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Suffering a distortion of perspective. From focus, trauma, drugs, obsession...

• mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
  There’s a huge difference between having a distorted world view because of ignorance or knowledge or whatever and being clinically diagnosed with a mental illness. For example, someone that seems very self involved, a trait of immaturity and youth, isn’t the same as someone with narcissistic personality disorder as defined here: https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/materials/Narc.Pers.DSM.pdf https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/materials/Narc.P...
  • swayvil 4y ago
    Never discount the power of long, intense, sustained focus to wreck your perspective.