Comment by fjdjshsh

I find talking about X psychosis (or generally using mental illness metaphors) unproductive. It sets up the conversation to be "nothing else to do with this person".

Maybe the problem is you, but you won't figure that out if you think the other person has psychosis.

For example, maybe you need to do a better job explaining, changing your language, simplifying things, being more concrete with consequences.

Or maybe you aren't understanding that the other person has different objectives/ loss function that makes them make seemingly weird conclusions.