When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Marya Hornbacher
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When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. In the same way that people who are mad about a situation know it, but those who are not do not, people who believe in something cannot be swayed by others beliefs.

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

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