It’s rather hard for me. I know they don’t make sense but I keep on believing them. Does anyone have any tips and tricks to talk yourself out of them?
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It’s easier if you partner up with a therapist or a trustworthy confidant. They can point out gaps in your understanding or flaws in your logic, without coming across as hostile.
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I used to have a therapist but he was terrible. We just conversed rather than talk about these kinds of things.
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tell your pdoc and have your meds adjusted…I have no delusions at all…i"m on generic prolixin.
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Honestly if you can talk yourself out of it, it is not a true a delusion. It is just a paranoid idea. I don’t want to say there are true delusions and not true ones, because the type of experience a person can have can be so varied, but it has to be said that if it is an actual delusion you will probably lack insight into it being a delusion and be convinced maybe with some hesitancy, but still acting on it some way that may or may not make sense. Delusional ideas I guess differ from delusional beliefs, but an idea can become a kind of belief without being truly delusional where there is no insight. So there are as I see it paranoid ideas, paranoid belief with insight, paranoid delusion and paranoid delusional belief. Paranoid ideas occur to me all the time, I may get the occasional paranoid belief with insight that is nonbizarre and convincing and I get fixated on it, paranoid delusion can have some insight but that is getting towards having a paranoid delusional belief when I am off meds and have no insight.
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I tell myself to focus on doing things other than believing delusions. I tell myself I have zero proof but what I am feeling and what is going on with my mind. And this is no proof for anyone.
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I will definitely keep this in mind. Thank you very much! Maybe I really am on the path to serenity.
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That’s what I do but I still get them. I’m better than I was before, but I still am having some issues.
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What I do is talk myself out of acting on a delusion.
If I can keep from acting on something that I believe then finally the delusion won’t be as powerful and eventually fade.
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This is what I need to work on. The delusions are really strong but if I don’t act on them I calm down and then they are not as bad
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We’ll the first step is not engaging them and entertaining them. Did this for years. It never went anywhere. It’s an infinite rabbit hole, I guess.
It’s hard to fathom it’s all just too much dopamine basically in the brain. It felt quantum, spiritual, and impossible to me for many years.
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Just had a delusion after watching a Whoopi Goldberg movie. After watching it people online were talking about Whoopi Goldberg.
These delusions can be very intricate.
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i know im not delusional. the delusion comes to me. i just dont know how to control it. even my sugar levels drop often. i forget and learn.
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I just try to stay open for evidence. Reality still has to prove things.
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