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DSM-5

Terror into taxonomy

Not read for pleasure. Read because Kenneth's brain does things that need naming. Having the clinical vocabulary for schizoaffective disorder, dissociation, and the rest of the diagnostic landscape turns terror into taxonomy. Not a cure, but a map. You can navigate what you can name.

The DSM is the reference manual for understanding what schizoaffective disorder looks like from the outside. The essays, What Schizoaffective Disorder Actually Feels Like, Delusions and Schizoaffective Disorder, are what it looks like from inside.