Yes, It’s a famous experiment in physics, and a big question that have not yet an answer: Does observation affect the outcome? I know that in detail because I’m a scientist. as you said may be I see what I want to see, and my observations are distorted by the way I think. 
I will do the same, I will discuss it with my parents, I’m afraid I have no other possibility. thanks again
What helped me beat them was, first of all, good therapy. My doctor helped me see where fantasy began and which were the probable causes. After that, I made an effort to speak freely and openly with my friends about the things that made me delusional (I didn’t take about my delusions themselves, but their motives) and the more I talked, the more I saw. The more I heard my doctor’s advise, the more I linked myself to reality. It has been, however, a slow process.
I’ve been in therapy for just four months, but they have been well used. Mydoctor told me too that my prognosis was milder than most, so perhaps I can get 100% recovery if we do this treatment properly through many months and perhaps a year or to. That’s something I emphasize because maybe not everyone can get rid off their delusions.
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I’m really happy for you, realizing that other people can recover from this illness give me hope. Having confidence in your doctor and other people is a big step, I’m sure you are on the right way. My problem is this : I’m afraid they will hide “the truth” from me if it’s a real telepathy, it will be frightening to the point of being a taboo. I know that all this is only in my mind, but sometimes emotions beat reason.
Thank you. I suggest you to see a doctor, it will be very helpful and perhaps you won’t have to suffer what I did.
I tell you what happened: I had delusions just as you, they were a little thing, and I didn’t know if they were real or not. However, slowly and steadily they built up in my brain, and filled me with stress. All of a sudden I had a psychotic episode, and my family sent me to a doctor. I didn’t pay attention to my delusions, but you noticed them, so you are in a better situation.
If you go to a doctor he can help you find strategies to cope with them, and perhaps he will prescribe you a medication. If I would have gone sooner I would have been put probably in risperdal, just as I was, but at a much lower dose, and my symptoms would have been not that strong.
You seem to be the same way I was after some months of delusions. It took me a year to break down. If you go now, you will save yourself some pain and damage.
As you say, emotions beat reason, it’s very hard, but you don’t have to do it alone.
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I am becoming more and more sure that if I’m not going to do something, nothing will change. So seeing a doctor may be inevitable, but I I’ve heard of horrible side effects of meds like being tired all the time, or even having some hallucinations when starting with the treatment. Any way, if it works I don’t care, I prefer to suffer for a while than to be imprisoned with my delusions for the rest of my life.
The side effects are horrible, but only if the dose is very high. In my case I took risperdal up to 6mg a day, and the effects were so brutal that I had suicidal thoughts (I never felt so bad in my life, ever) but I believe that if I would have gone to the doctor sooner (four, five, six months before my episode) he would have put me in a lower dose. 3mg or 2mg or even lower. I’m right now at 1.50mg and honestly I don’t feel so many side effects: no more weight gain, no more pain, no more tiredness.
If the doctor puts you in a low dose, you may feel little to no side effects. Better to be careful now than to be sorry later.
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I really appreciate your advice,I just wonder why your doctor put you on a high dose early, is it because he wants you to recover faster or because you symptoms were severe.
I’m happy that my advice helped you, as your post helped me.
My doctor put my on that dose because my symptoms were severe, but there is a story behind that: after months of mild paranoia and the idea of thought broadcasting getting slowly but dangerously in my brain, I collapsed and had a lot of intrusive thoughts and little physical feelings like my body and mind were being controlled by someone else. It all happened because I was under an inhuman amount of stress, but telling you about it would make a very, very long post in itself. The story of my stress is one filled with duty and burden and hard activities here and there.
I needed the meds to get off the symptoms. And slowly I’ve got better. It was just four months and a half since I started my treatment, but I’m symptom free. The only thing that troubles me is that I have sometimes the fear that I could get delusional again, and that triggers and anxiety response.
Perhaps you don’t need meds, but whether you need them or not is something you can find out talking with a doctor.
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Thank you my friend, you are really kind. I think that sharing our stories and experiences can help many of us. In fact, discovering that I am not alone in struggling with this, it helps a lot. It convinces me day after another that there is something wrong with me, you know when a belief established, it’s very difficult to remove it. And about using meds, if this is the fastest way to recover, as it happened with you, I will choose it gladly even with its side effects, but as you said, it’s the decision of the doctor.
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You sound just like me in this post. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to shake it.
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Yes, what is amazing about this is that I know that so many people suffer from it, but I can not believe it happens to me, nor do the others believe, each of us thinks he is a special case. 
Because it feels so real.
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I know, that’s what I experience every day, it’s like I’m wearing some kind of glasses and I see the world through it.
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I thought people read my thoughts.
turns out most were reading my face. so I just keep my face away.
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interesting post
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It’s true, when I think the person in front of me reads my mind, it appears on my face, so he reacts to my facial expression, but I think he responded to my thoughts. But what really confuses me is that I heard some people repeating my thoughts.
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thank you, i hope it helps.
People do it to me and react to my emotions and thoughts even when I hide my face entirely.
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yes, that happened in college one day. I was sitting in class, and there was a very cool person sitting nearby.
after class, I went to the bathroom, and some dude was talking about how he wanted… to do something… to that person.
but I’m realizing that people sometimes share similar thoughts. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
still, I aint going back to college. lol lol lol lol
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