They are putting the images in my head again. I wanna curl up in ball, and scream, and cry. I want it to stop.
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maybe chatting on here will help?
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try to occupy yourself with something.
Try to do something to put your mind off the images.
@ChildOfFate
something mental, like reading,something that requires concentration.
@Mountainman Maybe that way I can get my mind off of it.
@Erez_Shmerling I’m trying I just have to be careful because sometimes they will twist what I’m doing and turn it bad like if I try to think happy thought they make them bad and then I feel worse.
what would you like to chat about?
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Calm down as much as possible and practice that grounding technique I gave you yesterday. Rub your hands together, smell you essential oils etc. The images can’t hurt you.
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I’m sorry this is happening to you.
Can you write down your feelings on paper? Or draw your feelings?
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@Mountainman ummm very good question I’m not quite sure.
@anon84763962 okay okay grounding technique I can do that. I’ll take deep breaths too breathing always helps.
@kindness drawing? Hmmm drawing. Drawing sounds good. Maybe when I’m a little more calm though otherwise I can’t focus and the drawing slips away from me.
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Okay okay I think I’m better now. What I see in the images won’t happen. I won’t and don’t cause bad things to happen so everything is okay.
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Just keep repeating that to yourself when/if it happens again. You got through it, good for you. That means you’ll get through it again if needs be,
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Okay now that I have this worked through I need to figure out how to sleep. Cause thats another big issue.
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Have you tried Benadryl? It can help with sleep problems.
When I can’t sleep, I do a guided meditation video from YouTube. I don’t know if that would trigger unpleasant images in your head, though.
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I have melatonin and that knocks me out I just haven’t been taking it because I’ve been scared to.
It might especially since I would be trying to sleep.
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Remember, you can do the most good for everyone if you are properly rested. Taking melatonin sounds like a very good idea. It will help you sleep. While you are asleep, the world will keep on operating the way it always has. No tears in the fabric of reality will occur.
According to the multiverse theory, if anything ever did pass from one universe to the next, it would completely collapse both universes. So, you know that no monsters have entered our universe, because the universe still exists. Also, any universes close enough to ours to allow anything to pass would have a very similar structure to our own. Since monsters don’t exist in our world, it is highly improbable that any surrounding universes would have monsters. All of this is according to books I’ve read by Stephen Hawking and Michio Kaku, as well as physics lessons. I don’t know if that helps you dispel the beliefs at all, but that’s the science behind your fears.
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It’s close it’s so close to breaking through the delusion. I don’t like this delusion. I don’t like it at all I want it to go away.
But what about when I see them scratching at reality? And when the world bulges and moves when it’s not supposed to?
Those are visual hallucinations caused by a combination of excessive dopamine in your brain and a lack of sleep. Lack of sleep causes visual hallucinations in everybody, not just people with psychosis.
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Okay so they are because I don’t get enough sleep and too much dopamine. So they aren’t from the non existent monsters. (I forgot for a bit I was supposed to say non existent.) Okay so this proves that the monsters don’t exist, because they aren’t scratching at reality that’s just my brain anyways they probably wouldn’t even be able to cross into this reality. Even if they could they don’t exist because they are only made up by my mind. Right?
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Exactly. You know all the facts. The trick is to start believing them. It takes a lot of repitition.
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Believing is always the hardest part for me but I will eventually I just have to work on it.
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Whenever I’m really bad I come on this forum. After a while of psychosis I find it difficult to understand what I read, or really anything at all. At that point I just look at what people have written and wait for the medication to take effect.