My mind has tried to play tricks on me, probably. I feel ill, but not sick. I have a doctor's appointment to talk about anxiety tomorrow, although I actually want to discuss the symptoms of my imagined disease. I might actually have a deadly disease, but I think that I probably have imagined it instead. I have a long list of tests papers and projects to finish, but I do think I can make real use of the skills I will master by doing my schoolwork correctly. The stress, though pleasant, may have triggered an unpleasant state of mind which resembled a melt-down when I tried to go to sleep last night. I freaked the F. out, quietly and privately, and tried to go to sleep despite the difficult and unpleasant images which slid before my inner eyes. I did not like it.
I have gone so far into this fantasy that I contemplated going to the ER at 4 a.m. I feel like I have excellent arguments for my delusion, and I just don't feel well, either, a tiny little bit.
Am I a well man who imagines he is sick or a sick man who imagines unconvincingly that he is well? That's a rhetorical question, actually. That sentence represents the bizarre distortions of reality which the verb TO BE allows.
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"I find that the best way [to increase self-confidence] is to lie to yourself about who you are, what you've done, and where you're going." - Richard Ayoade