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In reply to the discussion: Witchwind: "No woman is heterosexual" [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Serious question. I'm wondering what the term is for someone who has that sort of paranoid relationship with reality.
I mean, really, what I see is this sort of apocalyptic worldview with several common characteristics, including heavy duty paranoia, conspiracy thinking, black and white reasoning, the tendency to attribute all evils in the world to one force or "original sin", an unrealistic "garden of eden" state pre-"fall"... I fully realize that much of what I'm describing gels with the religious beliefs of many fundamentalists, too.
So you are absolutely right that mental illness the diagnostic term isn't really fair, because the people struggling with that and getting help aren't who I'm talking about, in fact the descriptor far better applies to many people out in the world who many societies regard even as "virtuous".