What would be normal and abnormal?
We have the habit of comparing ourselves to others and who hasn't thought "argh, why am I not normal like others?"
But normal or abnormal is just one piece of our feeling that makes us feel inferior. If you think about all the 7 billion people that exist on this planet, none are the same as you or me, so it is not possible to define a metric of normality because being ourselves is the beauty of our self.
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Psychology student. I like philosophy and things that try to explain the human behavior
The book tells the story of Dr. Bacamarte, an alienist (the designation of psychiatrist at the time), who creates the Green House, a place to carry out unprecedented studies on the human mind, but ends up getting lost in his own madness.
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