In a NY Times guest essay, "My Hope for Nick Reiner" (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/nick-reiner-arraignment-psychology.html) by Andrew Solomon, professor of medical clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center. I read:
"As someone who last year experienced medication-induced psychosis, I am intimately acquainted with anosognosia, the symptomatic belief among psychotic people that they have no illness."
My first thought was that the term might be applied to those who idolize the Orange Jesus.
My second thought was that a better article would have briefly explained the "medication-induced psychosis".
But there was something else which bothered me:
"The public’s presumption that Nick Reiner may have had some kind of choice reflects a poor understanding of the inner lives of the mentally ill; Nick himself said that his problems were always “more than” the addiction that was long reported in the media. If he had not hoped to triumph over his problems, he would not have gone to rehab nearly 20 times, as he did." I(the italics are mine.)
Unless Dr. Solomon was intimately fmiliar with Reiner's history I am guessing that some of those rehab stints might be a logical choice when th eother choice was jail time.
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