Apologies. Edited.

I wouldn't know what to call it, but it is defiantly a thing, people getting a bit too deep into weird stuff on the internet to the point it starts negatively affecting their lives.

I assume the comment youre referring to had an explicit mention of "schizophrenia," that was edited out. So I agree with the clarification you make.

I have an experience though, that ive been wondering about since it happened. Not an experience with schizophrenia, but experience with psychotic break from reality.

I was canvassing a few years ago for abortion rights. I visited the house of a white guy, and we immediately started talking about conspiracy shit. This was before I had learned "dont waste time talking to people you can't activate," the fact is I have a morbid interest in people who are infatuated with conspiracies. In my defense, it was the end of the day and there weren't any more houses in the neighborhood.

We talked about 5g mind control, hollow earth, and reptoids. It was a trip. We had one of my favorite political interactions:

"Well its not like youre a socialist" actually I am a socialist. "OK but youre not a communist" Actually I am a communist. " yeah but not a Marxist communist" I dont know what to tell ya buddy, I am a Marxist communist. a dozen emotions flash across his face within about 2 seconds of stunned silence.

I thought it was very funny, told the story to my comrades, we had a hell of a laugh about it.

My memory is all scrambled from this time, but it must have been 2-3 days later, our state held the vote to preserve abortion rights. My wife and I went to a bar with the rest of the people in our local campaign, watched the election and celebrated with comrades. And we won! Afterward we went home, my wife went to bed, and I smoked a little weed.

And something inside of me broke.