Poll: What kind of delusions have you had and what helped?

  • Aliens
  • Mind control
  • Conspiracy,FBI etc
  • Religious
  • Sexual
  • Other

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Mine if they could be called delusions, they came and went in waves, were sexually orientated ie a fixation about having internal female parts and being able to have female orgasms if I tried.
Not had them since being on a regular AP via depot.

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Everything but sexual …I’ve had aliens mind control religious and other

Meds helped

Medical Definition of paranoia. 1: a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations. 2: a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others.

Mine are the second definition. Suspiciousness (or suspicion in US spelling?) and hostility. Risperidone treats these symptoms.(I was on Risperidone for 10 years but now on Aripiprazole)
Although I still misinterpret verbal messages from passerby (suspiciousness), good news is that I have no more hostility.

Religious delusion is another symptom that I have not successfully overcome.

What helped a little?
Paranoia (suspiciousness and hostility): Achieve more concrete results and gain more confidence. Start doing by organizing cluttered mind.
Religious delusion: Refuse to admit that I am angelic creature or anointed Christian even the voice tells me the otherwise.

Thanks for the poll, firemonkey.

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@SzAdmin Could you change it to a multiple choice poll? ie up to 6 choices possible. I should have accounted for the possibility of people having multiple types of delusions .

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Done! Although I’m not szadmin :innocent:

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I’ve had delusions that I was hitler and I was in hell.

What a good poll idea - thanks for posting. Interesting…

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Also had delusion/false memory that I had written a minor pop hit, and that inanimate objects were going to start talking to me.

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mind control/thought insertion, telepathy, derealization/solipsism, delusions of reference(signs and tv), persecutory delusions, general paranoia. Some I could shake by mental gymnastics, others disappeared with medication.

I am not a big fan of CBT but has anyone had CBT aimed at controlling/reducing delusions? If so how well did it work?

I learned good coping mechanisms for my therapist and CBT, to the point when a delusional thought comes I can shake it off in seconds.

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I forgot to whats my delutions because drugs cut all of them but as i remember if i concentrate my brain enough i will be super handsome and super intelligent.because i felt that brain is responsible for face nerves and its getting ugly people if its not well concentrate.i was also if i think more than one thing i will be get complicate my brain and it will cause intelligent.result?i got …cking insane and i m on ap s now.so its highly not recommended

Aliens, delusions of communication, and people can read my thoughts.

So people generally believe into conspiracy and mind control but act like they need to behave here on the forums. :sweat_smile:

I’ve had conspiracy delusions, but have come to recognize them as delusions. It’s a very common delusion to have.

What helped for me was making note of all the times things happened that didn’t support my delusions - I had a cognitive bias that made the things that seemed to feed into it more obvious and glaring, while the things that didn’t I barely noticed.

I also made myself think of alternative, non-conspiratorial explanations for what I was seeing, which ended up mainly being an exercise in acknowledging that the world doesn’t revolve around me.

For me, moving really helped, too. I had overinvolved landlords (one even followed me across town and blocked me into my new garage after I moved just to say “hey”) who really fed into my paranoia. Getting away was a miracle for me.

I had mind control, aliens, grandiose delusions and all kinds of conspiracy stuff. Zyprexa is the only thing that helped.

My delusions used to be the CIA watching me because of scientific material I was reading.

Now I have religious delusions that I am going to hell because I am ignoring the “God” voice among the various voices I have.

Other. Close to religious- weird spiritual theories. Close to aliens- very evolved humans, like super genius way beyond u and I.

My main one is not necessarily mind control but the feeling that people could see/hear what went on in my brain, especially while having visions/voices I couldn’t control. Then I felt like I could determine what others were thinking. My biggest delusion is that people are laughing at me, or whispering about me.

Medication does help me to an extent, but eventually I just have to keep telling myself people can’t see into my mind, and I can’t read others mind. I’m still working on the people laughing and whispering about me…for now all I do is look away and try and convince myself that they’re laughing at something I didn’t hear/see, and they’re not talking about me. But that’s not too helpful all the time.