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This is a great perspective. Thank you for bringing it up, mate.
Who's to say what an illusion/reality is or not? Who has that ultimate authority? I would take what the medical industry and psychiatry say about delusions and mental illnesses with a pinch of salt.
I see this happen with mental illness too. It's too common that people inflict their misunderstandings on those who they think are mentally ill instead of earnestly asking them how they feel and what their motivations are, and even for those who do they often distrust that person's self-assessment and perspective because if you're crazy you're considered unreliable or dishonest. Then that person takes on those misconceptions because of the sheer brute force of it, they get worse, and whoever was doing the assessing gets to pat themselves on the back for their self-fulfilling prophecy. It's an accidental way to control people through your own fear, worry and pride, things that only you're responsible for.
Try applying that logic on a schizophrenic who knows what a psychotic episode is and how much relief even temporary or to functional level some medicine gives them from their delusions. Yes there is a vested interest one related to the safety of the individual and from some articles of their victims. And yes it comes at monetary cost, but so do most things. I read many stories of people suffering from mental illness where some medications just fix them. Doctors have never lied to me they told me there are many neurons in the human body and they aren't at the stage yet to control the behaviour of them but also told me that they don't even know how or why some medications work but they do work, but not with everyone.
