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“The power of an illusion or delusion is that the mind races and the heart pounds in fear of the imagined, the unreal truth. During psychosis and extreme mental illness, the mind’s reality undergoes a breach; and the mind, the Great Fort, is itself broken.”

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Book:The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel
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