Any advice? Anyone in the same boat as me?
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I love giving advice, but people are all different, and my struggles might be different to yours. Can you describe what you are struggling with the most? What are you wanting to improve?
Maybe just try to keep your mind focused on something else? IDK.
Iām struggling with realizing my delusion is a delusion. I really donāt think it is.
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Of two minds. Thatās like āHe loves me, he loves me notā¦ā Doesnāt the battle exhaust you? Write it down. Paint a picture about it.
Iām having trouble with my ādelusionsā today, too.
Ah OK. That is a tough one. Iāve found that delusional thoughts have a sort of flavour to them, and it is possible to recognise it, just like you can sense a rush of adrenaline, without being able to see or hear it happening. The biggest giveaway for me is that a delusional thought feels more real than any other kind of thought. Paranoia is similar too. It feels like the truth got beamed into my head without going through any kind of learning or checking process. That is how i recognise them.
Once I have recognised them, I put them into mental quarantine. I imagine a castle in my head, with a locked gate, and I put the thoughts or beliefs in there to keep them separate.
āReality Testingā is a skill that you can learn too, but other people might know more about it than me. I think it is like fact-checking.
Talking about my delusions and my delusions are my own worst enemy. I missed two days of lamictal but idk.
I missed two days of Clozapine, and itās looking like Iām gonna miss tonight, too.
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Can you talk more about recognizing the āflavorā?
I think by definition delusions are something you strongly believe in (realilty based testing) but not true to others or in the real world. That seems to be my case. But doesnāt really fix anything in the short term.
Iām trying to be careful of my so-called blood sugar this evening.
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Hmm. Iām not sure what else to say on that. Itās just something I learned to detect over time.
There is a lot of variety in delusions. They can be mood congruent, or not. Bizarre or non-bizarre. Persecutory, Grandiose, Jealous.
Generally thoughā¦ If youāre not that special, but believe youāre getting special attention, or special powers, then something is not adding up.
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You mentioned recognizing it is that they are no different than regular thoughts, so how do you realize a delusional from a no delusional if you are saying they are the same?
Iām in a different boat, I think. Hallucinations are the most annoying for me. I still hear voices 24/7, even with medication, and suffer from a deep-rooted distrust of people. I still suffer from paranoid thoughts that everyone wants to see me fail. Iām working on several unpublished novels (six of them in total with three of those finished, but not super polished). Maybe dreaming of publication is a delusion? Out of the hundreds of thousands of people who write, not many get published, and I havenāt been doing it for decadesāonly a few years. Iām hoping itās a dream with the potential to come true. But, when I was 17, I had unrealistic dreams of becoming a professional athlete, and I worked hard, but one has to start a sport much earlier, to become successful, so that was a bust. Writing has a longer shelf life than sports, so it could be possible.
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Ah no, not quite the same. I said they feel more real. They feel more like āknowledgeā than āinformationā. Like knowing the truth, instead of being told something. Itās subtle but noticeable.
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Well in my delusion I was being told what would happen through voices.
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@anon28145038 do you relate to my post? Is that why you gave me a heart?
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Sometimes I figure it out in like a couple of seconds. Other times it takes me a while to figure it out. I hope you figure it out.
I think the fact that it came from voices proves itās not real.