What the heck makes you think psychosis is very rare? Over 3% of the population will experience it in their lifetime[1]. That isn't "very rare" in the slightest

What the heck makes you think psychosis is very rare? Over 3% of the population will experience it in their lifetime[1]. That isn't "very rare" in the slightest. People might not talk about it, because they are ashamed, there is still a big stigma against mental illness. I've known quite a few people who had/has psychosis, including family members. One person I knew (an acquaintance) spent as much of the time sleeping as possible because it was the only time the voices ever stopped. They always told her to do horrible things, such as light herself on fire and she wanted very bad to escape them. She tried to live as normal of a life as possible out in public, however she often had very bad "breakdowns" in private. For all the author knows he worked so hard because that was his escape from the psychosis and one day the psychosis got out of hand. I had a friend once who told me about his friend (someone I never met). The only way his friend could tell the difference between real people and the people he hallucinated was his hallucinations didn't have shadows. [1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17199051 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17199051