These are the outstanding issues I still have to fix. I’m no longer obsessed about them but only if I restore my faith in the reality of people will I be able to move forward. Thanks for the input.
I think it is important to realize both of these issues are not settled by evidence, and that most people do not need them to be. I cant recall the last time I felt human but am as confident of it as anything.
Not settled by evidence! For years I was OK with this, but no longer.
In this form I am a human, I do question these things though. I have no clue what happens when I die. I’m ok with my ignorance though. I can just live my life to the best of my ability and knowledge.
I have in the past felt that the world was not real and the people were not real. They were scary times. I’m so thankful I found a medication combination that works for me and I don’t have to go through that anymore.
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I suspected you were, but sometimes that is an illsuited demand, im sure you are familiar with notions of existential a priori
I feel very human since… I am.
But when I was psychotic I felt everything was weird, except me, although at one point I felt like the voice was even controlling my thoughts. Very very very very very scary.
Humans are prone to diseases. I am a human.
My atheistic healthy self would rule out an afterlife as an integral part of our humanity, but I haven’t died yet either.
I’m a little reluctant to use meds to treat an existential crisis.
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Yes, but these have been corrupted beyond hope by my ipseity disturbance and the spurious meta cognition it brings.
When unmedicated, people seem driven by AI. There are a lot of weird giveaways too. It’s creepy as heck.
Once your brain is not on overdrive anymore, people seem real again.
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I wonder what would my voices say if I had them.
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People fall ill but I wouldn’t call disease a human characteristic.
You can be real and unreal at the same time pretty much. Nothing hard to understand about that. It’s not contradictory. You can be in a fake universe and be fake. You can be in a fake universe and be real enough. You can be in a real universe and be real. You can be in a real universe and be fake ie robot.
Do you tend to take the delusions with you into sanity.
Because I became completely convinced of a lot of delusional things but when I return to stability. I mean it makes sense the feeling , and the belief, but there’s no way I can believe it anymore past a certain level of stability. It just stops being rational at times.
Sometimes I enjoy this crazy existential thinking.
You think it’s a symptom of sz 100% or an unfolding of the truth that we can see easier when psychotic.
I deal with it all too and it doesn’t bother me much anymore. Not since I’ve been on 15 mg abilify every day but I still have these thoughts deeper and deeper at times
In a state of rock solid recovery, the delusions are like a bad dream. I’m on a treatment regimen and every day that elapses is like a bad memory, with the next day bringing me ever more closer to the proper reality.
I tend to believe in Westworld, Inception, and the Matrix type ideas and beliefs. Like Maybe I’m Neo from Matrix; Maybe I’m William, Serac, or Ford from Westworld, etc. I mean I don’t think life is real per se but it’s not healthy to believe other wise. I feel and know I was outside the matrix (brain in a vat) but I’m schizophrenic and the experiment failed and caused me to deny it, go crazy, and not understand it anymore. I rather be real and not deal with ■■■■ like aliens and robots anymore.
Being real and unreal at the same time using the same frame of reference is contradictory, but I think I know what you mean. Obviously I’m not denying “reality”, only our commonsense view of the shared world.
I like to think of the reality as perfect already and you’re just adjusting to the scenery. I feel like I can explain it through action better than words now. Or maybe a combination of words and action. Well I feel that’s a goal of my favorite philosophies.