I’m having issues telling if things are real lately. And I want to hear how you guys reality check.
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I write things down and then read them as if someone else is telling them to me. Like I’m giving them advice.
For an example, one day I felt like someone was stealing my thoughts, so I spent a good five minutes thinking of spiders in clown costumes to scare them away.
I wrote it down, and when I read it, I realised how silly it was.
The sensory thing also works for me sometimes.
You know, 4 things I can see, 3 things I can hear, 2 things I can feel. That exercise.
I do hope you feel better soon hugs
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Honestly, the only thing that keeps me fairly grounded is the medication. Without it, i would often descend into a state where i believed everything i was doing or seeing wasn’t real. It was all put on or orchestrated as an experiment, and i was the unfortunate subject. I can see that now, but at the time i couldn’t.
That’s depends how far into psychosis I am.
Odd thoughts when I’m semi baseline I can usually just talk to someone I care about, double check that they don’t really hate me, and that it’s just in my head
Farther down the rabbit hole I stop trusting people, and at that point only medication helps until it passes
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Medications are a big factor.
Some other things I do are write a list supporting my experiences/thoughts and write a list disproving them. I usually find the list disproving my thoughts/experiences is longer than the one supporting it.
I’ll test my thinking with a trusted person.
I also do a lot of grounding. The sense of touch does wonders for me, so I’ll feel the fabric of my clothes or kinda tap my fingers together.
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The only thing that works for me is medications. When I try to “reality test” with other (sane) people, I don’t believe them.
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Going for a walk as far you can go. Reality will hit.
You get hungry, tired. Make sure you won’t get lost. Maybe take someone with you. Gives me an idea to walk with others as a peer.
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My mind often shifts to an alternate reality. I lose all sense of reality. But, I was never that good with reality anyway. Today I’m just focusing on trying to understand whats going on on tv and stuff. Nothing was making sense earlier. People still baffle me and I’m still paranoid. I’m basically a miserable idiot in many ways much of the time.
I try to rationalize.
i try and weigh things up like asking myself ‘what are the chances of it being this or that?’ keeps me grounded but i need my meds mostly
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