Do you guys sometimes get the sense that you are on top of the world when you have a psycotic episode? Sometimes I feel that I am being monitored and everything I do is so awesome and cool.
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Yes, I have grandiose ideas
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Yeah I have recurring symptoms of grandiose delusion. Like I am hidden camera tv star.
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Yes it used to, but not for couple of days. I am flat since few weeks.
This is truman show delusion.
I have it too
Do you have it all the time? I am going in and out of it for phases. Sometimes I think that I am not gonna have an episode again, and then I do.
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Yup. Grandiose ideas that I’m a trapped god.
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Some days it’s mild,
some days it’s severe
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I dipped in and out of my delusions of grandeur for the past few years. I am finally thinking that I got rid of them for good this year.
I would read some scientific articles, talk to some people, believe I am a schizophreniac. Then I start seeing “angels”, who slap me across the face and tell me that I am not hallucinating and that I should do as they say. Among a hundred other things. Usually I would believe “them”. Nowdays with some willpower old age slowling crawling up on me, I no longer see such elaborate hallucinations, so I am much less delusional than before.
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Do you guys have other diagnoses like symptoms, I have so many delusions, I am too lazy to list them up all. But oh boy oh boy I have a â– â– â– â– â– â– up brain.
Select one specific symptom and search the forum for it. I am willing to bet whatever you experienced, someone else who visits here did too. Experiences never map one to one however. You will always find some symptoms that much and some that don’t.
Yeah I used to believe i my delusions and that it will change my life. That I had to act and go out. But now with experience I know none of this is true.
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It is important to acknowledge the reality, and that delusions and “prophecies” (for some), fail. It triggers some mechanism in the brain, similarly to suddenly waking up. My delusions disappeared in short bursts, in small jumps, not gradually.
+++ I met many individuals who suffer from schizophreniac delusions for twenty, thirty, forty years. And they act exactly the same as during their first episode. I am sure they would have gotten better, if they were just guided to rationally accept the falsehood of their beleifs. That’s what helped me anyway. It took years, and it was exhausting but I believe in the end it paid off to challenge my own delusions.
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What is wrong with the feeling of grandeur exactly? many people have. When a celeb has it, they call it celebrity, entertainer or politician. Even though 99% of the people in the whole world don’t know who they are either.
When we do uncontrolled movements or stuck faces it is called sz symptom. When Jim Carey does it, it’s called humor.
I have “family “ who are nazi like and stuck up and such.
They think they are superior but they are not no matter what they do.
Even if they push to ground a d supress still don’t make it so.
You can see some babies and children are nazi like.
Thankfully there are good souls in children bodies.
I was excluded from society but I didn’t want to be with them anyway and how they suppressed me and treated me.
My x rescued me.
No I have my beautiful boyfriend and some precious loved ones.
There are celebrities that are down to earth.
Some very famous people can be lovely and not horrible.
Others are stuck up yeah n look down on those that aren’t as good as them in their view.
No, even in the midst of my more extremist metaphysical rants I temporarily return to the absolute nothingness i/we come from. Part of me remains convinced that, literally, I don’t exist.
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Early on during the illness I was convinced I had superhuman abilities. It helped to play sports again. I realized, “Nope, I don’t run faster than Usain Bolt.”
I do think that false sense of ability did help me perform somewhat better. I guess it is just because I pushed myself a little more than I normally would.
During my first break, I thought I was being recruited by the illuminati because of my intellect. Also, thought the police were messing with our air conditioning and water heater because my family had special abilities.
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