I recently came to the stunning revelation that i was crazy. I don’t hear voices but my thinking is delusional. I’ve overcome the Truman delusion by sitting in public and repeating to myself that nobody knows me and, when I began to realize it was true, reality magically came back into balance (which was pretty cool). To those who are successful at managing their delusions, what techniques or mantras help you? I find myself being pulled back into other delusional thoughts and I’d like to stay in the real world. Thanks.
I have schizophrenia and with me the correct dose of an antipsychotic makes my delusions go away.
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When I relapse my psychiatrist and I would increase my AP for a while.
I have a little insight that things are not the way they’re suppose to be when I get delusional. But insight is not immediate. I go through severe anxiety, agony and discomfort before I would consider that something is wrong.
I can’t really manage it without meds.
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I’ve been on every single anti-psychotic and none of them have worked. Everything from Clozapine to Haldol to Invega to Risperdone to Abilify. Truthfully, my guru is the one who brought me back to reality, or at least close to it. But again, my inclination is to revert to old thought patterns. Maybe I just need a therapist, but I figure some people out there have to have found a way to manage their thoughts and keep them in line with the way things actually are.
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When I was delusional I always had insight but I couldn’t shake the delusion either and would impulsively follow along. I came up with a work around. A common delusion for me was that my food was poisoned so I wouldn’t eat. I started internally repeating to myself that the poison was defective and didn’t spread properly so it was only in one corner of the food. I’d eat everything except for that corner.
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I can’t help my delusions except through meds at proper dose.
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