So tell me, how do you wake up and realize the voices and visions aren't real?

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I just feel like I’m being tricked, like picking and sorting what I hate hearing and what I like…

How do you cope instead of letting it get the best of you?

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my meds help me the most tbh

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Yeah for me I’m starting to think it was the years of medication. Whenever I’ve tried to go off them my hold on reality gets shaky, if I stay on them everything stays in place. I’ve negotiated myself to a dose that I consider low and it works for me.

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My voices claimed to be real people contacting me psychically. I believed it until I challenge them to contact me in email or on the phone instead.

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I have that problem too - I used to think that there is a ‘machine’ the government used to get inside my head - I was mentally perfect most of my life and I would never think this way naturally …

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I also never experienced any kind of hallucinations or delusions until my szh started. At one point, I also thought there were psychic machines that could broadcast into people’s minds, in addition to some people that had natural psychic powers.

It all felt very real. It was horrifically traumatizing to realize that it was not.

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Why, if none of it is real does it feel like we have to trick our own minds out of it?

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It’s a mental illness. Our minds aren’t functioning properly when we’re in psychosis or suffering from delusions. It’s a troubling thought for me.

Before the onset of my symptoms, I had a reputation for being very smart and dependable. This was a huge part of my self-image and self-esteem. My life was very difficult when I was younger. Among other things, I was awkward and terrible at sports, so I was badly bullied for my appearance and lack of athleticism.

For me, my brain made up for that. Now I have to accept that I’m pretty severely mentally ill at times.

I know for a fact that my delusions are not real though. I’ve had enough experiences to prove them wrong and to make me look foolish when trusting them as well.

It hurts.

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