Either we need to come to terms with a possibility that we are all in some ways a little bit mad, which is a cliche, or we need to consider a much more inclusive, less discriminating attitude towards experiences we do not share or understand.

Binary thinking might appear to make things simple, but in all likelihood the issues become more muddled and distorted.

The way we think about these matters is further confused by the assumptions we make about causation being linear and unidirectional.

How to process the escalating torrent of information available to us in a useful way is not clear, but the predicament is a way of imagining madness.

It is a curious paradox that schizophrenia might be imagined as a condition of being both less or too much of whomever we might be. An intricate balance is lost.