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We're all watching you /s
minor trauma dump
The reason I put a sarcasm tone indicator on this is because last year I had a mental health crisis in which I broke from reality. I believed that some friends of mine had made me go viral, to the point that major corporations like youtube were getting in on the action. I was browsing Lemmy, and I thought I saw signs of this belief everywhere. A comment like mine without this kind of indicator would have reinforced that beliefI think it's really easy to feel like that in today's internet. The way algorithms automatically try to show you what they think you want to see, across different sites and apps .. if you are already falling into that state of mind, it could reinforce it easily. I'm glad you're doing better now
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That sounds really disturbing to go through, I hope you’re feeling at least somewhat better now! If you don’t mind me asking, was there anything in particular that helped you reconnect with reality? Even if you don’t want to answer, thank you for sharing your experience.
Thank you! I've fully recovered and thankfully living a very fulfilling life since that occurred. I got out of it because my family knew something was wrong and checked me into the emergency department at a hospital, and then getting checked into a psych ward. The thing that snapped me back to reality was being brought to a padded room at about 2am. Once I realized my delusion, I started to quickly recover. I spent a week in the grippy sock hotel, and continued to regain my emotional stability for several months afterwards