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We have been extremely interested thus far in presenting the cases of victims of mental disease, people who, although previously normal, became utterly incapable of coping with their jobs, their families, their social relationships, or even their own nutrition. Some came to perceive the world in terms quite unlike the perceptions of the rest of the population, some became unable to leave their beds or their homes, and some attempted or actually committed suicide. All of them spent years trying to recover some semblance of their former personalities.
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Spitzer, T. (1980). The Biology of Mental Illness. In: Psychobattery. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5997-8_5
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