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When the brain edits reality without showing you the changes.
means A mental state where a person loses contact with reality, often through hallucinations or delusions.
from From Greek psyche (soul, mind) plus -osis (abnormal condition), coined in 1840s German psychiatry to mean a mental disorder broadly.
Not a diseaseA symptom, like fever, not a diagnosis.
Surprisingly commonRoughly 3 percent experience it at some point.
Many causesSleep loss, drugs, illness, and grief all qualify.