Doing/saying things for effect. Be the bad guy or the bad girl or whatever role you play..whatever hat you wear. Be the tough guy or the smart guy or the take-charge guy who can do everything better than anyone because he is smarter than anyone. It's all scripted/fake/phony/pretend. Can someone who lives/lived in pretend world get it confused with real world? Does that mean such someone is truly and really and actually divorced from reality and suffers from severe mental dysfunction and doesn't realize it?