My positive symptoms have been nearly non existent, and my negatives are probably down to character flaws such as “laziness” (a complex category in itself once you get passed the knee jerk response). My so-called delusion was built to last insofar its philosophical foundations are difficult to entirely refute, but it is under control. I can pretend to be normal from here until judgmement day, and if I can pretend that long is because I’m not pretending at all. WHat do you think?
I tried to convince mine I was bipolar once not sza. He shut it down. Sometimes they see something in us we might not be able to see in ourselves
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I asked for a re-diagnosis, and the doctor refused to entertain it mainly because the Covid situation and resources to pick apart my history.
Now I think back to my psychosis and multiple episodes, I really don’t think it will change
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what would it change?
So you have zero delusions?
I would no longer be branded.
how has the branding affected you?
That’s a hard one. I have over the 2 last years entertained many thought-experiments, usually centred around themes of solipsism and escathology. Admittedly, some have a delusional edge to them, but I’ve always been able to function and retained full insight.
I feel some of my utterances on existential stuff have been discredited for the wrong reasons.
critics are your best friend if your ideas have been discredited why don’t you refine them?
I have. By discredited I mean discredited by doctors and nurses.
they’re highly experienced and have been exposed to many ideas by many walks of life, what if they’re right?
correct me if i’m wrong but I think what we’ve discovered is that you want to be taken seriously.
my next question is why?
I don’t need or expect my “unusual beliefs” to be taken seriously. But neither i relish having my inner life medicalised.
if it’s your inner life how do they know about it?
Through interviews and observing my behaviour while at hospital. We humans (if that’s what I am) are well equipped to read each other’s mind.
that’s interesting, can you explain it for me?
Yeah, but the uncertainty is killing me.
I get the same.
Not sure where you’re based, but where I live you have to go nuclear on mental health professionals to get them to listen.
Recovery model (Dogma) is missing some components, and I don’t see that changing any time soon
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That’s a red flag for delusional thinking straight away.
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