Mental Illness Isn’t Chaos — It’s Too Much Order (with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris)

Mental Illness Isn’t Chaos — It’s Too Much Order (with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris)

In today’s cultural and clinical understanding, mental illness is often associated with chaos. Disordered moods, unstable thoughts, erratic behaviors — the language we use reflects a presumption that illness is fundamentally a breakdown of order. But what if we’ve misunderstood the nature of that “disorder”? What if, in many cases, mental illness is actually the result of too much order — a mind locked into patterns so fixed they become a prison…