Night’s End
TL;DR: I invite you to join me in playing out a metaphor: ‘you’ are required to find a bag of heroin during the span of one night downtown in your city; your life depends on it.
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Abstract: I invite you to join me in playing out a metaphor. It will require your imaginative participation. Metaphors can be useful when explanations in ordinary language aren’t sufficient. Here is the metaphor: ‘you’ are required to find a bag of heroin during the span of one night downtown in your city; your life depends on it. You will likely doubt that you can do this, but remember that your life depends on it! That’s what getting out of schizophrenia is like: there are no clues, no map, no road signs like ‘wrong way,’ ‘turn here,’ ‘detour,’ ‘straight on.’ And it’s dark, lonely, and very frightening. You want nothing to do with it, but your return to sanity is at stake. That’s schizophrenia.
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