Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > > Ian Kelly writes: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I > > > > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had > > > > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before. > > > > > > "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses? > > > > Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to > > say that one has "learned" it. > > And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'?
A nice academic question. Not appropriate when we're discussing a real person's psychotic episodes. Neither you nor I are experts in whether an experience is psychosis, and the person already has an expert diagnosis. So please don't de-rail into the weeds of second-guessing an expert in mental health. Unless you know the person's mental health better than their doctor (and you do not), don't second-guess the diagnosis they received. -- \ “When [science] permits us to see the far side of some new | `\ horizon, we remember those who prepared the way – seeing for | _o__) them also.” —Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_, 1980 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
