Capgras syndrome

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Schizophrenia , especially paranoid hallucinatory schizophrenia , can cause episodes of Capgras syndrome. Schizophrenia also affects one’s sense of reality and can cause delusions. In rare cases, a brain injury that causes cerebral lesions can also cause Capgras syndrome.

I think I have paranoid schizophrenia because I have capgras so it’s more likely. This is the one thing that is convincing me that I have sz. Because the delusions I believe are real. So this is all that serves as evidence. And it means that my visions were false at times. So it means that my other visions were false as well. My visions I think are another sign I have sz. Because some of them are obviously false. But then I wonder if this came from trauma instead of sz. Thinking that they’re out to get me is also another sign of paranoid sz. So that might be what is happening. Even though I think it’s real.

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It’s good that you are accepting your diagnosis @flowers20 . It’s a step in the right direction.

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Do you see any other signs with me that I have sz?

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Yes. The fact that you think your boyfriend is the devil and the whole N. Korea thing are delusions that fit in well with the sz diagnosis.

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We’re not doctors and can’t confirm your diagnosis.

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That said, you do seem to have symptoms of solz. You should discuss all of this with your pdoc.

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Do you have the sz diagnosis or no @flowers20 ?

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Yes I do but they never met my boyfriend. And my history is made up by me faking it so I don’t think it’s that reliable. But when I think of it I ended up in a lake because I heard a voice telling me which sounds typical of sz. And the things I’m afraid of happen in movies but not real life I would think.

But it’s like I imagined myself acting out in a mental hospital before I ended up in the mental hospital. So that seems movie-like. But being in a mental hospital is more common than ending up in North Korea as dictator, right?

Anyone?

I just need to tell myself that the conspiracies are junk nonsense. But that doesn’t really help because some people do believe in it.

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Yes, this is much more common than ending up in N. Korea as a dictator, if that’s the question you want answered. Seems like that should be obvious though…

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why do you call it delusions if you think they are real? So part of you realizes that it are delusions then?

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Because the theme sounds delusional. Like someone being out to get me. That sounds delusional. But I’m worried it’s real in my case.

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Ever since I had my hell fears, I’m just grateful for feeling comfortable. But now things feel too perfect because I’m happy if I’m comfortable due to my gratefulness. But when things feel too perfect, I worry something bad will happen.

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I also worry now that I might not have capgras, that the people I know were replaced by clones and this is real. That Capgras is a separate condition with not people like me. Since I believe pretty much everyone is a clone around me. Not just family members. But I had Cotard’s briefly too so I don’t know.

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