I’m at least now at the point where I can kind of see that the world doesn’t revolve around me. I’m one of seven billion people and most people don’t know me. Still, I get the feeling that some people do. Maybe it’s just the illness though. Anybody else feel like that? And to those that have overcome it, what did you do or how do you see things?
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I use to think everyone knew everything about me to even though I was a nobody. The longer I’m on meds the better it has gotten, to where I don’t even care anymore.
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I just take my med and it stops me from becoming delusional because if I wasn’t taking meds I’d be completely wrapped up in my own psychological mess, delusional, paranoid and maybe even worse,
The last time I was totally convinced I was under attack from the devil (and I still think I was) but it’s not affecting me as much since starting my meds again and I know it’s not all about me now (even though it is a bit)
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Real life is pretty easy for me to handle. It’s just things people say on social media that get me at this point. It seems like some of them make reference to me sometimes. I’m not sure how to get past that without going off social media entirely. Maybe i just need coping skills or whatever.
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I think most schizophrenics need more reassuring about life and people, i also lose my way a lot and everything confuses me.
I just accept now im ill and mind works differently to most people’s 
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Oh yeah I can’t do social media. If I don’t use it it’s one less thing to worry about with this illness.
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I think personally that wherever you go in the world you will meet people that seem more familiar and remind you of people you’ve already met and know.
Online we are using instincts based on how we write so its totally more difficult to judge someone based on what they write in a few words or a short video or one photo??
Its weird this old world and we’ve been labelled as sz different minds, i guess its normal for sz mind to judge perceive differently
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It’s difficult not believe your at the center of the world in some way when your hallucinations are centered on you and others supposed thoughts about you (for me thinking I was thought broadcasting and telepathic). However, I think everyone matters. But when you have hallucinations trying to convince you of some sort of grandiosity, a center of a conspiracy, or something else, it’s easy to get lost in it.
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I had some persecutory delusions when I was ill.
Then I ended psychotic on the streets and the cops took me to the hospital.
I know I’m not in the centre of attention. But rumors spread about me. It’s a sucky experience!
Neighbors gossip about me. They say I’m mentally ill and that I don’t work. People walk past my apartment and say that here is where that mentally ill guy lives. When I go to the store the employees talk sh-it about me.
You are lucky if you still have your anonymity left.
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I do get lost in all that a lot its like half my brain is brainwashed into saying the political correct thing but the other half knows how things really are
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I definitely know that something is wrong, but I can’t say what exactly it is. I don’t think everyone is in on it anymore, but I definitely think that more goes on than meets the eye. I honestly don’t think I’ll ever know or understand why things around me happen so I’ve kind of just given up. Everyone tells me that I’m sick so I have to believe it. Especially when I’ve gone back and watched the things I used to watch when I was sick and seen just how sick I was. I think there comes a point where you have to accept that it is a little bit of both: I’m sick and there is weird stuff happening. But I have been looking for answers for so long and none of it makes sense so I just let life be a mystery and do my own thing.
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I’ve just accepted that I’m sick. Nothing is in my control. I’m just along for the ride. Wherever it takes me.
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Thats where were different
Life is not a mystery to me
I understand it
But im not going to offend anyone or go into everything cos I’ll get barred lol
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I thought I had it too, but when your mental paradigms aren’t cohesive you start to realize it’s your own perception that is the problem. But you have to get to that point on your own. All I’ll say is that, if you told me that this was a dream, I would believe it, because I haven’t found a logical framework that makes this place make sense. So I just surrender to the mystery. If anybody has some answers, they can tell me. I listen to everyone. It’s just that all the answers I get from people point to me being ill so I know it’s me and my own perception that is the issue.
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