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I'm schizotypal, which is basically schizophrenia lite... pretty sure there's nothing "behavioral" about my recurring auditory hallucinations of a brass band playing nonsense music.

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I think the parent is challenging the circular definition used by psychiatry. Aka you hear voices, therefore you have schizophrenia and you have schizophrenia which is why you hear the voices.

For example, I found the following texts thought provoking:

http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2010/01/21/schizophren...

http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2013/01/03/schizophren...

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