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#31 How Imagination Can Make You Happy or Miserable

Minding the Brain

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How Do You Know if You Have a Mental Disorder?

People will just lie there and fantasize for hours or an entire weekend. People have reported canceling social engagements so they can engage in their fantasy. It sounds similarly similar to an addiction, like these compulsive activities. But the thing that they're addicted to is always available. That's really difficult because they just they're just addicted to their own fantasies.

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