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When You Miss the Intensity of Delusional Experience

My delusions were so real and meaningful that part of me misses them even though I know they were hurting me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The vivid meaningfulness of psychotic experience can create nostalgia for states of consciousness that were simultaneously destructive and transcendent.

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