Oh, the mysteries of the human heart, A-G! What you describe here seems to be a very ancient human problem; for the Greeks, the Romans, and the Jews all had terms for it. Plato called it anoia, which loosely translates as "a flight from reason," or as nosos, a pathological state of consciousness. Aristotle called it nosemos -- same thing. The Jews called a man in the grip of this "disorder" a nabal, which is usually translated as "fool," but the word means far more than that, for it carries the idea of a conscious rejection of what is good. Cicero's aspernatio rationalis captures the idea of the rejection of, or contempt for reason. The Greeks, Romans, and Jews were in agreement that such is a pathological state, a sickness of the psyche: for to them, to reject the divine ground of the reality in which one has his place is just plain nutz.
Looking at our society today, I gather we have a raging epidemic of anoia on our hands! It's everywhere, even here at FR.... IMHO. FWIW.
I agree with you (again) - "we have a raging epidemic of anoia on our hands!"