Trusting and Suspicious Selves

I wonder if true selves have anything to do with true stories in both their telling and reading. Someone like Freud would have said there is no way of discerning between truth and fiction. For him, narrative is a move away from the real world - an assault on truth. Another way of saying this is that for Freud, all narrators are unreliable. The problematic, or at least so it seems to me, is one of trust and suspicion. At some point, we have to decide and keep deciding, who we trust and who we are suspicious of.