Have you ever had a long term delusion - say, one you have had for 2 years or more - go away?
If it didn’t go away, did it fade to where you didn’t think of it?
Do you still think of it, but don’t change your behavior because of it, but it still makes you feel bad?
I don’t want to be obsessed with this for the rest of my life but I can’t let it go, you know?
It’s tough. It hasn’t yet, but it doesn’t bother me anymore. Some times it goes but keeps coming back. It’s like my ex girlfriend she keeps calling me back!
Most of my delusions went away now. After medication and logical thinking. The only one I can’t shake is one about artificial intelligence being real.
I have only been MI for 2 years and I have had my delusion that whole time. Meds keep me from acting out like a lunatic so I stay out of the hospital but they don’t make my delusion go away. I wonder the same thing; when will it go away?
I have an obsessive delusion where I believe that I live in a fake, staged world where everyone is acting. They are real people living their lives but they know this is all fake and they know what the truth is. The real world is kept from me. I am the center of this Truman Show and my life, brain and behavior are being studied for some reason. 'They" control my mind and my environment. If someone is mean to me, it is a staged part of my environment. Then they watch my reaction and look at my brain and body activity. They will put very negative or scary thoughts in my brain and then look at my brain and body reaction to the negative thoughts.
Anyway…it is an overwhelming delusion feeling like you are the center of a fake world. It makes zero logical sense. Why would the world spend the enormous amount of time and resources to create an entire world (including, TV, movies, the internet, magazines, books etc) for one person? My brain tells me it is because I am the savior and a savant connected to God. I am some kind of sacrificial lamb. I wish I wasn’t. I am paranoid, anxious and terrified. I wish the people controlling my brain would take away my knowledge of the brain study. Let me live in ignorance and peace. They could make my brain be in a state of unbelievable peace but they won’t do it. They completely control my brain and my environment. They could give me a life of Peace, Passion and Purpose but they don’t. They study me living a stressful, lonely, confused, MI life.
I wish it would go away. It is VERY distracting. I have a world wide audience that watches me constantly.
I’m sorry, I hope it goes away.
Lol 
i have the same stuff. Most. It is some sort of attahment to these delusions too. My best practice is focus on one day only and do daily tasks.
Thank you very much 
Some days are worse than others. Some days I feel like it is finally going away and others I am convinced it will never go away.
We’ll see. I’ll hang in there. I hope yours goes away too.
I too am afflicted with similar delusions. They can be very distressing.
When I first got out of hospital I recovered fairly quickly and my delusions seemed to stay in the background and didn’t bother me too much, but after a few stress-induced psychotic breaks my delusions became more ‘real’ each time.
I guess it also depends on the intensity/duration and frequency of your psychotic break/breaks. Two of my old pdocs told me that every time one has a break, it takes longer to get back to your “baseline”.
There are other variables like therapies, a good medication/psychiatrist, social supports, lifestyle changes, etc, which help speed up recovery.
I am hopeful that even if they don’t ‘go away’, that they will just linger around in the background like they did before, and if they do go away, even better.
Lots of love <3
That would be a great option ‘B’. My biggest thing is that I want the associated paranoia to go away. I am convinced that, as part of this Truman Show ‘script’, they are going to mentally and physically torture me. I want that to go away more than anything. The delusion itself can just hang in the background but the paranoia I need GONE! It is so very painful.
I feel you.
Why can’t it be something harmless, like faeries living in my roses?
Then I would just be eccentric and charming.
Right? Parts of my delusion are very positive like believing that in the ‘real’ world we have peace for the first time in history. That people give like never before and hunger has been all but banished. That’s all good and nice but then comes the fear of being sacrificed. No thanks! Scares the shyt out of me. I’d rather just stay in ‘this’ world and be free of that paranoia.
I don’t think schizophrenia completely goes away in the same way that the pain never completely goes away when you lose someone you love. You can change this or change that, but schizophrenia never completely goes away. And that’s good. It’s good because you won’t forget. And you don’t want to forget.