Is paranoia a funny thing as an outsider

[anon1152203]

Sometimes I laugh and chuckle at stories of what people did while they were paranoid.

Can you sometimes see the funny part of it

[PlateOfBiscuits]

Definitely.

I go on a walking group and there’s another person with paranoid schizophrenia. We were telling each other about when we were paranoid. What he said sounded so comical to me, but I didn’t laugh as it was obviously really distressing for him at the time. My paranoia probably sounded comical to him.

I can laugh about some of the paranoia now and see that it was pretty outlandish. Flys in my house aren’t mini drones spying on me for the government.

[anon1152203]

Yea haha it is funny sometimes.

Even your fly thing I think is funny rofl

[ola]

i see humor in all dark plases. its the most fun part in trubles. whte can i do…

[PlateOfBiscuits]

A woman I met business networking used to telepathically communicate with me and take the mickey out of my wavering bikini line. That was pretty unpetting at the time but I can see the funny side now.

[anon1152203]

Lol that’s funny.

I remember there was this old lady who was convinced they were stealing slices of her bread in the shops.

She was convinced haha

[PlateOfBiscuits]

That bread thing is funny rofl.

I knew a man with paranoid sz when I was a teenager. He was convinced that ‘they’ were trying to spike his food and drink with LSD.

[Coldcomfort]

I’m a bit stumped for an instance of when it was really lol funny, but there were plenty of instances where my delusions and paranoia were out of the ballpark stupid.

Like when I thought people were using sonar to see what I was doing in my room, so I set up a fan to vibrate the walls and interfere with their reception. And the radio came on with some guy saying we’re having some interference, and me taking that as proof.

Then there was another time when I thought the next door neighbors were pointing a radiation gun at me, and hid in the concrete cellar to avoid the rays. Lol

Yeah some backwards stupid stuff that I took completely seriously and for a fact.

[brandotron]

During my second hospital visit I was trying to escape through the ceiling because I thought they were going to kill me. This was in the actual hospital not the mental health section.

Let’s just say the rebar in the bathroom ceiling didn’t hold my weight ha. I came down and was facing a cop or security officer with the rebar in my hand. I was severely delusional at the time and thought I could turn the rebar into a snake.

I told the officer to stay the f back “I’m going to turn this rebar into a snake” and he was like “I’d like to see that” so I dropped the bar on the ground and big surprise, no snake transformation.

So yeah I was so paranoid I climbed up into the hospital ceiling trying to run from the people who were actually trying to help me. Schizophrenia is a hell of a drug.

[Pikasaur]

I have a rule that I only laugh at other people’s paranoia and compulsive thoughts and stuff like that if they laugh at it.