but you can call it ‘bs’ which means you aren’t so caught up in it that it dominates your sense of reality
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I’m sorry you struggle with it. I hope you can find some way to make it easier.
I personally do not believe medication can help me, but only worsen things. This is why I get in trouble a lot on here. When I talk about it, it is seen as forcing my anti-med opinions on others, which I do not. If it works for you than that is awesome, and keep at it! It personally just does not work for me. Some say this is part of my ‘delusion’.
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I am very functional. You would never guess, in a million years, that I have some nutball delusion. I do not talk about it besides on here and with my kids. I am aware that the world sees it as a BS delusion, yes, that is true. But I do believe it.
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I don’t have sz (well not that I can tell) and only came to know anything about it bc my wife developed it last year. But boy, I have some fantastic delusions inside my head! Some of them leak out and I get paid very highly to turn them into intellectual property. It kind of freaks me out a little seeing my crazy thoughts that become inventions get classified under an international treaty as “secret”. I have aspergers…
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I understand. We all have to do what is best for ourselves. I have had 3 hospital trips for psychotic breaks related to my delusion and I feel (hope? think?) that the risperidone helps with that. It’s a funny thing believing in a delusion but taking meds out of fear of becoming psychotic. I am afraid for my safety. I am afraid I may hurt myself. That’s the big thing. Otherwise, I would probably do without meds since they don’t seem to make a dent in my ‘delusion’.
At any rate, I wish you the best with your situation.
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Wow, that’s very interesting. I suppose many great inventions and ideas that are way out there may have felt or seemed like delusions when they were conceived. Congratulations on all of your success.
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Well, I have heard of people having success suppressing delusions with meds. Usually it just takes trial and error to find the right one.
I wish you luck as well.
Thanks. Yea, it’s a funny old thing when a lot of the big technology breakthroughs that have occurred have been by people who live in the grey area between fantasy and reality. N. Tesla being one who existed in this space and to whom we owe much of modern electrical engineering.
My biggest delusion is that the model we describe the human being by is back to front and rather inadequate. I’ve been developing “a better model” for about 20 years now and it has become very complicated.
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The puppet show.
Thank you very much, you’ve answered my question, but not entirely, because time and a good memory of the strange bring the picture together.
But, you do bark up the wrong tree here, you’re only fighting yourself trying to hard to prove to yourself that this is what you know. No one disputes what you believe or don’t believe, makes me wonder who your trying so hard to convince?
So,
on this note, you can chalk up the time it takes to talk,
for the damage done, you don’t own
that which hasn’t been earned.
and then there is this to consider, you may get rich from what others know, but you can’t entertain those whose lives you stole.
You would do well to nurture, not steal, from those whose lives you depend on for your talent.
Because when they’re no more, you follow behind, for your wealth is not from your well.
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Is this a poem? I really liked it if it is
Late as usual…had a rather sit down day yesterday.
In response to you Question, no.
No it wasn’t a poem, not intentionally, but you can do what you like with it.
Plenty more where that came from.
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Please write more, you have a talent there.
If it helps, it really is a delusion. Your mind is your mind, no one can control your thoughts but you. check out this comic:
http://zenpencils.com/comic/nerdist/
I appreciate your good intentions. Unfortunately, simply telling me it’s a delusion doesn’t make me believe it any less. If it were that easy, I wouldn’t need medication. I’ve got 100 reasons to NOT believe and very few reasons TO believe it. I more than get that. I still really believe it. That’s what makes it a delusion.
P.S. Interesting comic.