intention, and authorship are perceived. What is usually implicit becomes explicit. What normally remains hidden behind function and habit becomes visible as machinery. The mind, rather than concealing its processes, exposes them.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Psyche
Schizophrenia as Recursive Saturation
Schizophrenia as Recursive Saturation Schizophrenia behaves recursively. By recursion, I mean a repeated action in search of meaning—or in the acquisition of more meaning. It is not simply repetition for its own sake, but repetition with function. Even the word itself points toward this structure: schizophrenia translates roughly to “split mind.” This split is not merely between thoughts, but between processes—between the mind that experiences and the mind that interprets that experience.
By Chase McQuade2 months ago in Psyche
The Psychology of Emotional Contagion. AI-Generated.
Walk into a room where tension hangs in the air, and you may feel uneasy before anyone says a word. Enter a space filled with laughter, and your mood often lifts almost instantly. This phenomenon is not coincidence or imagination; it is emotional contagion at work. Emotional contagion is a subcategory of social psychology that explores how emotions transfer from one person to another, often unconsciously. It shapes group dynamics, relationships, workplaces, and even entire societies, influencing how we feel and behave in ways we rarely notice.
By Kyle Butler2 months ago in Psyche
Dialogues Across Time. AI-Generated.
I feel we are at the corner of something revolutionary and yet evolutionarily necessitated. Some psychologists acknowledge only the past century as a time for our field when it has been alive and well, but giving credit to the late Charles Darwin means first acknowledging the agencies that formed out of novel curiosity, which would eventually call the field home. Psychology evolves, sometimes quickly, but the questions at its core remain the same.
By Inner Terrain w/ Daniel Chapman3 months ago in Psyche
The Ten Basic Psychological Needs
🌿 The Ten Basic Psychological Needs: Why Your Life Feels the Way It Feels. Most people go through life feeling something is “off” without ever knowing why. We feel drained, unseen, unappreciated, overwhelmed, or disconnected — and we assume it’s just the way life is.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Psyche
The Application That Said No. AI-Generated.
Application rejected. Application rejected. Application rejected. Zara Malik refreshed her email for the hundredth time that day, hoping the words would somehow change. They didn't. Seventy-three job applications in four months. Seventy-three rejections, or worse—silence.
By The 9x Fawdi3 months ago in Psyche
Behind the Screen: How E-Commerce Is Rewriting Human Life
You probably didn't even notice it. Maybe it was just another night. You were tired, half-asleep, your phone in hand. You opened an app without thinking, browsed through a few products, read some suspiciously similar reviews, tapped "Buy Now," and went back to what you were doing. Somewhere in the distance, a warehouse light came on, you scanned a barcode, and a package arrived. A few days later, a small box arrived at your door, and the moment was complete.
By Sayed Zewayed3 months ago in Psyche
The Month Everyone Gets Wrong About Suicide
The public conversation around suicide repeats a mistake every year. As soon as December hits, social media fills with somber graphics, dramatic pleas, and emotional declarations insisting that the holidays are the most dangerous time for suicidal behavior. The message is well-intended, but it is wrong. The data has been stable for decades.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Psyche
Anxiety... Autism... or both?. Content Warning.
I've been having a lot of meltdowns and shutdowns in this past year. It's been almost 9 months since I was diagnosed with autism. It was an expensive diagnosis that has honestly been more problematic than helpful (but hopefully that will change soon).
By The Schizophrenic Mom3 months ago in Psyche
The Story of Psyche and Eros
The Story of Eros and Psyche Psyche was mortal, though her beauty rivaled the divine. She was not Venus, yet the world bent its worship toward her, and in that reflection the goddess grew jealous. It is always the same—when the soul shines too brightly, the voices of envy rise. Venus, in anger, sent her son Eros to strike Psyche with ruin, to bind her to a monstrous love. But when Eros looked upon her, he himself was pierced. He fell into the same love he was meant to destroy.
By Chase McQuade3 months ago in Psyche
