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> Some disorders are caused not by disconnection from reality, but rather too accurate a view of reality.

Yeah, I've heard this about depression. [1]

> Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Yvonne Abramson that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals' appraisals are positively biased.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism




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