Perhaps if irrationality was eliminated, I might be free from this illness. I’m am giving it a shot.
I don’t think that is the case… sound, but not the case.
Thank you for weighing in, however I still think it’s a valid point. My psychosis completely stems from irrationality.
No matter how irrational my symptoms seem to be, they are playing with my reality. We’re not talking about dealing with someone friendly either…first drink in hand. sorry guys…
Hah, I can’t stand getting drunk. Every few days or so I think I feel up to it and then I have a beer or three and I’m just like ugh. Alcoholism makes no sense to me.
I’ve had problems with substance abuse, self abuse, manic depression, all sorts of stuff. Back in 2004 when I first got out of the army I went to live with my father in las vegas. I brought home a fifth of glenfiddich scotch, 12 year old…went out to the back yard by the pool and proceeded to start my mission of poundin it. My father refused, my father refused to allow me to finish that off and he handed it too me. Crying I told him nothing mattered anymore, like it was all gone. And I’m truly a demon with a whiskey bottle in my hand. I feel unaligned, misplaced, unbelievable, I’m trying to keep caring. I took an oath to myself to, I just feel sort of lost though…
only gotten drunk once and i cannot remember it.
I took this oath and got it tattooed on my ribcage with a stone lion holding it,
(understand that now is our time and time cannot always be spared, this life is hard and unforgiving but we still care)
I feel really warped. I once hallucinated that the oath was stolen and that I had lost the power and meaning of it…
irrational illness.
It sounds like a good oath. It is important to care.
Yes, and when it’s stolen where does you true inner strength and commit go to…( a bunch of theivin prick bastards)…neveragain.
For some people yes and for others no. I have a very rational mindset.
But I also believe in the power of habit so if I have developed a bad habit maybe such as over sleeping, I should be able to break that habit to restore normal sleep patterns
most of the time I think as logically as possible. but delusions typically are the culprit for irrationality. im not sure you can actually prevent this.
I think a good rational work around for people that think the Cia is tracking you or spying , is . Are you really that important that they need to spy on you who is 1 out of 7 billion other people? Unless you’ve designed some technologicaly advanced machine that can change the world this is extremely unlikely
Schizophrenia is a very real brain disorder that makes people think irrationally sometimes - but you know what at my worst my delusions were not so out of the ordinary, I mean there are a lot of psychics or spiritual healers that believe in the things that I was into - I mean I thought I could communicate with the dead, I read tarot, thought I could see spirits and ghosts - read peoples future - I thought that I could read peoples minds -felt like I could move things around with the power of my mind … Hmm … well I guess that kind of behavior is a little bit out there - it was irrational 
haha you know whats funny about sz, we can pretty much do anything psychics or spiritual healers can in our mind since our mind creates it ,
I remember before I was diagnosed, I went to a church camp as a camp councelor to clear my head from drug use. Well this was a charismatic camp, and they believed in using visions with the minds eye to fore tell things, Man I had the wildest most detailed ‘visions from god’ thought I got healed of my sciatic nerve problem, thought evil spirits were abounding and we were battling them. and some of the church kids were kinda jealous
cuz they were like “how do you get these visions from god its just amazing” LOL lets just say 3 months after that camp i went completely insane…
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Lol Irrationality.
i used to just sit on the couch and close my eyes in pure euphoria just seeing battles in space and God and the Devil fighting each other. Like Jesus Christ spiralling through the sky at light speed soaring through the stars and BAM 2 gigantic snakes pop up and its the Devil and they just attack. Then off in the Distance a Lion (the father god) Roars from the top of a Rainbow and then they go to battle.
not gonna lie they were some of the most fascinating vision ive ever seen. and I used to get this recurring vision of sonic the hedgehog stuck under water trying to get his air bubble and i thought it was me drowning lol.
This happened after the camp - i basically went into mania at the end of the camp for the next 2-3 months then went into psychosis for about 6 months.
it went undetected for quite some time because no one in my family had any knowledge of what mental illness was.
a church pastor told me i was exhibiting symptoms of bipolar when i thought i was Jesus, a few weeks later i ended up learning what that even was
I still get mild space visions when i try to go to sleep
Irrationality makes us the wonderful, fallible people that we are. I can’t imagine living in a world of pure logical thinking.
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thats actually true, without some irrational ideas , we would have never gotten where we are in technology today
It feels like more of a problem of perception to me. I think I rational reactions to things that I THINK are happening, but because what I perceive is wrong, it looks irrational.