I'm a mixed bag of delusions - How about you? - List some if you feel up to it

I have had a wide range of delusions the 3 times or so I have been psychotic.

  1. Religious delusions
  2. Persecutory delusions
  3. Delusions of being watched through electronics
  4. Delusions of reference
  5. Delusions related to mind reading
  6. Delusions where I thought train whistles and horn honks and such were responding to my thoughts.
  7. Simulation delusions
  8. Delusions that I was being poisoned through things I consumed (Food, Drink, MEds)
  9. Delusions that the Heating and air conditioning were pumping poison into the air
  10. Delusions about secret societies and criminal organizations.

I could probably go on if I sat here and thought long enough, but I guess thats enough for now.

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  1. Delusions that people could be controlled and memories erased.
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  1. erotomania delusion…carried her with me in my delusions the whole year.
  2. religious delusions…thought I was Jesus’ right hand man.
  3. persecutory delusions …thought the devil was after me.
  4. international televised watching me.
  5. thought food was humans.
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Yeah, I had that one as well at one point.

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  1. Thought every first drink in grocery stores was poisoned. I would always grab one at the very back.
  2. Every car that passed by me was going to roll down their window and start shooting me
  3. Thought that I had died years ago in my ATV accident and was currently in the after life
  4. There was this p0rnstar named ā€œIsis Taylorā€ I stopped searching her name up because I thought that the government would accuse me of trying to join Isis (the terroist group)
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I did that , ā€œgrab from the backā€ strategy as well. When at my worst, I thought people were anticipating the food I would buy and poisoning it as well, so I developed this method of getting a random number and counting down the food aisle to a random food and purchasing it. lol.

At one point I thought I was in a simulation and was killed when I went to sleep and ā€˜respawned’ with no memory of it, which made it hard to sleep.

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Same.

I don’t like to share/talk about them though :grimacing:

So, I’ll leave it at that lol

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Too many to remember. Nothing to be ashamed of, just grateful I’ve got my insight back.

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Did a therapist actually ask why you had those delusions. Best way to get rid of them is to figure out why you have them and work on your actual problems

I have never been to a therapist. I know from people that have therapists that they are a mixed bag at best anyway.

The best way for me to get rid of them is to stay medicated. I have zero delusions when I am medicated properly.

I know why I had them. It’s because I have schizophrenia and make false connections when I’m not medicated. The best way to get rid of them for me is medications. There is no ā€˜root cause’, that a therapist is going to find as to why I thought food was poisoned or why I believed people were after me. Its all making false connections in my head.

If you want to believe that sure. But I have seen people and met a lot dat actually solved their delusions and even voices.

Hi, my delusions are always about being telepathically bullied which is exhausting. It’s probably better on medication and also when I ignore it but it’s hard to do…

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Hi. Thinking people can read your mind is one of the more disturbing of the delusions I have had in the past. Its very disconcerting thinking you have no privacy, not even in your head, so I get that.

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Thought insertion
Thought withdrawal
Grandeur
Persecution
Cameras
Trumanomatrix
Control
Loss of agency
Etc

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-persecatory delusions about the gov, aliens, and demons
-grandiose religious delusions
-nihilistic delusions, cotards delusion and capgras
-delusions of reference from tv, books, radio, music, even graffiti and bilboards
-thought insertion and control tol
All i can think of rn

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Ive had the gamut. I currently have ideas of reference and some thought broadcasting. I’ve never really been able to fully shake those.

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I’ve recently been dealing with thought broadcasting, it’s been rough.

My other main delusion is religious in nature. It has evolved through the years. It’s still there in the back of my mind or when moral things come up.

I can’t think of anymore right now.

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My feelings are f’ed with all the time telepathicly by the conscious of others

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I have a voice in my head that says it’s God and a female who says one day we’ll be together. She said that there’s a switch somewhere in my house that opens a secret door in my basement to an underground train that will take me to her. For days I was looking for secret levers like a man possessed by controlling voices. I started googling people living in mansions underground and there was an underground train. This went on for days. It was like command hallucinations where I was just watching my body go through the motions trying to figure out this riddle. Eventually things fizzled out and my voice said we’ll meet another way. I don’t even care about crap like this, but when these voices go on for days I can’t get a thought of my own in its like they’re thinking for me. I get lost in my mind. Eventually a new delusion comes along. I thought there were tunnels under my house and my neighbor was using these tunnels to go into my house and eat my sushi when I’m running errands. At least I never feel alone thanks to the voices. Gotta see the positive.

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When im in psychosis and/or mania, I have constantly shifting and changing delusions. I think i would have had pretty much every type there is at some point or another. I also felt super euphoric when manic like I had taken a huge dose of mdma or something (which I hadn’t) and could go days without any sleep. I guess thats kinda a hallmark manic thing though anyway. I also had voices occasionally but not very often. And also visual hallucinations occasionally.

But these days I rarely have psychotic episodes. Which is a relief since some of mine have lasted many months at a time. The first time I went crazy I stayed in the adult psych ward for many months straight without leaving at all. I was around 16 or 17 years old that time. Nightmare period of my life.

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