Understanding the 'Observer Effect' in Relation to Reality and Mental Health

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Please someone help me!

I am suffering from severe depression after seeing philosophical videos (deepak chopra is one of them) about reality. Many of them talking that reality is an illusion and nothing exists, and used quantum physics as a reference (the observer effect). Others simply say the reality is nothing but illusion and nothing really exists, It's just that our brain creates physical things, and that the space between molecules are "empty", how could something be solid?
I'm really lost, I do not know where to go.
All of this bothers me a lot - '

Is the 'observer effect' a proof to all of this crazy stuff?
 
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Rajkovic said:
I am suffering from severe depression

I highly recommend you see a professional medical provider if you feel you are depressed. Thread locked.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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