Can anyone offer some advice or tips that helped them to cope with thought/emotion broadcasting? Aside from medication. There must be some tips or tools that someone has learned to combat such a hellish symptom. I want to reestablish my grasp on reality, the happy reality that I once new, and thought broadcasting certainly was not a part of my life prior to my first psychotic break.
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How long have you been experiencing thought broadcasting? I thought somewhere on the forum you said you started your symptoms years ago. How have you gotten along for this long?
Faith with a lot of suffering sprinkled on top.
I’ve managed to entirely suppress my own inner monologue, as well as most of my emotional responses. This has taken years and probably wasn’t the healthiest choice.
As a result, my mind feels like I’d imagine an animal in a cage must feel. It makes a peep, I shove it right back down.
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I’ve been thinking about this… I honestly don’t remember how I coped when I wasn’t deep in psychosis but had thought broadcasting. I know that I wrote extensively on the subject, I found those writings years later and it seems I was going through hell, but I don’t remember living it, if it makes any sense, my mind must’ve blocked the memories.
I remember when it came back and I was in deep psychosis though, I honestly believed I could read people’s minds and that people could read mine. So I didn’t cope, I just went with it.
What is the underlying reason for that belief, though? There must be something, for me it was that I was God, so naturally, I could know people’s thoughts. You must have a reason of your own. Maybe thinking objectively about that reason can help you demystify the belief. Maybe we can help you with that.
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I have that problem too. It seems like anything despicable that I wouldn’t want to broadcast I can’t help but broadcast - racial ■■■■, sexist ■■■■, other despicable stuff. It seems like people’s reactions follow the same pattern - after an initial angry reaction they say, “Oh well. He’s not all there.” Nevertheless it is still a trial for everybody. If you ever find out anything that stops it, let me know.
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It’s religious in nature. But in a very complex, technological, terrifying way. I could explain it all, but it would be very complex. Roll Christianity, simulated reality, the “Outside,” and soulless aliens into one horrific hellish ball and you’d have a quick glimpse.
I refuse to even speak the G-word, let alone equate myself with it. I’m terrified of it. Sometimes at least.
Sometimes I feel like an illness in the human body must feel while its white blood cells are treating other important cells as “foreign” and attacking them, to the detriment of said human body.
I sure hope my mind eventually blocks out the hell that has been these past several years.
Well, culture does a number on your susceptible minds. Society’s conditionings, as the name implies, conditions us to use our imagination in favor of certain belief systems. Some of us see way past that, and imagine entire realities based solely on our creativity. Then, certain common symptoms that are part of the psychotic illnesses come to play, and we’re at the mercy of the chemical reactions in our brains.
Things don’t have meaning, in the broader sense of things, we give them meaning.
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Did you ever experience pressure/tingling in your “third eye” (I dislike that term) area while thought broadcasting? The sensation certainly doesn’t help with the delusion any.
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I think it’s psychosomatic…
Had to Google that lol but I have seen evidence in the past week or so that it could be stress-induced, because these supplements are meant to repair damaged adrenal function and since I’ve started this regimen my psychosomatic symptoms have VASTLY improved.
https://www.mentalhealthforum.net/forum/thread140455.html
User Idk73’s posts in that thread sum up very perfectly most of the things that I’ve experienced. Too similar for comfort. But the simulation thing, I can’t even entertain that idea anymore. It’s just total garbage to me. Like you said before, whether it is or isn’t this is home and I used to love it here. And I surely can again. Or you said something like that lol
I’m reading the post. I went through exactly the same thing, except the story behind it. So have many others here. The coughs, the thinking people are responding to our thoughts, the positive/negative reactions, the idea of simulation. Just the story behind it is different, though.
I don’t have an answer for this, just that our minds play tricks on us.
Like that thing with the black shadows, it’s the specific part of the brain that is stimulated and we see them, doesn’t mean that they’re there.
Or when you put two people with the I’m Jesus delusion in the same room and they both come out saying the other one is crazy.
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Oh yeah the Jesus thing, I’ve been there too. Thought I was ushering in the Second Coming. Thought I was in hell for 6 months. Still question whether or not I actually did die sometimes.
I’m confident that there are neurological answers to these shared symptoms, and that once we understand more about it these things will make sense from a more “human” perspective. Because the commonalities are too, well, common to ignore.
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They’re just sub-symptoms of the big psychosis symptom, though. Not much too it.
What’s the big psychosis symptom? For real not patronizing I just don’t know it
For me “simulation” could also mean “experimental planet and species created/governed by hyper-intelligent aliens beings,” not just the virtual reality nonsense. Maybe because that view brings me more comfort, but idk.
That’s not to say that I believe any of this, not anymore outside of the realms of fictional writing endeavors. But still.
Psychosis is a symptom of schizophrenia and other disorders. 
You’re definitely not alone in that belief, but until proof of the contrary, I’m just assuming it as brain malfunction 
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Okay so I read it as like “the big symptom of psychosis,” not “the big /psychosis/ symptom”
Idk I misunderstood but I get it now
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@Minnii Did the weird forehead/brain feelings symptoms ever stop entirely for you with treatment? Because I really hope so.
Yeah, entirely. Took a while though, but everyone is different, can be faster for you.
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