Were you able to differentiate between your hallucinations and reality when you were psychotic or after settling down with meds ?
I was able to figure out one important thing after settling down with meds was that many of my unusual encounters which might look like hallucinations were actually encounters with other psychotic people during my psychosis.
It was like we both attracted each other due to the unstable vibe that we shared and between us we spoke exactly the things we wanted to hear.
I needed meds to calm down, which also helped me discern thing clearer in terms of delusional thoughts. As for actual hallucinations - I seem to know deep down it’s wrong but I act on them still
I do as long as I maintain insight which means taking my baseline level of APs. I also know that other psychotic people who share my delusional framework will often seek me out to validate their own and I avoid them or flat out tell them to fxxx off.
When I’m unmedicated, no, I can’t tell the difference. I might know it’s strange or that something isn’t right, but what I’m experiencing seems so real and so important that I feel like I must attend to it. I’m so grateful for APs.
Occam’s razor. If the idea is nuts and I’m nuts then it’s probably nuts and not real. I mean I have SZ and I get weird thoughts and delusions and I have hallucinations that reinforce false beliefs. The odds of the weird thing I think being real actually being real? Big fat nope.