Yeah, the brain adjusts pretty quickly to different levels and extents of hardship. And being delusional about being persecuted doesn’t mean the experience of feeling persecuted is different. You just don’t experience… you know… the underlying persecution. That’s why there are entire cultures built around seeking out justifications that persecution is happening. If they need to constantly scrounge up shit that happened in 2018 to feel the same levels of fear as someone who’s actually marginalized by society, they will.