William H. GassFreud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
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Psychosis is the act of having an unbalanced mental condition. It’s when people lose touch with reality and believe that they are living in a different world than that of everyone around them. Psychosis is the opposite of daydreaming. Daydreaming is when one imagines what it would be like to be somewhere else.
Psychosis is when people are living their daydreams, but instead of imagining themselves somewhere else, they are living in a world where they are alone. A person can experience psychosis while imagining themselves to be someone else, like if they imagine themselves to be someone else’s wife for instance. This happens often when people get bored with their lives and imagine a fantasy where they have a house full of servants and have everything going their way.
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