The only common symptom that i dont have to a great extent is paranoia. The most really is with my family, like thinking my wife is talking about me behind my back etc. Been getting better at that. But my major delusions and psychosis are centered around the idea that everything is working out in my favor. When completely lost in my delusions years ago i thought all my friends were in on a secret plan and we were going to save the world. How common are “positive” delusions? I feel really blessed and lucky i guess that i never suffered the intense fear that i see so many here talking about.
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I get both, pronoia when I’m calm and paranoia when stressed.
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Pronoia and paranoia seem to take turns for me. When I was fearing everything, I had to tell myself that everything was just as it should be, and I was living in the best of all possible worlds for my own needs. Kinda solipsistic, but it got me to be somewhat useful for a while.
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Lucky you. I got so scared last night let I jumped up in my bed ready to fight.
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Sometimes i worry that some trauma in life could push me over the otherside. Especially now that i am mostly overcoming the pronoia, that is to say that whilr it is always in my face it doesnt drive me like it used to.
Have experienced pronoia but more of paranoia.
What the hell is pronoia?
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@TomCat Instead of believing that everyone is out to get me i delude sometimes that they are conspiring to help me
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Sometimes I thought public opinion was on my side and that the conspiracies I thought were against me were going to fail. Does that count?
Oh I get that all the time, I kept wondering why I never got paranoia. I tend to assume everyone’s supportive since my mental heck is so awful by comparison. My delusions were delusional but not persecutory. It makes it hard to identify with a surprising amount of posts here.
With me the main problem is almost always just my endurance failing against the onslaught of the hallucinations.
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You want to tell me that the feeling that the universe or reality is taking care of me is another delusion with a name ???
There is no end to this ???
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wikapedia it! i just fownd out to
It was paranoia all the way with me. But now the meds have really faded any paranoia into the background for me I don’t think the universe is conspiring to help me.
I wonder if there’s there a name for the belief that you can only help yourself because I think I have that.
@everhopeful, I believe that’s called “being normal”.
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That’s a new one. I definitely don’t have that.
Good luck with it.
Oh then I was having pronoia mixed with paranoia, but I was dignosed paranoid sz. Is there a differentiated dignosis?
I believe that Gd conspires to help me. Is that pronoia? He assists me through life. He talks to me and advises me every day. Is that pronoia? Or is that just being religious?
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I believe religion promotes pronoia, not that it’s necessarily bad. It’s nice to feel that the universe has a positive bias.
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I’m not really a religious person, but when I was having delusions, I thought all the noises(not hallucinations) in the library was for helping and fixing my behaviors. I always interpreted such manipulations eventually helpful and positive for me, even though I was suffering. And after that, when I started to have a doubt in them, my delusions changed to paranoid. I trusted their intention until the last moment, I totallly depended on the telepathic communications, which deprived my rationality.
I did that thing too, where I believed all the creaks and cracks in the building were secret messages. The correlations don’t happen anymore ever since my brain healed.