To a SZ, the rational mind clicks off during positive/negative symptoms. In a calm lucid state for example, I can tell myself that the person dying in the ER on tv PROBABLY isnt me, and I’ll try to repeat it like a mantra or just turn it off. But during a psychotic episode, I am POSITIVE that what I’m seeing or hearing is actually about ME, and that it’s all clues to what’s REALLY happening and the real world around me is the hallucination. There is little to no rational mind when psychosis hits, just the sad fact of the matter here.
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I’ve lost all of my friends too… I only ever talk to hubs, the kids, or my parents. Hubs is a social butterfly unfortunately. So when I’m not awkwardly accompanying him to gatherings, I feel like I’m holding him back by being a loner/shut-in… 
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