Delusions: do you have insight?

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i usually have, if not in complete psychosis.
I am aware that they are irrational but i believe them with all my heart.

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I can lose insight very quickly.

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I think I knew something was off but I couldn’t really pinpoint what it was.

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I’m similar. About half the time, I have some insight.

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Me too.
I can lose insight in a flash!
It’s pretty scary when you think about it.

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I used to think cats were our secret overlords, able to read and control the minds of us humans. Like they were superintelligent and if their goals were at odds with the goals of our species, they were pretty much guaranteed to override our best interest, which would result in human suffering. The clozapine and therapy pretty cured me of that delusion…

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I have insight yet believe them at the same time. Is hard to describe. Very traumatic

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As long as I’m able to apply reality testing, even so, it’s a 50/50 type of thing.

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even on meds my delusions haunt me but i don’t get the emotional hurricane that comes with them off meds.

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I think once you have thought enough and believed in delusions enough your whole thought process is changed.

The key is to catch yourself before you dive in. No matter how twisted your feelings and perception is.

Don’t fall victim to them. Find something that snaps you out of it. Or talk yourself through it as if you were tour own therapist

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I’m like @Om_Sadasiva.

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For me it depends how long I’ve gone with delusional thoughts, at first it starts with “Oh that’s not right” and brushing it off, but gradually I began to start believing them.
Also if I’m in a panicked state, I’ll be without insight temporarily, after the fact I can kinda brush it off but nonetheless the thoughts will worry me of the “what if” factor.

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If you get lucky, and figure out the entirety of reality, you are not so lucky.

Such insight places you far away from everyone else, too far for everyone else to comprehend.

You want so much to share this with others, but the entirety of reality is singular. Thus it can not be shared.

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I guess I have insight because I know other people don’t believe the same way I do or see/hear what I do, but I believe it’s all real and can’t/won’t let it go. My son and I had a conversation about this yesterday. I teased him that my “hallucinations and delusions” are true things, but that his (he has sz too) are so obviously not real. I tease, but it’s how I think…
I have always had what might be called insight because I’ve always kept things secret. I felt ashamed about the demons and knew people wouldn’t believe me about angels, etc…

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I agree 110%. If you can talk yourself through it like your own therapist it can really help out. It actually helped me on my last breakdown. Well not really, but kind of. It helped me stop arguing with my dad (who’s passed away more than 10 years ago) cause I told myself in my head “Your talking to yourself, You have to stop that, nobody’s here” and it helped me stop. Yet I was still in the middle of my breakdown though. My whole thought process can change in a snap of a finger to really dark things that can scare a person. Scares me. I’m not saying this will work, but at least try it to see if it works, it can never hurt

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Yeah mine changes in a matter of seconds at times. Sometimes it’s like something comes over me or twists my brain. Seems like the better I get the tougher the things I face

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I have some subtle delusions that I am so used to having, that I will obsess about them for some time before I gain insight. On a good day it is only minutes, on a bad day, hours. I get there in the end though.

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Yeah I am well now but when I was ill, not at all…

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I have delusions of reference. I have the insight that most people, and my pdoc and nurses, don’t agree with me that it is possible that spiritual enitities speak to me through books. But, in spite of my insight, I still believe that spiritual entities talk to me, and on a very personal basis, through the medium of the printed word, every day. I believe this with all of my heart.

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I have “insight” in that I know I believe things that most people would consider delusional… like, I realise that they’re considered irrational… but that doesn’t stop them from existing for me @_@ it’s a strange doublethink phenomenon where something is “real” and “not real” at the same time.

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