The real world is not an entirely pleasant place, as anyone who’s lived a few years can probably attest to. There are times and there are things that some people either don’t want to have to deal with, or can’t find it in themselves to handle. Many people struggle on with life looking for ways to release the pressure, the stress, and the insanity just a little more often than regular folks. However, for some, the world is just too cruel, or too harsh, or too depressing. For those people, the only real way to relieve the problems of daily life and the world around them is to be completely cut off from it. Some retreat into mountain caves and live their lives out as hermits, but others turn their dislike inwards and end up developing some form of psychosis.
Psychosis can sometimes be a blanket term used to describe a wide range of mental health disorders that deal with a total detachment from reality itself. Unlike problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, psychosis does not only affect how a person perceives the world. Certainly, perception of reality does play a role in the symptoms of the condition, but most cases show a more...