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They advised me that if I followed their recommended protocols of therapy and pharmacology, I would inevitably be led, like an obedient Kool-Aid sheep, to better emotional, psychological, and physical health. He said that I had to be taken to my local hospital immediately because I was a danger to myself and others.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. I was also put on Prozac.