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Garzology

Garzology is the study of intrusive, repetitive thoughts. I coined the term when I was first diagnosed with schizophrenia as an inpatient at Sunnybrook in 1988. It has its roots in 2 counter-culture comics I read, as a teenager, in my sister the hippie's house. In the first comic, it displays 5 panels. In the first panel, a woman says, "And now the transformation must begin." The rest of the panels show the woman being transformed into a monster with long, sharp, pointy teeth. In the fifth panel, the woman, who is now a monster, exclaims, "GARZOB!!".

The Reginald character, who along with God, Christ, the son of Christ, the President, and the Vice-President, frequently makes an appearance in my intrusive, repetitive thoughts. In between Garzob and Reginald, a character named Harold entered the picture. In the second counter-culture comic, a single panel is displayed, containing a wife and a husband. The wife holds out her palm, level with the husband's crotch, and says, "Harold, show me your penis [or give me your penis, I don't remember exactly]." The husband says, "Yes, dear." Meanwhile, the wife is holding behind her back a big butcher knife.

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