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Everyone knows politics makes people crazy. But what kind of crazy? Which page of the DSM is it on?

I\u2019m only half joking. Psychiatrists have spent decades developing a whole catalog of ways brains can go wrong. Politics makes people\u2019s brains go wrong. Shouldn\u2019t it be in the catalog? Wouldn\u2019t it be weird if 21st century political extremists had discovered a totally new form of mental dysfunction, unrelated even by analogy to all the forms that had come before?

You\u2019ll object: politics only metaphorically \u201cmakes people crazy\u201d; we just use the word \u201ccrazy\u201d here to mean \u201cirrational\u201d or \u201coverly emotional\u201d. I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s true. Here are some stray findings that I think deserve to be synthesized:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-psychopolitics-of-trauma\xa0