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Originally Posted by venusss
Imho, you can judge such thing only in person you know well.
Like, if I tell you about my life briefly, you'll think i am delusional with all the "paranoia" and throwing myself into things.
Also, not everything is psychiatric delusion. Sometimes it's more skewed thinking. Or cognitive distortion... I didn't study psychology. But I have MA in International relations and let me tell you, history was build on mistakes coming from cognitive distortions... but there are other ways to explain them than broken brain, chemical imbalances and all that.
Thinking that asshole is awesome guy is common mistake. "This might be a good idea" thinking happens to many.
Gah, read some political debate and you can go and diagnose everybody as delusional. What is straight thinking? What is viewing the reality as it is? Imho, "common sense" is often just a delusion shared by majority.
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I totally agree with most and especially the "common sense", or just really just that:
common sense, bit.
And I would say common sense
s.
I am a monistic mystic like that (which
might go much further than what you believe/say): basically I believe the brain itself is a
common, pervading, hallucination. The believe in it (a part of) a/the common delusion. The thing itself we share, but the way it works differs from person to person. Psychotic? I think so. Am I? Not according to the DSM/ICD. No functional impairment. Fair enough. But aren't we all functionally impaired? I would definitely think so.
Majority rule.
At least we can "step out" of it and better reflect on it. Seeing what could be. Relatively speaking: we all can and do to different degrees.
Oh man, I am delusional! Gladly.
Edit:
Ok, I have to say it: didn't expect that, aye?
And I am definitely not the only scientist who assumes, presupposes, this.
It explains a lot.