February 26th, 2024

edited 2024-02-26 · open in Roam

my threads on twitter - competition
- twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1762184000389664822
my threads on twitter - monogamy mating dance romantic relationships
- twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1761520133288468824
theory of mind & as far as I can tell and other co-epistemic frame tags
- one of the things that gets people tagged as crazy is when they say absurd stuff without acknowledging that it'll come off as weird or surprising
  - eg paranoid delusions
  - there's a kind of disconnect from the collective sense of things
- story of a person who came into a group and comments that he and his son were exhausted because someone searched their apartment last night
  - friend > who was searching?
    - [foreign country's secret police]
  - friend > what did you do?
    - we pretended to be asleep
  - group was silent
Jessica Ocean > people classify someone as having a mental health problem when they are suffering for a reason that doesn't seem to have an external cause
- ...which is in general a failure of imagination, as there are lots of more kinds of external causes than people realize
- ...
- this has me (M) reflecting that insofar as NO such problems exist, all diagnoses of mental health problems are actually themselves delusional and kinda gaslighty
  - I haven't yet found the exact insight-thought here but there's something