Maddi Carroll’s Reviews > The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays > Status Update
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“A diagnosis is comforting because it provides a framework—a community, a lineage-and, if luck is afoot, a treatment or cure.
A diagnosis says that I am crazy, but in a particular way: one that has been experienced and recorded not just in modern times, but also by the ancient Egyptians…]”
— Feb 11, 2026 04:52PM
A diagnosis says that I am crazy, but in a particular way: one that has been experienced and recorded not just in modern times, but also by the ancient Egyptians…]”
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Maddi Carroll
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“After all, it is easy to forget that psychiatric diagnoses are human constructs, and not handed down from an all-knowing God on stone tablets; to ‘have schizophrenia’ is to fit an assemblage of symptoms, which are listed in a purple book made by humans.”
— Feb 11, 2026 05:03PM
