Delusions of reference (If I do X then someone gets hurt type of thing)

I have pretty disabling delusions of reference. They’ve got a bit better recently so I can see some of the wood from the trees.

Basically I get these ideas that if I do something (like just having a shower) then someone is going to get hurt.

Anybody else suffer with this? If so how have you dealt with it?

Like I said it’s eased up recently.

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I get this all day bro

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please talk to your pdoc about it…you don’t sound very stable.

Lol. You should trademark that line !

Sounds more like magical thinking.

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My psychiatrist actually called it delusions of reference. But certainly magical thinking seems to fit too. Magical thinking seems a better description actually. Thanks.

Woa. That article says

Magical thinking is defined as believing that one event happens as a result of another without a plausible link of causation. For example: “I got up on the left side of the bed today; therefore it will rain.”

That’s it exactly.

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