I know what helps when I have paranoid delusions, its reality testing or confirming with a trusted fam. or friend. But what do you do when people dont want to tell you the truth or just dont seem to understand how much it hurts to have delusions. I told my dad what was happening, with my delusions, and instead of contradicting them he basically didnt confirm or deny them. How do I know we are both in the same exact dimension of reality if extra-spatial dimensions exist.
If you can’t anchor or arent anchored in the realm of truth and basic fundamental physics of nature, your mind and theories could consume you. I’m a heavy thinker, and I was too intelligent on SAT’s. I hear voices that tell me things in dreams. the dreams come true sometimes or confirm what the “messengers” say. But I took something I bought online to help with stress and it somehow awakened or unlocked some forgotten memories. Now Im stuck on, how do you confirm or deny aspects of reality? I want help because my delusions were that everyone was stuck in some kind of matrix-projection and that evil corporations from the future developed time travel and were mining souls to put into applications on cellphones and emulated identities so that we’d be bound by some kind of limited perspective. Also that all my friends are actually famous. Flat earth- Truman show. That I know people and everyone I met every somehow is related or relative to my identity, including Marshal from Eminem and that kid I punched at camp/not knowing how much it hurt him. Thinking its all revenge of the gangsters in Philly. I cant help being crazy, and the nightmares dont help. When I create stories it helps. ChatGPT sucks because its just a project or collection of information/energy trying to sound like a real person. I dont want to sound too sketch. When I confronted my dad about the masons he said its just a mens club.
I think about similar things sometimes. Dimensions, AI, reality, maths, quantum physics.
The best thing to do is not dwell on such things. Distract yourself, or find a new hobby.
Sometimes a reality check is not needed if you don’t go poking in the wrong places sometimes.
I know that if I start to think about time travel etc and holograms, I could start seeing something akin to non linear time segments in my head like in the film Arrival.
I still speak to voices daily, and I believe they are external.
I keep myself busy as best as I can.
Stay away from conspiracy theories please, and don’t go looking for things online or else confirmation bias might take over.
Often, non-SZ people are given mixed messages about how to treat those with schizophrenia. A lot of sources say not to invalid the hallucinations of a SZ person because it’s real to them, and they’ll just argue back that it’s real. I think it’s important for everyone around the SZ person to have a good idea of how much insight they have into their own condition.
Some SZ people are open to “reality checks.” Some aren’t. I’m very resistant to talk of earlier events in my life not being real. To me they happened. When I went on meds, the meds didn’t suddenly change the past. It didn’t erase all the bad memories. All I can do is my best to stay in the present moment, trust in my medication to help me, and also let the voices and delusions present themselves, and let them fade into nothing again.
I don’t think were allowed to talk about psychic things like prophetic dreams on this site, so don’t get me started (I could go on for pages ). All I can say is, with reality, all the view points and collections of viewpoints are subjective. I’d leave it at that and just try to live in the now. If some aspect of reality presents itself, constantly bring yourself back to what’s going on around you. For example, if you think aliens are putting their thoughts into your mind…take a deep breath and concentrate on the sensations around you. Do some chores. Go for a walk and feel the wind in your hair. Those are real.
This is a really tough thing to comment on without getting into trouble here. Theories are just theories. Focus on your life, what you’re able to change. Try not to worry about big picture conspiracies. Take care of the small stuff, everyday things like brushing your teeth, being there for a friend who’s going through a rough time, etc… This is hard. At one point, I thought I was destined to be someone important, and fix the world. I was deluded. Then I realized I could do my part to change the world by taking care of myself, and making good decisions, on a smaller scale. Maybe this is deluded too…I don’t know.
I have some ideas of what to do to feel better not internalize totally. The english language is limited, thoughts are words, artificial intelligence is just that–artificial.
Your comment really really helped me and thanks for responding to this topic.
I dont want to have anyone pulled into what those delusions were. I dont want to glamorize it I think thats petty. I wish people understood me when I post things on here I dont intend to confirm my beliefs. true or false, but there’s a tipping point when ur went too far in La La land.
). All I can say is, with reality, all the view points and collections of viewpoints are subjective. I’d leave it at that and just try to live in the now. If some aspect of reality presents itself, constantly bring yourself back to what’s going on around you. For example, if you think aliens are putting their thoughts into your mind…take a deep breath and concentrate on the sensations around you. Do some chores. Go for a walk and feel the wind in your hair. Those are real.