I might be way off here but thinking about delusions. if a person knows that they are delusional isn’t that insight? I mean if your delusional you wouldn’t know your delusional that’s why its called a delusion. I have wierd thoughts about things but i dont call that being delusional because i no that its not true. I thought this guy was going to shoot me because he had a lot of weapons, was i being delusional? because i kept telling myself that it wasn’t true, isn’t that insight. I dunno, maybe im way off here. What do you folks think about delusions? And insight.
It can be both. I think a lot of the times we get hung up on semantics instead of the feeling that person has for those thoughts. The whole you can’t have insight if your psychotic is pedestrian at best because if that were true there wouldn’t be anyone to get help.
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I am still having delusions about aliens, but my insight prevents me from acting on them as I now understand that they don’t represent reality.
I have to avoid known triggers to maintain this insight.
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