Creating stories isn't the minds number one activity for no reason. It's a tremendous survival tool.

On one hand it helps us make sense of the past, learn from mistakes etc, on the other hand it creates possible scenarios for the future. Being able to imagine possible futures is the difference between survival and death.

But this survival tool, like any tool, can be misused. That happens when we start to take the stories of the mind for reality instead of possible realities.

In extreme cases this ends in insanity, where people get lost inside of their mind, unable to compare the story with reality. They get lost in the story.

Being human comes with this danger, this challenge.