Dr. K

Tangential.

But so here's the key thing with thoughts.

The key thing that we want to do is have distance from them, which is beautiful what you said.

So I'll give you a good example of this.

If we look at mental illness and we rank the severity of mental illness, what we find is the worst mental illness has no space.

between stimulus and response.

So when someone has psychosis or is delusional, I've had patients who will say, there is an electronic device in my brain that is shaping my thoughts.

This sentence that they say is a thought in their head, but there is no space between this is a thought and this is reality.

They can't separate observing themselves thinking or doing.

Exactly.

Right.

So the thought is real.

It's delusional.

It's delusional.

And the nature of delusion is when you believe your thoughts are real.

Yes.

Literally.

And I'm going to show you this beautiful scale.

So there's psychosis, which is the worst.

Then there is things like, let's say you have a mood disorder where I think I'm a loser.