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the psychological pain a drug addict feels when he/she runs out of dope.
Disillusionment is however not rare, this happens when we have trusted a friend with our saved money for investment, or with our dependants for their welfare in upbringing etc., and that friend finally thinks it better for him not to retain the trust reposed on him. This may however finally prove to be due to our ̳ignorance‘ of the real nature of the person trusted, but that does not change the nature of our disillusionment. When the truth is revealed, then there is total shattering of the belief and disillusionment in him. Not only that the shattering is such that our belief in our own worth or capacity is totally lost many a time. The illusion or belief of having a friend is shattered. We leave the fictitious world of what we thought was the truth and enter the quite opposite reality of having no friend. This is actually a crisis of identity. When a belief in identity is shattered, then there is the feeling that life is over because we are not who we thought (intelligent?) we were.
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