For me when I get paranoid I can make these very good connections between two seemingly unrelated things. I am hyper aware of my thoughts. And I hallucinate.
Lately I’ve been using these things to my advantage!
Hopefully someday you will find it’s not such a bombardment but something that you can easily manage and live with idk I got enlightened yesterday by my voices it was sick!
Love Yourself!
It’s more than just about trying to find deep meanings in life. Be productive with it! 
Yeah we all have these same symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. Some have it worse than others. But don’t use all your energy on fighting to be “normal” because nobody is normal.
If you entertain this ■■■■ it has a good chance of driving you mad. These are super powers, they are a total distraction from real life. Only rarely are they enjoyable… at least for me.
Good luck man…
You seem to embrace the illness… I can’t tell if that’s a good or a bad thing.
I know it’s hard for you man. If things start matching up with your thoughts like people seem to read your mind just know it’s you that are doing that and when you start hearing voices that are saying they are other people talking to you with their mind know it’s just that hallucination. Yeah these phenomenons are happening. It doesn’t mean we have to jump to conclusions and think people are reading your mind.
(Assuming you have the same “problem” as me.)
Don’t let these thoughts scare you use them so you can change for the better!
Once you realize these voices are not other people you can talk to yourself as if you were talking to a weird verson of yourself…
Yeah it has a good chance of driving you mad but that but that is the “maintenance” part of the illness.
ive taken that approach when i hear voices, just knowing it is just me, reasoning with them maybe ask them a question or 2 but really knowing it is just myself reasoning with myself lol.
Yeah it is A LOT easier when they’re quiet.
yeah , its weird this year they have pretty much gone quiet for the most part. only piping in at night occasionally. i still get a lot of closed eye hallucinations though.
I do not approve. I don’t have super powers, I just have lots of things going well for me. Look at my powerlifting videos on here, and keep in mind that I am short, I’m five and a half feet tall. It looks superhuman to people who don’t know the sport. I wasn’t even the highest rank, I was the second highest.
I also do very damn well in school, I do research in psychotherapy. I haven’t made a B on my transcript since I got on medication before my sophomore year.
These are not super powers. These are my natural abilities. If I wasn’t schizophrenic as ■■■■, I would be in ROTC right now.
This illness is a curse, we do happen to have a broader range of associations which can help with some things like vocabulary, but without the illness I would be more.
I do not have super powers. I have a chronic and severe mental illness that is incurable. I scored 92/100 for paranoid scz on the MMPI2 when I was evaluated and diagnosed. I had incessant hallucinations and delusions. I happen to be smart. I happen to be ambitious. I happen to be strong. The illness did not make these things happen. Before the illness, I was at an all honors international school and had a 3.9. I was a martial artist and I spent at least 15 hours a week training. Imagine what I would have been if this shitt did not happen to me.
You make a poor example for what people recovering from this illness. Believing in super powers due to a mental illness sounds like a bad joke.
The correct steps are down the path of treatment compliance and insight into what makes us suffer. You are on the wrong train, high on cocaine, going 100 miles per hour.
This thread belongs in the deluaions section. I and a few others on here set the tone for the recovery section.
Yeah medications help A LOT lol.
I know it’s hard but it gets better! I promise!
I have a shitty vocabulary and word choice but I’m working on it.
I definitely agree, it may give us a broader perspective and be able to associate things differently. but overall it is a massive handicap to getting ahead in life.
It doesn’t get better on its own. I am a finished product by my psychiatrist and psychologist. You should take medication. If you had diabetes, would you not take insulin? What about a cold, would you take cold medicine? If you broke a bone, would you see a doctor? Why not take anti psychotics when you have a psychotic disorder?
I’m not saying don’t take meds at all. I’m saying take them and you will get better. Now that you are better you can see your thoughts as what they truly are THOUGHTS and you can see what your voices really are VOICES.
All I’m saying for the most part is don’t give in to your hallucinations be aware know when you are getting “sick” or whatever take more meds if you really need them. But you can take that a step furher once you are not under the influence of yourself.
But the first step is recognize you have a disease.
The last part is to make the better out of things, just because you are not there yet doesn’t mean no body else is…
Wish I could give this post more than 1 like. This sums up the crux of what I try to convey here.
Doesn’t mean recovery is impossible…
It seems like everyone is saying the same thing in different ways, I mean, we might not all be in the same exact boat but we’re definitely part of the same fleet. I hope I remember correctly about response to a threat, the three ways being adaption, migration or death? I think that’s it. I think that applies here. Personally, I wouldn’t call anything a super power unless I was in complete control. Curses can have their gifts and vice versa, I think it just depends on each individual “curse”.
Make the better out of things? Do you even know who I am?
yeah of course it isnt impossible, i am proof of that.