Hello everyone… I’m wondering what strategies you guys use to deal with negativity? I have the gang stalking/ psychological abuse “delusion” and I find it hard to deal with the constant waves of negativity. It makes it a lot hard to deal with my actual problems…
Any sincere and positive advice ? I really am just trying to vent the negativity…
What helps me is that I try to ignore the voices in my head and always know that in the back of my mind what im experiencing isnt real and they can’t actually hurt me. Hope this helps
Thank you !!! I’m gonna copy this list and try some of these out. Much appreciated 
Figure out what you can control and what you can’t
What is the negativity stopping you from doing?
Is fear an issue and also anger?
I was completely negative and fearful and when I let go of the fear of being harmed by others and death from others intentionally done to me I live my life positively
I love myself as a physically harmless person and also a person with good intentions towards others. I am very sorry if I offended someone and apologize and will do all I can to not offend the person again. These things are in my control.
Confidence helps me stay positive
I am not always positive towards others but with myself I keep and fight for keeping a positive judgement of myself
Knowing my symptoms of being stalked telepathically are 100 percent a medical issue. I am fearing a delusion that feels real and I tell myself it is not any intentions of anyone or anything.
When my medication removed all the thoughts and feelings of being stalked telepathically I had my willpower back.
I then did everything I desired and positive physical and psychological habits replaced the negative ones that had formed
Finding a combination of medication was key in removing my feelings of being stalked but I still was getting nowhere. Encouragement here on the forum to put my thoughts and body in motion and overcome the fear I had of moving on with my life did what the medication couldn’t. I am now not focusing on being harmed by others but helped by others. I also trust myself not to put myself in any situation that would put me in harms way.
Trusting in myself is positive not trusting others can be negative but also a protective position.
Find your innocence and realize what would make you feel guilt.
I have a very hard time with positivity when something is making me feel guilt
I am 53 years old and am the most positive about others intentions with me and my life. I still have issues with thinking people are controlling me psychologically and they don’t like my intentions for myself. But I focus on how people can help me not harm or abuse me. I stay positive telling myself if people can do so much wrong to me they can also do so much good to me.
When I view anyone as out to get me I see how much my meds make me completely forget about the person or people. If I am convinced then I do what I have to do and stay busy physically and mentally with things. Doing this creates a habit and I start forming a habit of focusing on what I am doing and want to do with my life. So far even with the fear I am getting what I want out of my life. I am becoming more used to fear and focusing on how I can continue with my life without building up anymore fear but building my life beyond what it is.
I try to distract myself from my thoughts, or simply do not think anything.
I have big problems with overthinking, and also with negativity… 
Music helps, too. Good movies. Going to the city and just walking. Or going to the nature.
Seriously… thank you man!!! It’s very encouraging to know someone found the way out… I hope I can get to were you are:pray:t5:
That’s what I’m trying to do now… stop the ruminating. It use to take over my life but now it’s just a bad part of my life. Idk why you over think but it’s usually my default when dealing with anger or shame… I hope we all find our way out!!! 
Don’t procrastinate! Just get on and do it.
It crossed my mind to get on the exercise bike and lose the xmas weight gain in the new year, but rahter than put it off I just went ahead and did it.
I broke the process into steps. 1) Get the bike ready (for the new year)
2) It is ready now, so why don’t i just go ahead and do it!
3) Did 5km at midday.
And then after dinner I did another 5km! Which I hadn’t planned on doing.
My tip is if you have the idea to do something, break it down into steps. And then do the first one. Then the following steps are easier to get on with.
A lady I knew gave me a 7 minute timer, an hourglass…and adviced to do 7 minute-jobs. This really helps me get from ruminating-mode into action-mode. It’s only 7 minutes. I noticed many things can be done in this time…folding laundry, doing dishes, cleaning the toilet, etc.
I experienced that delusion for years. It took a toll. It’s hard to be positive when you feel that’s going on. I don’t have any advice on how to stay positive except that my therapist told me that brain washing to an extent isn’t possible. I was worried I was gonna be brainwashed. I spend a lot of time occupying my mind with tv, youtube, family, friends, internet, or going to day treatment. If you need a break allow yourself to plug in some headphones and listen to music or watch something on YouTube. I believe you’re allowed to do that, to ignore the bs for a while.
I found the book “Overcoming Distressing Voices” by Mark Hayward, Clara Strauss and David Kingdon, a very huge help. The book showed me how to use CBT to make the voices lose some of their power over me. It’s very effective. There’s another book in that series called “Overcoming Paranoid Thoughts,” and I’m going to buy it next year.
For depression, I’ve got “The Feeling Good Handbook” by David D. Burns. It’s a huge comprehensive book (700 pages), but there’s something called a mood journal where you can use CBT to “challenge” distorted thoughts and replace them with new thoughts (this mood journal is at the beginning somewhere…around page 70). It gave me the strength to try writing a novel, and now I’ve got several novels.
Also, negativity does have some survival value and there’s such a thing as toxic positivity. The key is to find balance. Humans have a negativity bias, because noticing the bad things kept us alive in ancient times. It’s easy to take all the good things for granted, because they didn’t aid our survival as much as looking at the bad. Schizophrenic sufferers are usually even more hypervigilant, so I keep a box full of good things, on small pieces of paper, that happen to me and I’ll read it when I get down about life.
Thanks I will check those books out. I’ve heard of toxic positivity but never really knew what it was…much appreciated Flyingswan !!!
Thanks for the advice today is particularly difficult and I don’t know who to trust. Came back to this thread and realized not everyone is against me thanks guys
We are not! Sorry you felt that way…hope you quickly feel better. Not all people are scary, really. Good that this thread reminded you.
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