How long did you guys delusions last and do they ever go away?
I think mine was so engrained in me it may never fully go away!!! It takes different forms as time goes on but a consistent theme. I just hope it doesn’t consume my lifestyle much and I could manage it the best I could going forward. I have gotten better at managing it. But it always seems to pop up in moments.
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some are very brief (one day) and some last me all my life so far.
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Some only last weeks some last decades.
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Wow. My delusion is so embedded in me. It just don’t want to go away. This is scary 
I need to learn how to manage.
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I’ll have lesser delusions that can last last for hours to days. Strange passing thoughts
Major delusions like the angels watching me and training me for the afterlife to join them, have lasted decades
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I was deluded for 2/3 a year because I didn’t go on medication for that whole time… I thought the voices would harm me if I told anyone… One of the delusions…
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Does the voices come from imaginary people, people you know, or just voices in your head?
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The voices were people I know of. I don’t really know them but I know of them mainly through friends of friends. The voice didn’t actually tell me I will harm you if you tell someone I said that wrong but I just had this very strong feeling that something bad will happen to me if I tell anyone… That’s wat it was like
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One delusion/conclusion is based on the other. How I suppose to get of this hellhole?
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My delusions are triggered by stress. The more stress the worse my delusions get. So I try to keep stress free.
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As a new-comer to (late onset) SZ, I’m still baffled by the degree of insight you all display, “delusional”, yet medicated and lucid. For a year now a significant part of me has believed that I was sent by God and was tricked into co-creating the universe. I,m all maxed up now on Latuda but that part of me still believes it. That, plus my guilt themes. WHen you say “delusions”, you mean full-blown delusions or the lingering after effects of psychosis once on medication?
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wow this question is perfect one and answers are giving me great solace
just what i needed to hear.
@NotSeksoEmpirico
For me it lingers. It’s like an ordinary thought, not a thought that force me to behave crazy.
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But would that be a true delusion?
For me about 10 years. It affected me loads.
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Hmm not sure. It’s not the same as before the meds, that’s for sure.
There’s no pressure and delirium. No fear.
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For me I only have delusions during a relapse and that last about 1-2 months on medication I have no positive symptoms and that includes delusional beliefs
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I only have delusion off meds but they are permanent
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WHen you say “delusions”, you mean full-blown delusions or the lingering after effects of psychosis once on medication?
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I mean both… how long does it last
Delusions are anything that is not true trying to affect your behavior. Sometimes we can’t see them they are out of the ordinary life we once knew. But we know them as delusions and sometimes believe them. The whole awesomeness of them changes our thinking. We know but they seem true. What is the basis to not believe them. It is a battle to close the door on them, to not open it. We have lost contact with our defense mechanisms against strange thoughts. Its really poof they are stoopind or they are not but the awesome door is open and we can’t see it. Close the door that some shock to our system opened and you have a basis to fight these kind of thoughts.
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