Yeah I know it doesn’t quite fit here, but we don’t have !videos yet.
Yeah, that's a big nah from me. Human beings by nature seek to explain the world through narrative. Even something as fundamental as the self is merely a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. It. Reality insofar as we can perceive it arrives to us in the form of narrative. Saying someone is addicted to narratives is like saying someone is addicted to oxygen
I think the word you’re looking for is answers not narratives, an narrative and an answer to the world are not mutually exclusive, if one has a narrative in them wholeheartedly, then there is a spiritual and emotional aspect to it, but if one merely has an answer to how the world works, it is but a piece of the could-be narrative or is left on the individual’s own consciousness left only in logical understanding.
I always thought I was a Jim, turns out I was a Dwight this whole time.
I think as other commenters have said its pretty natural to try to make sense of things through narratives (otherwise fiction wouldn't exist). So not really a disorder in any way. However, due to the atomized nature of capitalism, and the constant use of large scale commercialized fiction, this makes some sense as just an outcome of capitalism. When everything is atomized, and you are told that everything is due to your own actions ("pull yourself up by your bootstraps") it might be more likely that you begin to insert yourself as a heroic character into mainstream plotlines.
