During my university years, my parents and aunt came on a trip to the region where my university was located.
At that time, my mother said something like, “You might find a boyfriend and get married soon.”
I was astonished that she was completely out of touch with reality, as I was struggling with everyday relationships, let alone having a boyfriend, and was suffering from neurosis.
I think that people like my mother, who have problems with their mental state and personality structure, and suffer from anxiety disorder, lose their attention and understanding of reality due to the tension and anxiety within their minds (I myself am the same).
They live in a world of fantasy, detached from reality, and are unreliable.
In Dr. Masatake Morita’s book, “The Path to Self-Awareness and Enlightenment,” Keiji Mizutani, who received inpatient therapy as a patient of Dr. Morita, describes his life leading up to the onset of his neurosis and his life during inpatient therapy. He also describes how Dr. Morita instructed him to “look closely at the flowers and plants in the garden,” and how he looked at the plants and watered them.
Ms. Mizutani writes about an experience where she continued watering plants even after they had withered, without realizing it, and was reprimanded by Dr. Morita for it. I think that patients with mental disorders or neuroses, due to anxiety, may have difficulty perceiving and responding to reality, and may mechanically take or continue to take actions that are detached from reality.
I think my mother’s detached comments are similar in some ways.
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