Do not discuss delusions. Eventually you can see this as your control over your environment and symptoms.
Mental care doesn’t help with these or provide any coping skills…(Gang stalking/cause stalking/thought broadcasting as exception…) ‘Rational’ worries/reactions are normal but sometimes labeled delusions by the mental care who are trained not to discuss this, unfortunately causing confusion to become insanity. Insane delusions are planning to harm someone, anything with a child, self harm, thinking you are Marvin the Martian, Napolean, cartoon character, arming yourself for anything except official legal hunting…You know right from wrong. If you do something illegal, the poor people ALWAYS go to prison. Insanity is no longer a defense for anything so they lock you up and throw away the key. Pagan delusions - you have a ghost friend, you have x-ray vision, you are possessed by aliens/demons, ghosts, aliens, psychics, tarot, crystals…anything from the movies - is hardest to believe in as a psychotic…It increases symptoms and suffering…Latter stuff is sort of harmless but still pedaled by scam artists + crooks so use caution…
Remember, if you get angry with the mental care staff, they can lock you up in the mental hospital for forced care at your own expense for as long as justified so just be okay & mellow.
Exercise quiet avoidance of the weird people (including people talking crazy to strangers) as these peoples’ problems affect all friends with constant money problems/employment problems/babysitting demands/borrow stuff/couch crash/legal problems…
You do need to watch your drink on dates and in the company of strangers. Time bathroom stops with end of drink. Order a fresh drink when you get back from the ladies room. Date rape drugging does happen.
It is best not to visit the bars alone as you are more desirable target for trouble. The designated driver will know if you are in trouble with some guy …
It is unwise to travel with strangers who are acting the littlest bit weird. I’ve heard some terrible stories. The real abusers LOVE to take victims to another police jurisdiction, harm someone and strand them. The ones bragging about illegal stuff, trying too hard to get friends, too wealthy to work, telling impossible stories because too much of the bad part is left out, or seem to be surrounded by a lot of fake friends who just suck up will ruin another person…Avoid these friends. Just quit returning phone calls,text or emails. You will probably get stalked…You sometimes need to move after meeting these.
If someone is smiling like up to no good, I change routes when walking. Later I see the guy breaking into cars.
I don’t travel with men unless romantically ‘involved’ because I know some women get left behind by the jerks after an argument. Never start an intimate relationship on a trip unless you have your own way home…
Just keep basic possessions…Trying to keep up with the Jones or look flashy will break you financially if you think your place is being trespassed. Never spend all your money so you can keep an emergency fund. So, keep your RX glasses on you…These are favorite thing to disappear. This is worst part of whole thing…No locks will keep out anyone who wants in…no security system, no camera system…Intermittent glitches of electronics are another favorite and very costly torment…Some of the wrong people will cause everything in your place to break 5+ times to cause you financial problems to gain submission to whatever demands…Most of the women who had a trespassing or unwanted male attention (sometimes work sexual harassment), shacked up or married current good one they were seeing. You have less social harassment, less work sexual harassment & a little less trespassing.
Some people are creepy. Men are sometimes socially encouraged to act like this. Avoid them. At work, these can be devastating to someone with schizo as the gang stalking can result in firing without unemployment insurance, sometimes you cannot get your disability check back if you are fired. Plan your employment attempts with forethought but case management might not be that helpful or even interested either. Do not date coworkers. Do not discuss your diagnosis. Carry a tape recorder if you are being harassed by coworkers and it won’t happen as much. Do not try to be pals with coworkers until someone shows interest but be selective, any employee with bad performance or no need to work due to wealthy parents can be a big curse to friends. You need to know the work rules on SSDI or SSI so you will be prepared…If you earn over $700 a month on SSDI, you will eventually have to pay $700 for health insurance so better to not go over this limit until you really want to return to work. SSI is totally different…
Some social situations are not worth the effort as sometimes it is just men hunting down women with no regard to what he will have to destroy to get this one…If you try a social group with the normals & anyone is weird or gives you unwanted attention, you should not go back. This can be so bad, you should not even put down your last name or an identifying email or you would be tracked down. (You need an email you cannot find on a google which does not contain your name and you did not use it as a username on any public comment forums…You can always set up another free email.) These situations are usually filled with a lot of ruined people who are stuck serving this group leader so they can be okay…some lost their jobs over it and new women they meet will definitely get this treatment if you are desirable. Even some well employed women are even ruined for possibilities…Women only groups and most mental care consumer groups are okay. It is the wealthy men who are trouble, even at church sometimes.
Some of the male college professors are bullies. You will get screwed into having to immediately pay back student loans or pell grant if you try to drop a class with a bully professor. The colleges in some cities keep a lot of people who will act like this plus disruptive student body who will mess up group assignments. If you have the psychosis symptoms, it is almost better to just take the classes online any longer for your degree. You also need to pay cash for 2-3 classes to make sure the place will treat you okay. You can file some psychiatrist paperwork for assistance through the Disability Supports department at the college if your current mental care provider will cooperate. You will have better ability to use college management for help if a professor is mistreating you or sexual harassing you. You can also get more time on assignments, clarification on assignments if professor stops following syllabus, take tests/homework completion in other location if classmates are allowed to be verbal harassers during classes and option for alternative assignments when you are placed with mentally unstable students for group assignments. Sometimes your new mental care doctor may not cooperate if you move to go to college so you need to get your old psych doctor to fill out this paperwork which the school Disability Supports department should email to you or you can get it from their web site. After being mistreated at two schools and terribly disappointed by quality of classes (out of date materials, DVD only teaching and instructor who Googles her subject, disrespect, useless degrees), I find it is best to self study or purchase use of online training libraries if you want any continuing education past your first degree…There is just too much personality and BS to even go into debt for the colleges sometimes.
Some people will follow orders from the voices to target a specific person to date. These kind almost always try to tell you something private they shouldn’t know or parrot your internal train of thought not related to current activities or environment. These kind will harm someone if voices demand it. These kind are almost always the reason the women were in the domestic violence shelter beaten up. The women are serial cheaters, financial abusers or witches…The dating sites were good if you say hello first & just make sure you initiated contact, otherwise every weirdo will look you up if you are listed. It is best to avoid any Facebook friends you do not know either. A lot of women returned to the men they already knew were okay using Facebook, maybe, for dating to be safe…
If you cut contact with anyone who makes your psychosis symptoms worse, who may have been bragging about illegal stuff or trying to get you upset prior to onset of your symptoms, you will have fewer problems over time. You can just stop talking to whole group of them and anyone you met there and keep quiet. Do not follow orders from voices or talk to self aloud, symptoms and social problems will get better over time. These kind will usually stalk someone so if you have too many problems, you may want to move. If you report too much stuff to police about stalking/trespass, the cops can throw you in mental hospital and forcibly treat you at your own expense so only report it if you have an eye witness, you get pictures or you need to file insurance because house was trashed or everything stolen. Restraining orders are usually impossible to obtain and not even enforced by police anyway.
Some cities have A LOT of gang stalkers. I was surrounded by a different group of people 3 times and harassed about being ‘on the check’…I stand my ground, keep moving and show reaction and it was okay. I never discussed my disability check ever. Some poor neighborhoods work this way. These poorer kids are not so bad as they have more to lose, the middle class ones supported by their parents have no problem verbally harassing coworkers/customers or ruining work for customers until they get fired over and over. The middle class ones are bigger problem as the parents are enablers… I have been harassed numerous times by strangers saying they are ‘preaching’, I need to get a job, they like to work…if you reach this situation and you comply, you will be ruined as this is passive aggressive. You need to plan a work re-entry carefully as even accepting a full-time Walmart job will ruin some…These are miserable situations. I do not shop much any longer as a lot of the service or retail workers will bug specific customers (used to be called a spastic) and I get bugged or worse. Crooked auto mechanic is usually a part-time psychotic and will ruin vehicles…having the mechanic talking nuts with my car and wallet at his disposal frightens me badly. Some victims on this website had cars quit timed with the voices so choose your mechanic carefully or have family do the work.
(I am working on getting a work at home business started BTW…I’ve had some of the local wealthy businessmen ‘POS’ say hello threateningly and they are a ‘deal with the devil’ as they will screw anyone the voices demand. Many of the successful got wealthy by knowing when to buy out a distressed business owner/victim or exactly how to screw someone over to get a good business op. I avoid these. Plus working around the verbal harassers in a sales job scares me bad. I’m working on getting into another field as I need to see a job as part-time or if I get screwed into a firing AGAIN, I will not get unemployment or get my disability check back. I’ve only been fired when something was wrong with my employer’s people…There is so much to know about working…)
Thought insertion - Your internal mental voice can be hijacked. You will hear a word or phrase repeated which is not related to your current train of thoughts, activity or surrounding. This is fake. This can happen with people around you. They are not aware of this most of the time. It is most likely with elderly or children. These will sound like they are possessed but it is only a bad joke. It is best to ignore this as person has no clue and no way to stop it. This is considered a delusion but kids are harmed over this a lot in south america where the catholics keep them all pagans.
Sorry such a long one…
Not much response to harassment (called grace at okay churches) and appearing undesirable to bother help. Coping is the rest of this. Eventually, you can even work hearing the voices a lot and just let it run like background noise. Yoga is huge help, eat right, exercise to keep away depression and keep weight low. If new to this, you need to work on reading magazine articles, video games and artistic stuff to learn to concentrate again and go from there. Insomnia will put on the weight…Consider trazadone if you have continued problems with it, ambien occasionally if needed.
Regarding hypochondria, tactile hallucinations can be really unpleasant and anything from crawling bugs, heart palpitations, punches in stomach, burning feeling anywhere, flash headaches & rotating stabbing paints. If you just get the basic preventative medicine, try to move it and keep weight down, live a no drama life with good friends only, you may feel better if you ignore a lot of unpleasant physical sensations and just try to take a over the counter pill and keep moving. See how you feel in a little while unless you think it could be stroke, heart attack…learn the signs of serious situations where you should go to ER. This is especially true as you get older or have family history of these, serious health problems are more likely. I am not a doctor…