Is it normal to be confused about your mental state?

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I don't know, I'm so easily influenced by spontaneous things on the internet that aren't even relevant to my current life situations. I could read a random novella where the main character has a disruptive case of insomnia, and afterwards I won't sleep until 5am. It's only temporary; the episode ending right when I lose interest in said "main character," and I'll become infatuated with something else.

An example of this was when a character in (I won't tell you ya cheeky bums) had schizophrenia and was a psychopath... I spent a little over a year believing that voices spoke to me whilst remaining indifferent to life-threatening situations, manipulating my family on the way. Though this... Episode has ended, I'm beginning to wonder if this obsessive behavior is a disorder? Do I enjoy disorders? Is the fact that I think it's a disorder proving the theory, or is it just my obsession with disorders trying to fit myself into one...? I hate myself for this so badly; I'm always so f**king suspicious of my own emotions.

Does anyone else feel like this?
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Is it normal?

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Based on 12 votes (4 yes)
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  • kingofcarrotflowers
    7 years ago

    Well i just read this and i can just tell it's going to send me down a rabbit hole of creeping paranoia about self and and overly self analytical sleepless night so im going with yes

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    • kingofcarrotflowers
      7 years ago

      And holy shit everything ffrom im starting to wonder onwards was like having a conversation with myself at night when my mind"s really going for it

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  • Terence_the_viking
    7 years ago

    Yep.

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  • Ellenna
    7 years ago

    If your real life is boring, pointless or scary it's quite normal to escape from it: I used to escape into characters from books.

    However, it would be better if you could build yourself an interesting real life, because the extent to which you obsessively escape into unreality doesn't sound healthy to me

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  • eatmetoo
    7 years ago

    If you are a girl don't start watching a lot of porn movies.

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    • Ellenna
      7 years ago

      Or a boy either ...

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  • Weltanschauung
    7 years ago

    It sure doesn't sound normal. But if it helps I used to have this, albeit to a much milder degree. I would adopt traits of a character if I liked them or if they appeared to have a prominent presence. I like to label it as having a chameleonic personality but I think it could stem from having a poor/unstable/impressionable self-identity.

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