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In psychiatry, insight means the ability to recognize when your behavior and thought patterns are coming from your mental illness as opposed to your regular self. For example: “I realize that the voices in my head aren't coming from real people, even though it really feels like they are.”

Insight can vary drastically in psychotic episodes. A person experiencing a full-blown episode of psychosis may not realize that the person sitting next to them on the bus can't also see that the bus is being driven by the Hindu deity Ganesh. Another person experiencing psychosis might slip in and out of insight, alternately realizing that their reality isn't shared and believing that it is. A third person might be aware the whole time that nobody else can see what they're seeing.