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The more that you think your mind is you, the more mentally ill you get. So simple example, most severe mental illness, hallucinations and delusions.
So when we look at psychotic disorders, psychotic disorders are some of the worst on the planet in terms of prognosis. People get worse. People have die 10, 20 years earlier than they normally would. Really bad.
And what happens in psychotic disorders, the mind produces a thought and we are not able to recognize that that thought could be false. The thought becomes reality. So, you know when people say your thoughts are not facts, like absolutely right. Every time I imagine being a millionaire or I imagine that clever comeback for when that dude made fun of me and oh yeah, if I had said this, I would totally own them. Ah, they'd learned their lesson. That's not reality. Our thoughts are not reality.
When we believe our thoughts are reality, we become mentally ill. That's what we call psychosis. That's what we call delusions.
A little bit healthier than that is something like panic attacks, where your mind is really telling you, "Oh my god, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die." But then there's a part of you that's like, wait a second, I'm not really going to die, but it really feels like I'm going to die. I'm really going to die. I'm really going to die. I know I'm not going to die, but really I'm going to die. So, there's a little bit of doubt in the mind.
Then we get to things like an anxiety disorder, which is arguably less severe. And that's when, okay, I'm worried about this. I know it's kind of not true, but I'm really worried and it's hard. How do I get rid of this anxiety? See, the person who's delusional doesn't try to get rid of the delusion because they think it's true. The person with anxiety at least knows, hey, this is anxiety. This is not real. So there's separation between you and your