Thank you all for the responses.

Wanderlust90, I'm sorry to hear about your family being that way. My family is the same way sometimes, and I think what you said about people just not wanting to deal with it is very true. To a certain extent, trying to be reassuring and tell someone things probably aren't as bad as they seem can be useful. But there are times where they're just straight up denying the truth and it's insulting.

thedayturnedaround, that was really helpful, thank you. I experienced soo many similar things the one time I was in a definite psychotic spell. It's so weird to me how peoples' brains can be so different, but seem to follow similar trends with what their brain decides to make up during psychosis. I don't think the thing about the government controlling the weather is one I remember hearing from anyone else, and I definitely had that one too, so that's comforting, somehow.