Conservative65
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It is a sign of a mental illness when you need to escape from the real world into fantasy land and it starts to interfere in your life as a normally functioning human being! That is like the definition of mental illness!!! Lol. Now, we could go and say just about anything is "normal" if it makes someone feel they are escaping from reality. ANYTHING. You need to learn to cope with and deal with your reality in order to be a healthy and functional person. That is the reason WHY people do these things. They are unhealthy emotionally/mentally and cannot cope with reality.
People escape reality in books, movies, music, games, art, drugs, meditation. We escape reality in our dreams and imagination.
We would be very dull and uncreative if we did not escape a bit. We would truly go mad if we did not escape sometimes. Everyone needs to find a space and shut the rest of the world out and find a place of peace and happiness. Our vacations are escapes from reality of our day to day lives. We go on fantasy adventures and cruises to escape. We are willing to spend a great deal of money to find place so far from our reality and pretend we are in a different world or time. We role play with out spouses of loved ones.
The world is insane since we all fantasize and seek escape, even in our sleep.
The ones that don't that should be locked up as they are pressure cookers about to explode with no vent to blow off steam.
We vent, fantasize and escape on forums like this. How many pretend they know more or can solve the problems of the world by a few posts?
We all have our escapes, even over a cup of tea.
I think you realize that this is not the same thing at all. This woman needs psychiatric help! You are NOT helping her or people like her by feeding the delusions. You hurt them!
If she did not have have an escape, would you prefer she become suicidal or dangerous? Reality is not so great a place for some people or at some times.
After war, many people seek an escape of sorts. Some don't come back, others find a balance between two worlds. I escaped into my family and shut much of the world out for years. I would not listen to news or get involved in discussion beyond work, home and a bit of entertainment. Some never enter the horrors of the real world, they are protected by family and friends. How real is that?
She might have a brain injury, or ingested some poison or mold. There might be no other reality for her and she is happy where she is. You are not in her shoes and should give her some benefit for her individuality. We have hippies and bohemians that still live in the 60's. We have people that live beyond society off the grid and live off the land. To some that is insane. I've lived at the ends of the world and now thing anyone that chooses to live in the snow is insane, or too young to know better. You might think people willing to join the army and go to war is insane. We all have our standards of sanity.
Maybe people that spray paint their body and stand around as statues all day are insane? Maybe people that join fantasy role playing games are insane............ad maybe it is just their way of escape and regrouping.
Maybe the world is insane and only those who can find escape and peace, their own nirvana are the same ones.
Good grief. You cannot be serious with all of this garbage. The woman needs a psychiatrist. There is nothing else for you to argue about.
The woman has a psychiatrist that says she might grow out of it. Maybe she will go into cat grooming or behaviorist. She might be a cat sitter or write books about cats. How do you know if she can be a productive person and still be a cat? She believes she has cat DNA, she has cat behavior, she has night vision.
It might be a fad of sorts or something she will live with her whole life, so what? Lycanthropy is a real syndrome that people manage to live with. Many shaman believe in animalism and being possessed by animals spirits. Tribes believe they descended from animals or birds. They manage to live productive lives.
If she want to wear cat ears on a head band, fuzzy gloves and wear of tail, who is she hurting? If she wants to walk on all fours and is afraid of dogs, what is the harm? A lot of people purr when satisfied or touched in tender ways. So what?
Maybe some her marbles are a bit out of place, but that does not mean she is missing any of them. She is not undergoing physical operations to replace her skin or bones. She is articulate enough in her language that she is making videos and giving interviews. She might turn her "cat" into a fortune and purr all the way to the bank.
Stop trying to lock her up. If she wants to tell the world she is a cat, let her.
How crazy can she really be?
She thinks she's a cat and you have to ask that question.