Neil Scheurich

Psychiatrist, narrative therapist, cultural magpie

[Neil Scheurich @NeilScheurich]

@AgnesCallard Made me think of Kafka's "Before the Law" https://t.co/Q1EMe8UDTA

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@AgnesCallard I think your piece conveys how interpersonal "understanding" is always relative misunderstanding, which only asymptotically approaches true understanding of another. Misunderstanding can do real harm; sometimes one needs witnessing, radical acceptance.

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@AgnesCallard So long as you don't wake up with a headache the next morning...

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@AgnesCallard Fascinating that as stigmatized (and self-stigmatized) as depression or ADHD are, maybe a deep and broad unhappiness--with a major arc of one's life--is even more so. Flawed self preferable to a disappointing world?

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Blues and whites...

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@AllenFrancesMD I recently discovered "The Alienist" by Machado de Assis, a classic in which an asylum psychiatrist "reasons" that either everyone in town must be mad or he himself must be.

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Who will be this regime's Albert Speer?

[micah hulscher @micah45]

The subtle things that are terrifying......MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns https://t.co/FggXahCwqW

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@DouthatNYT Points well taken, but it is an era of oddly breakneck stagnation insofar as current environmental trends are unsustainable; it's not dynamic acceleration, but rather our heedlessly high velocity that feels vertiginous.

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Procrastination is a temporal form of living on credit, borrowing time and effort from a future self. Which isn't to say that it is always misguided.

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"Dostoevsky shows us that pride and humility are really one. If you are proud you almost certainly feel humbler than someone in the world, because pride is an anxiety, not a consolation."

James Wood, "Dostoevsky's God"

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To what degree is reading fiction "a trauma response," that is, compensation for hard reality? I think of Nietzsche's "We have art in order not to die of the truth." Engagement with life vs. escape from life; enhancement vs. palliation.

https://t.co/XtpDukgDEg

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@AgnesCallard Or at least not part of the aspirational "me."

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@AllenFrancesMD @RichardLehman1 Agree re hospitals, but more generally I'd prefer the converse of the quote: "Count no man unhappy until his end is known."

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@fannychoir The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.

But witness for her land,
And witness for her sea,
The cricket is her utmost
Of elegy to me.

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@AllenFrancesMD I can probably guess the answer based on this post, but do you see any value in Genomind, Genesight, etc? I haven't used yet, but increasingly seeing others do so.

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Old Wake Forest.

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If the cold war 1980's were like walking in a thunderstorm, with sudden death by lightning unlikely but very plausible, the climate-changing AI-looming 2020's may be like walking in fog, the path ahead thickly obscured. And still occasional thunder.

https://t.co/oeztWuGIi3

[Prof Jamie Woodward @Jamie_Woodward_]

Sloth 1 Snake 0

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@TheAnnaGat However, it can be motivating (a little) to imagine the gratitude and appreciation of future you.