• Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPM
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    1 year ago

    Fear, anger, and cognitive biases are not mental illness. Experiencing emotions is a completely normal human experience. All humans have cognitive biases because of how our brains our wired.

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      1 year ago

      Yes thats true.

      That’s not what they said though.

      They said extremism. Which is absolutely not a completely normal human experience.

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        1 year ago

        Extremist views are not normal, correct. I was addressing the quote and response because I want to be clear about the implications of a single anecdotal finding amongst a study on a drug being used for a very different purpose than the context being examined here. I don’t want people jumping to too many conclusions.