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Honestly I think the scariest part of all this is how it shows that all it takes to drive someone off the deep end is for someone or something that person trusts to merely agree with whatever idea pops into a person's head. I guess it makes sense, we use reinforcement to learn what we think is true and often have bad ideas, but still, I'd always been under the impression that humans were a bit more mentally resilient than that.
I think when we get down to it, none of us can actually separate reality from imagination accurately - after all, our perceptions of reality all exist inside our minds and are informed by our imaginations. People who are outwardly crazy seem to be placing the line between reality and fantasy at a very different place to anyone else, but we all put the line in a slightly different place.
Compare people who believe in conspiracy theories, or horoscopes, or conflicting religions for instance. What I'm trying to say is that "crazy people" are not really so different from the rest of us.