I’d guess that the people in question had a mostly normal air to them during the episode, just starting to say weird things?
Most people’s conception of a psychotic episode probably involves a sense of the person acting like a stereotypical obviously crazy person on the street. Whereas if it’s someone they already know and trust, just acting slightly more eccentric than normal, people seem likely to filter everything the person says through a lens of “my friend’s not crazy so if they do sound crazy, it’s probably a metaphor or else I’m misunderstanding what they’re trying to say”.
I’d guess that the people in question had a mostly normal air to them during the episode, just starting to say weird things?
Most people’s conception of a psychotic episode probably involves a sense of the person acting like a stereotypical obviously crazy person on the street. Whereas if it’s someone they already know and trust, just acting slightly more eccentric than normal, people seem likely to filter everything the person says through a lens of “my friend’s not crazy so if they do sound crazy, it’s probably a metaphor or else I’m misunderstanding what they’re trying to say”.
Yes.