Do you sometimes wonder if maybe the animal you’re looking at is you?
- Yes
- No
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I had a goldfish. But I did not want to take care of him anymore. So I gave him to my mother. But we had a good relationship. He was always very active and swam in all directions. Very motivating when you realize that such a goldfish has a heavily restricted life in a fishbowl.
But I did not think he was looking at me. I think he suffered from social anxiety. I have not done antipsychotics in the fish bowl because otherwise I was afraid that he would die.
This question confuses me.
How can I be the animal I’m looking at? 
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No, but I pet the neighbours cat the other day and it was the high point of my existence 
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Maybe you’re both. I don’t know. But I get this feeling often, and especially today.
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Yes i still believe animals can look into my eyes and see my soul.
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Those are all of those weird anxiety symptoms. Like what if I am in another paralel universe? What if I am not myself but that this is a dream? What if I am that animal that I look at?
psychotics sometimes come up with the most creative ideas.
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It’s not anxiety for me. It happens more when I’m feeling out of it and indifferent.
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But does it gives you a good feeling when having that thought? Or is your mood just stable?
It’s like a non-feeling, if that makes sense. Like I’m drifting slightly away from myself as I watch the animal and then I get this feeling that I am the animal. But I’m aware that it’s not something a normal person would believe.
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interesting. My psychosis was mainly due to mood swings. My delusions also glowed from that. So if you have psychotic delusions without mood swings. That seems very unsettling to me. And it therefore seems difficult to connect with your environment. Because in principle you are dealing with completely different things as the “normal” person.
I have mood symptoms but they are mostly unrelated to my psychotic symptoms. And they’re all mostly under control, but I’ve had a little flare up since yesterday.
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It’s not a big flare up, just a little one.
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How should I see that? your mood determines which glasses you look through?
I don’t know. Off meds I’m psychotic all the time. When I have hypomanic symptoms I also feel invincible. And sometimes I get hypomanic symptoms after psychotic experiences. But they told me my hypomanic symptoms are just part of my psychoses.
My mood is fine now.
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I just think when i see kangaroos, that theyre hunting me like the veloceraptors in Jurassic park…
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I have a fish that I think has my soul. Like not that I’m explicitly the fish or the fish me, but we have the same mind. Same soul.
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Like, I am the animal as I am the multiverse?
Yeah, that’s one way to look at it.
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Ok, then Ima changin’ muh vote. Yes.
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