How do I know I have the mental illness?
Don’t you remember life before the Truman show? You’re not there anymore. You’re unwell.
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Maybe because you have these:
Delusion refers to a strongly held belief despite evidence that the belief is false.
Delusion usually occurs as a result of a neurological problem or a mental illness. However, delusion is not associated with any one disease in particular and has been found to manifest as a feature of various different physical and mental illnesses. Delusion is a typical clinical feature in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and paraphrenia.
According to the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), delusion is defined as: “A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes the inconvertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary.”
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Because, you are delusional…?
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Because what you’re experiencing is not unique.
And also, you came here, to a site for schizophrenics,
What are we supposed to think?
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But she could be like me. Recognizing that it’s my diagnosis while not believing it’s necessarily true. That’s how I got to this site. I think men really are following me. She thinks there really is a camera.
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If the psychiatrists say so and if they got good reason to say so.
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Like how did it start out for you guys?
if you are in doubt that you are delusional it will probably have to get full blown before you believe it later after recovering…that’s what had to happen to me…
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I started to hear voices. My very first voices appeared when I wore headphones and heard a voice saying “I’m here”. By the way, this happened in the 2004, and I even didn’t know about Sz back then.
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I have been dealing with this for over 3 years. I really dont know if it’s a delusion because everyone is laughing and talking about me. I’m so tired of this. I’ve been feeling a little more suicidal lately. I feel I have no one. I believe my family put the hidden camera in me. It’s hard to believe I am delusional. I really think I’m in some kind of cruel joke that the whole entire country is playing on me. I want to believe this is a delusion.
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Self story telling because the truth, not the delusion, is hurting you in a way that you haven’t accepted yet. The delusion is painful, but less painful than the truth. I suspect pride here.
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So what is the truth in my case?
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You have disguised it into your camera delusion. I could only guess what your truth is. Possibly a family incident from your childhood. A harsh comment, maybe.
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My truth is, the tv is talking about me and everyone i know or encounter talks about me as well.
Is it about good or bad things? I had voices and delusions telling me to do bad stuff like kicking a mirror, killing, raping, killing myself bcz I am God and won’t die, etc Luckily they went away with meds but I still hear voices sometimes and have some paranoia etc but they’re not violent anymore. I would hear my mother calling and talking to me but she wasn’t there, ppl laughing at me, ppl wishing me bad luck and bad things, etc
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It’s all bad things. I dont know if they are voices. They are coming from real people, real voices.
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Are they calling you a loser?
Things similar to that.
I got that way because I was the family scapegoat.
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