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This doesn't surprise me.

It's central to understand that mental health can alter perception and judgment, even common mental illnesses like depression and anxiety.

I have chronic depression, and even after treating it for 15 years, I still realizes after the fact, despite being attentive to how I behave, that I just think differently when I am depressed.

It's very common for mentally ill people to think they are being persecuted. We also should still inform people more about mental illness, so both are true.

Illnesses that involves psychosis are not a joke and more severe than your average depression, and sadly I would be careful and not 100% trustworthy of somebody who is having such illness.



Truth. This manifests as stigma, however, and needs awareness to compensate for.




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