I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia for 4 years now. I just got a therapist and a psychiatrist this year. This is all very new to me. I need help understanding this. I can’t shake my grandeur delusions. I don’t know what to believe. Need some expert advice
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Welcome to the forum!!! I struggle with what others say are hallucinations and delusions so I may not be of help to you. But there’s a lot of people here who can be helpful.
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Welcome to the forum! Medication goes a long way for most people, but as you will quickly find out on this forum, there are lots of people who have a hard time shaking off their delusions. Feel free to post specifics when you are comfortable and I’m sure you will get lots of replies. Just keep in mind that these are just fellow people with mental illness and not to take their advice over your doctors.
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I always thought it was normal to feel special.
Nowadays I’m not so sure.
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I feel like people can read my mind. I’ve experienced paranormal stuff with my friends. I don’t what to believe. Has anyone else experience supernatural stuff with other people?
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I feel someone is reading my mind. It’s not the most comfortable of experience. I tell them, I’m busy, go away.
It helps.
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Watch talking about religion. It isn’t allowed. I have delusions of a Higher Power as they say in AA doing things to me. My pdoc just upped my AP dose, and I’m doing better as of last Friday night.
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I have had the “people can read my mind” delusion. It slowly faded away with meds. It is a very common delusion. Lots of Schizophrenics have it.
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What’s a “AP dose”?
I’ve had a crazy doctor before. He seriously acted like a mental patient with schizo pretending to be the doctor. But he really was the doctor. If you’ve been to a psych ward, you guys know it’s normal for the doctor to only stay a a couple hours and leave in the evening but this one doctor stayed 24/7 and was acting crazy. When we talked, he just kept laughing. He didn’t even dress professionally. He looked like a 40 year old dressing like a emo kid with “fingerless gloves” kinda like motorcycle gloves and he had very long unkempt hair. And he just kept laughing at me. I want to believe he was a patient acting like a doctor, but he really was the doctor. When I went in to his office, we just stared at each other and laughed, we talked about nothing. I was also hearing very evil voices in my head when I was in his office. He stayed at the psych ward all day and night. At night he would make crazy noises and rummage through this paperwork like he was crazy. I can never forget him. It was very scary. The medication he prescribed me made me hear voices to overdose on the meds he gave me and attempt suicide. I did it and woke up in another mental hospital. In my eyes, he was the devil in human form. I’ve never heard crazier, sick, demented and evil voices ever until I looked him in the eyes. I can’t shake this belief. Other people in the psych ward was also punching walls and screaming “he’s not my doctor!”. My story is 100% real.
AP …is antipsychotic. Most people here take them and other psych meds. It’s just a part of being sz ( schizophrenic ).
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AP is shorthand for antipsychotic.
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What are some schizophrenic beliefs that you guys can’t seem to shake off? And why?
And is there any other medication besides ap and benzodiazepines that can make me feel less crazy and less depressed? The most depressing part about schizo is finding out that everything you believed is a lie.
It’s not a lie. It’s just distorted thinking. Delusions are very seductive and many people get lost just indulging in that sort of thinking. Life just is and with schizophrenia your attacked at the core of your being as your thought is seriously distorted.
It’s a journey but there’s many a success story come through these boards. You can get better and people do.
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I’ve had lots of different delusions during my years as Sz…religious, technological…etc etc. But I’ve been stable on my meds for a couple years now. Now I have only negative symptoms…apathy, lack of motivation, anhedonia and the like. No delusions.
I also thought others could read my mind but the meds made that go away unfortunantly your going to have to take meds
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I hope I can get better but I can’t explain these strange “coincidences” or schizophrenic moments that I’m sure we all experience. The craziest part is that I experienced it with other people. I can’t shake this belief. Do you have distorted thinking or beliefs that you can’t shake off?
I had a fear of taking AP’s too when I was first told to take them. I thought they were poison. They aren’t perfect but for most people they do the job.
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