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>>21889413
That's mental illness in a nutshell.

Imagine this: For some reason, you get the sudden feeling there is a lion in your basement. Naturally, you know that's fucking insane. But, somehow it feels like one is there anyway. When you hear the heating unit in your house kick on, it sounds like a lion's roar, and when you feel footsteps from another room, you think "It must be that fucking lion". So you tell your father, and he takes you down to the basement. You check every corner of the basement -- no lion. You breathe a massive sigh of relief, and leave the basement. For a while, all is well... and then you feel the footsteps again. The fucking lion is there now. You knew it all along.

Of course it doesn't make any sense. Your brain is just perceiving stuff wrong. But logic doesn't really help, because deep down all humans go off intuition and sense, not logic. This might sound like I'm describing schizophrenia, but it applies to a whole range of mental illness like depression, bipolar, anorexia, body dysmorphia, etc. The suicidal person does not think straight because he cannot *feel* straight