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    Choosing Humanity: Reflections on Activism and Conflict

    This second part follows a personal story reflecting on my struggle against a more powerful aggressor, my descent into madness, and how it shaped my views on conflict. Through my experiences, I explore the limits of resistance and advocate for prioritizing survival, sanity, and a mutual ceasefire over unrelenting struggle.”

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    Decoding the Language of Semantic Terrorism

    Semantic terrorism refers to the deliberate manipulation of language and symbols to create confusion, distort perception, and control narratives. By breaking the bond between signifiers and their meanings, it destabilizes communication, erodes shared understanding, and amplifies polarization. This phenomenon operates in political rhetoric, media, and digital discourse, influencing social realities.

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    Schizophrenia and Capitalism: Embracing Actual Lived Experience for Revolution

    In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari use schizophrenia as a metaphor, excluding actual schizophrenics. This ableist attitude contradicts their revolutionary aims, reducing complex experiences to oversimplified terms. Addressing this requires integrating works by Foucault, Rotenberg, Weber, and Deegan to truly understand and de-oedipalize the lived experiences of schizophrenics.”

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    Writing: A Double-Edged Sword

    Writing is a double-edged sword: sometimes it can make me feel better, offering a therapeutic release, while at other times it can be triggering and overwhelming, akin to picking at my own wounds. I lost a friend that I used to write a lot to, another psychiatrist, not my own psychiatrist. This loss has been profoundly felt, as writing to…

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    Living in “The Village”: A Patient’s Perspective

    It’s been two and a half months since I became a patient in a daycare unit at a psychiatric hospital, known as “the Village.” My initial diagnosis was schizoaffective disorder and PTSD. I often feel lonely and isolated. Wandering the grounds, I find comfort in brief interactions with other patients.

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    Exploring the Concept of “Semantic Terrorism”: A Personal Reflection and Theoretical Analysis

    ### Exploring the Concept of “Semantic Terrorism”: A Personal Reflection and Theoretical Analysis Reflecting on my experiences, I recall a pivotal moment in 2018 when the concept of “semantic terrorism” emerged in my mind. It was the same year that I had a psychotic breakdown, leading to my involuntary commitment in a psychiatric ward for five days. — **Excerpt:** In…