I stay away from restaurants and fast food eateries because I’m afraid that some ■■■■■■■ is going to drug my food or drink.
The thing is I go on vacation this September and don’t know how I’m going to eat?
I will only eat sealed foods like the kind you buy from the market.
I was better with this before but it’s worsened again.
I think that it’s a Schiz/OCD symptom.
Anyone else like this?
Yes, I was convinced the hospital was poisoning me.
I thought the soup in the hospital was laced with poison. But I’m ok now. But that soup tasted funny. I thought they put sedatives in it to keep us docile…
The closest I got to that was on my first psychotic break and subsequent hospitalization. I’ve been ok about it ever since.
It sounds like paranoia more than anything else. Are you getting increased paranoia with other things too?
Yeah unfortunately I get paranoid frequently.
No I think I’m getting anxious over going on vacation this September.
I’m going to the shore for a week.
We’ll be going to stay in this large Hotel.
I don’t know how I’m going to eat!
I have to rely on restaurants and I’m too paranoid to eat the food there!
Geez, that’s a tough position to be in. We’re at the mercy of our meds really. But there’s no rule that says you have to eat at the hotel restaurant anyway.
Could you make a “leap of faith” and try eating out before you go as practice? I.e. Would confronting it work?
I tried going to eat in a restaurant today but couldn’t do it.
I think that I’m going to bring canned/ sealed foods from home.
Yeah, I’ve had that problem. Better now but I do watch like a hawk. I also check all my food seals, and I throw things away if someone else opened it first.
Are you going alone? Do you think they are going to tamper with the other people’s food or just yours?
I’m going with other people (family)
There is a Supermarket in town.
Maybe I’ll eat sealed food from there.
Are they understanding about that kind of thing? If you think the food they eat is going to be OK, can you order family style, or have someone else order your food, you order theirs, and then swap?
Some pizza restaurants make the whole pizza in front of you and you can see them put it in and take it out of the oven. There’s also a mexican restaurant chain that does that. I don’t know if it’s in your area though.
How about just letting go of the delusion?
I think that meds are supposed to be good at tackling delusions isn’t it so?
Perhaps you need a med switch?
IMO either try to overcome the delusion on your own and, if impossible as it sometimes is,
try a med change.
I’ll manage somehow @everhopeful @twinklestars @Erez_Shmerling.
My family is understanding.
Yeah I kind of trust pizzerias.
The food is prepared in front of you usually.
There have been times when I thought people were putting Haldol in my food and drink. One time when I was in the hospital I was eating lunch on the ward. When they put my plate in front of me I was sure there was a massive dose of Haldol in it, and I stood up and took it to the desk and told them to send it to a lab to have tests done on it to see if they had put Haldol in my food. The irony of it is that behavior probably got me a much bigger dose of Haldol after I saw the pdoc.
I’ve gotten a bit better over the years by just doing it… Although I have places I go and basically trust, so a brand new place is a bit of a leap of faith.
The worst that has happened to me is every few years I will get a bout of food poisoning, but I intellectually know it was probably the the result of poor hygiene and unintended.
I’m pretty sure there were a few occasions when my food was drugged. I mostly try to do the same thing of making sure food is all sealed and no signs of tampering
With me it’s not really a delusion.
In college I’m pretty sure someone drugged my food with a hallucinogen.
It’s more of a fear thing with me.
Don’t ever want to feel like this again.
Yeah that’s the same experience I had. I think it’s understandable to be worried about as a result. I don’t really have any advice I can think of though to help
The chances of that happening outside of college, frat parties, or a rave is very very small. No one wants to waste hallucinogens which they could sell on some random guy in a restaurant.
I still won’t take a drink I didn’t see poured myself though.
Yeah especially being female.
Im the opposite i eat out all the time because i worry people come into my home while im out and poison it. I never drunk tap water because i think there were sedatives and mind control subsstances and the water filter.