I can see how ....sometimes....this may be the case but not ......always.

for example my wife and I are in a small time acting program with the college as a leisure activity we can do together. just now I have to fake being a drab, sad/depressed suicidal persona nd my wife has to fake being a very happy optimistic person with schizophrenia. on the home front we sometimes slip into our acting parts either practicing our lines or just because the situation at the moment calls for this type of attitude.

in our intimate times together my wife and I roll play (fake) who and what we are to spice up our intimate time together. this has actually been taught to us and encouraged by our therapists.

human beings on a normal level naturally do engage in faking\role playing/ pretending to be people and things they are not...

look at us here on psych central we have made up user names, made up passwords most change what their situations are around a bit to make it hard for someone in their real life to recognize who they are on here in case they happen to find psych psych central since psych central boards can be read even without logging in and open to the public....

yes sometimes its part of someones mental disorder to put on airs\fake who and what they are but in ....my opinion...most times its just part of normal life that has been taught to us as children and adults to play pretend/fake\roll play being someone different then who we really are..

.the reason I hold this opinion is that if there was something abnormal or wrong with this acting classes would not be teaching, parents would not be teaching their children to play pretend, therapists, psychiatrists and medical doctors would not be teaching techniques like roll playing/ acting as if and other therapeutic/medical healing techniques...