Delusional or Just Bored?

I think there is a wiener measuring contest with the posts about delusions. I myself only post about symptoms when asked or when the topic is salient, that or if I am having an episode.

Let’s all just not make a competition about who is the craziest.

I win the weightlifting and MMA tournaments on this site though. lol

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IDK for myself bringing them out in the open just seems to me to give them more power so don’t generally do it. This forum does give me the opportunity to see I’m not so much alone and a freak from having them. Also to vent a little even if it’s just to talk around them. Is also a point that these are real people at the end of their computers. Life generally does suck. So is also a possibility it’s not a delusion or a lie. So try not to jump to conclusions.

Jayne, I agree - there are 4 separate issues.

  1. They don’t know they’re delusional.
  2. They do know they’re called schizophrenic and delusional.
  3. They think their insights are helpful to others.
  4. They don’t know they are delusional about that.

To lighten up this thread a bit I will say boredom can lead to delusions…having absolutely nothing to do, or just choosing not to do the things you can do can lead to delusions, or in some cases revelations…

I shall jokingly boast I was once the supreme Rock star who was going to have a band more popular than Black Sabbath, as if I could outdo Ozzy and his band. I believed I was a spirit of eternity who gave Ozzy his songs.
I also entertained being King of the world, the POTUS, King of Scotland, Supreme handler of the USSR, and designed a diatribe of politics that would work. I could destroy the Antichrist. I could be the Supreme Sorcerer and Prophet of God. I led an army of priests against the Prince of darkness and prevailed, with the ability to survive death numerous times, with the help of Jesus and a few friends. I led a faction in a US civil war in the 1990s, with small details of hunting in the woods with an axe to smash kegs at beer parties, and closing down porn shops and X rated theaters by instigating mobs of righteous people. (Hey, many of the porn shops and x rated theaters really DID close after that! Perhaps it was the power of INTENT, so that may have been a manifest 'delusion")

I had thousands of pages in handwritten form from about age 17 - 24 detailing all this. Honestly I was just writing stories but I lived them in my mind and came to begin to believe in them. Entities both human and non human even spoke to me, manifest. I could have probably (realistically) become a master science fiction and alternative history writer.

Anyways, boasting about delusions, there I done did it…

(I left the Angels, Aliens, Elves and Faeries out, them all is real)

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If I was only 25 - 32 you may have some competition, probably not the MMA as I never got into any competition, but did get into IDF training (Krav maga) at one point then…LOL.
315 max bench, 275 for 10.
Around 385 squat
close to 500 deadlift
200 shoulder press
185 curl…
65 lb dumbells curl for 10

that was in my 20s though…