When I’m around other humans, I can’t stop reading their minds. I try to, but I keep getting these signals from them and they tell me how they’re really feeling, dispite what they’re saying. They don’t even know they’re doing it, so then I feel bad for knowing this information about them, without their knowledge.
People keep reading mine, too. They know everything, so I try to stop thinking, and its really difficult. I think they know that I know they’re tapping in, and it’s scaring me, because I can’t break the connection.
I just want to stay in my room away from everyone.
Moved to Unusual Beliefs.
Telepathy is not real, doens’t exist. You need help for these issues, it isn’t going to go away on its own I think.
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If its not real, then how come I get these thoughts from other people?
You don’t. It’s your mind playing tricks on you. It’s called thought broadcasting. It’s very common.
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I had it too. I first had it when I was 14, then it passed, then came back stronger after I was 20, with voices. So please get yourself checked out, diagnosed and on meds.
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It’s confusing partly because you may very well be a deeply intuitive person. You may be in touch with other’s feelings and assume they are also in touch with yours. But, what I’m discovering schizophrenia does is it takes a good thing and twists it out of proportion. Your intuition and empathy for others is real and a good thing, but sz has twisted it into a delusion that you are actually hearing their thoughts. If you are not already involved in therapy, I would recommend so you can sort through these kinds of things. Lies are always based on truth. The more based on truth they are, the more believable they are. It may be true that you are very sensitive, but the lie part is that you can literally hear other’s thoughts and they yours.
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nah, most of the time our psychotic experiences are just completely off… no need to sugercoat schizophrenia imo.
@bunny please listen to @minnii, and see a doctor/therapist. Those can be really helpful in making it disappear.
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I’m not disagreeing. Go get help, @Bunny. But I do think that denying every part of something that feels so real makes the suffering worse, and makes us question very real parts of ourselves. By all means, if you just want something to completely disappear and are able to do that, then go for it. But, if your individual mind continues to think something and it’s causing distress, or is clearly wrong, then finding the bits of reality and truth that are so often at the basis of these delusions can be helpful. It has helped me.
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Having a hard time with getting a doctor, here in my town. Also uncertain if I need one. It’s a bit difficult for me to explain. Thanks for your input everyone. I’m having a very difficult time, right now.
Ask your GP for a referal.
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I did…
I had a pdoc and therapist when I was hospitalized. They couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. They medicated me to the point where I couldn’t walk, or move my hands or head properly. If I got to talking a out strange things or about the people in my head I was moved to the back where I had to sit in an empty room for days with nothing to do. No distractions, only making things worse. So I caught on and started lying and pretending everything wasnt happening till they discharged me, with a diagnosis of depression and anxiety.
After my hospitalization, they referred to a doc in a town 45min away. My mom reluctantly drove me, and the doctor scared me shitless and told me all of my problems were just due to lack of sleep and sleep will make them go away. Even though I was in a period of oversleeping, at the time. My mom said she would not drive me that far anymore.
I then was referred to a doc and we did telecommunication. That was the scariest experience, having to sit in front of a screen, with a big camera in my face, speaking to a doc I’m uncertain was even real. I couldn’t tell him anything, and when I did tell him a few things he would confuse me, ask me weird questions and tell me I need to get out more and socialize to fix my problems.
He also never told me what was wrong. No diagnosis, no answers, nothing resolved.
My therapist was the same. She said everything was merely anxiety and it could all be fixed with ‘positive self talk’.
I have since give up on the system. I don’t mean to post things on here that may trigger sufferers, however I strongly believe now that I’m really not even ill, since three psychiatrists, two therapists and two physicians all seem to say I’m just an overly anxious person, and medications only heightens things to a more unbearable level.
I believe I just have cognitive abilities, that allow me to access things others cannot, and in many ways I’m jusy hindered where others excel.
I do agree I may have anxiety, due to the fact that I am afraid of everything, 24/7 and dont remember what its like not to be.
I also agree with my depression diagnosis, seeing as most days I am just a lump in my bed, staring at nothing, lost in my head. These are my only two doagnosises I’ve ever had, besides bipolar disorder, which I was given while hospitalized. They retracted that diagnosis quite quickly, however.
That is all.
Sorry for the long read, I just really feel I need to explain myself.
I’m not trying to be anti-medication, or anti-treatment. I just really don’t see a need for me to go back into the system of being tossed around by doctors and drugged up to the point where I can’t even walk, all for them to fix nothing and find nothing.
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Damn, you’ve told me this before, sorry I forgot the details. I know it’s maybe stupid for me to keep pushing you to see doctors, but I worry for you, living your life like that, you’re so young, you deserve to be happy and healthy.
Now worries, you can’t be expected to remember every user’s stories and struggles.
And thanks for caring. I’m glad I have this place to ventilate and discuss my issues with people who have similar struggles. Although I feel like I shouldn’t be here at all, having no diagnosis and not being a pro-med or pro-doc type of person. I always feel like the mods and admin hate me for this reason.
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Nobody hates you here, but we worry about you. That’s all.
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Thanks for the reasurrance. I just feel like I don’t belong here, I guess.
You belong just fine. But expect people telling you to see doctors, since this a recovery oriented website 
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Yes, that’s to be expected.
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I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough time of things with doctors. I don’t blame you for being hesitant in seeing another doctor now.
I really hope things improve for you. You deserve to be happy and free of these feelings. Being able to read other people’s thoughts would be really cumbersome and interfere with your ability to enjoy any moment.
Sending you hugs 
Thank you @anon84763962.
I appreciate your hugs and concern. I would like to find a doctor who can actually help, but around my town there aren’t many.
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