Mentalistic Terms

Being depressed, I often get into conversation to cheer myself up. I form some bothersome pseudobeliefs about my self and about events relating to myself and I talking with people can often shake these. I call them pseudobeliefs because they are temporary and not usually as “strong” as regular beliefs. The problem is that I am never sure if I should respond at the level of the pseudobeliefs or the beliefs for the conversation. I am not aware of a social custom or set of common by-words that would let me signal which one of these I am operating on. 

I think that other people have the experience of these two different sorts of beliefs and don’t usually distinguish which track they are running on. It’s easier that way but as someone devoted to precision I can’t much tolerate it. I think that the best way to get these distinctions to stick is to make new words that apply to the disjuncts or make new expressions to do likewise. In the age of the internet we are in I would suggest that second would be more realistic. Something catchy that would be at home on urban dictionary would be good bet.

I’m not actually sure how helpful this distinction would be for people who do not have some intrinsic desire to clarify communication like me, I document this case more as a description of a process I think is useful; even if this case is not useful I think that it is certainly the case that more mentalistic terms would be useful.