Do you believe in something that even after it being medicated you still think it's real?

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Didn’t believe in spirits before my illness, but still think when they are medicated away.

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Yes, same old delusions

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Yes :shushing_face:

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Yes, and still do. But all my spiritual experiences before the illness were really good ones.

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I’ve a few that can never be proven one way or another, I’m still not sold that they arnt real. But the meds made it easier to handle and move past

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Yeah that’s what I’ve been trying to say. My beliefs don’t go away when I’m medicated, like about the nature of reality and spirits and whatnot. Even on Risperidone they didn’t. I just don’t really fixate on them and obsess over them anymore.

I don’t think you can medicate beliefs away, beliefs are something that change independent of medication. If you could medicate beliefs away then if you gave a Christian or Muslim or Jew an antipsychotic they’d suddenly become atheist.

I do think that since APs take away paranoia, that they can take away paranoid beliefs, because they exist as a way to explain the random feelings of fear, and if they don’t exist anymore, you don’t need that coping mechanism.

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I don’t think it matters if we believe a few unusual things. I think what matters is that we let go of the beliefs that affect our functioning negatively and also get rid of the obsession with our unusual beliefs. Because in the end, it probably doesn’t matter much. Better to be healthy and ignorant than sick but right.

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meds don’t affect beliefs I don’t think. Fixed beliefs will stand as long as there isn’t evidence to prove them wrong. Which is very hard to do.

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No, with a few exceptions I’m not allowed to talk about on the forum. Abandoning so much belief, it feels like schizophrenia is turning me into a existential nihilist.

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I still believe in my “delusions” even though I am highly medicated. The same way that I can’t prove they are real, no one can prove to me that they are not real. So, there it stands.

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I have a strong delusion that hasn’t gone away,

I’m happy because if it did,

I’d be very lonely.

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Yes being psychic and listening to all people’s comments

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I’m going to believe that I’m being watched even after I stop hearing voices completely, but I’ll be able to forget about that from time to time.

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I did, but over time I’m beginning to change my mind. I feel like I’m excepting “reality” more.

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