Hi All,
I have a curious question to ask from you. Anyone here had thought broadcasting delusion or thought that people could read your mind? If medicine cured your delusion, does that mean after you taking medicine, people stopped referring to your thoughts? And people stopped doing certain things (nonverbal actions) that correlated with your thoughts?
Thanks!
I had thought broadcasting when I was first hospitalized.
I was put on abilify and that stopped the feeling. I donât have any thought broadcasting now.
Itâs just another symptom of schizophrenia that meds can treat. Itâs not real.
Hi @raleigh Iâve had thought broadcasting a number of times. I found it extremely distressing. Feeling naked and wanting to censor my own thoughts.
The medication will stop it. It wonât last.
Itâs not real - itâs a symptom.
Hope you get relief soon. xx
According to what I experienced, thought broadcasting is not a feeling. People indirectly refer to the thoughts, or they respond to thoughts just like they heard it. So, Iâm curious to know if thought broadcasting stopped after taking medicine, does that mean you stopped observing these abnormal coincidences? Did people stop referring to your thoughts?
@unbe, thanks for the reply. Can I know what made you to think that your thoughts are broadcasting or people know your thoughts?
In 2015, it felt like they were reading my mind or my mind was open or being accessed. That people could see through my eyes. I largely recovered years later, but that was at my worst. Oddly, I was in the hospital at the time. The medicine did not work. I think time heals everything. I still got symptoms but itâs mild. I also thought I was psychic and could hear or listen to people talking about me or knew people were planning on hurting me. Was it a delusion? Not sure about the latter.
The doctor gave me adderall which I could not remember taking for years. I still dont know for certain. Maybe I did try it and it made me very sick. I also was messing with supplements like aniracetam which my doctor okayed at the time, but told me it increased dopamine.
I got a flood of memories and deja vu and stuff. Thought I saw a clone in the hospital. Saw people coming and going at whim in the inpatient section. Did not feel safe. Heard people talking about scary stuff but was convinced it was about me. Said some strange, delusional, paranoid, provacative stuff back in 2015.
In another life, I was so delusional from adderall psychosis and convinced I wasnât that sick, I tried to join the army while inpatientâŚThought I got sick in college or something. Luckily, it didnât happen in this life. They were pissed off at me for some unknown reasons. Probably stems from 2011 and an alien encounter or somethingâŚno clue.
In 2015, they had some scary people there. There was contraband and stuff. Some were not good citizens. Some had PTSD like my roommate.
I dont like the fact they brought people from the streets and literally picked them up and brought them to the hospital. That hospital CEO was crazy and evil.
@raleigh Sounds like what is happening to you is more of attributing meaning to coincidences.
For me I was strongly aware of my thoughts being broadcast publicly to everyone. I thought it was nice of them to pretend they couldnât hear them. I was confused when people seemed to not know what I was thinking. I couldnât understand why people asked me questions when they could hear my thoughts.
It was a feeling for me.
I used to think that people could read my thoughts. But since I started to take medication I stopped thinking that. Medication has helped me and I have learnt to rationalize. I have learnt that my thoughts canât be read. Itâs imposible.
I have this, it is absolutely awful feeling like everyone can read your mind and that people are playing your thoughts on the TV or radio. When I was in the hospital things they said on the TV correlated with what I was thinking, it freaked me out and made me have a panic attack. The radio has also done this. There have also been very strange âcoincidencesâ that happen right when Iâm thinking a certain thing, and it seems the universe is responding to my thoughts. Klonopin helps a lot when Iâm having an episode, and I have had less problems with it since getting on antipsychotics. When it was happening I would sometimes get angry when people would ask me questions because I thought they already knew what I was thinking. Sometimes I wonder if itâs still happening, but the meds just cause me to not notice it. I often wonder if older people have the ability to read minds, particularly old men, and itâs just a well kept secret. (Iâm a young woman)
@unbe Those were not coincidences. Coincidences are very rare events, isnât it? These events that I observed happened on a daily basis. So I guess you must have observed what I observed. Can I know some unique events that you observed in real life, which made you think that people know your thoughts?
Thanks @insidemind, Katherine85, Freyja for the posts. Can I know some actual events that you all observed as well, which made you conclude that people know your thoughts?
I didnât observe any events that made me think people knew my thoughts. I just experienced them being audible to everyone. It was a delusion, it wasnât really happening. People canât hear or know your thoughts.
Coincidences are very common. If your looking out for them, they are happening all the time. Iâve found that when Iâm not well I see meaning in lots of things that really have no meaning. For example once I thought that aliens were commanding me not to drink any water or there would be a natural disaster. They put me in hospital and gave me an IV drip, then there was a thunderstorm. I was distraught because I knew I had caused the thunderstorm. When I got better I realised the storm was a coincidence, I didnât cause the storm.
Nobody has access to your thoughts without you telling them what you are thinking. I know what it is like to believe that they do and I know itâs horrible. So I hope it goes away soon.
I didnât understand you. Can I know what you mean by this?
It doesnât make sense really, because it was a delusion/hallucination.
I believed that my thoughts were being heard by everyone, everywhere.
It has happened a few times. Once I thought it was only the police listening. So I got the most boring book I knew and read it. If they are going to listen to my thoughts, I might as well bore them so much that they give up. That made me feel better until it just went away.
Itâs like in your case without people saying a word that correlated with your thoughts or without seeing nonverbal actions performed by people, you believed that people know your thoughts? But itâs not the way how so many people out there have ended up concluding that people know his/her thoughts. So perhaps your case is a bit different then.
For example, this is how another person explained his experience.
I). âI used to think people could hear my thoughts, but that was because people would very often say something in response to what I had just thought. It used to scare me a lotâ â In other words, he/she observes human beings reacting to his/her thoughts in such a way where these reactions always show meaningful correlations to his/her thoughts; therefore, these are synchronistic events. A high number of synchronistic events as such has provided her false evidence supporting the false view that âpeople know my thoughts.â
Source: socialanxietysupport
I live a life of solitude. My parents turn the TV and radio off when I enter earshot, and I rarely ever listen to video or audio of people in a busy, outdoor area that people in the background can make mumbly âsecret messagesâ with. That was how I coped with thought broadcasting, just minimizing the circumstances in which it would happen.
Now my brain is doing well though, after an alkaline water regimen for 2 months. My voices are fully off, my brain feels more comfortable, but Iâm still afraid to test for thought broadcasting since I feel it might break my fragile peace.
Here are few more examples:
1). âThey respond to my thoughts instantly. Especially they âThey canât read my thoughtsâ thought, like today I thought this at a person at work and they literally turned right around and looked me right in my eyes and started saying something in reference to something Iâve been thinking about often. It was like he was a robot.â â**
âPeople around me visually react (itâs not me making an assumption of whether they could âhearâ me or not) â they physically contort themselves (their faces, their actions, what they say) in ways that would affirm that they are indeed aware that they can pick up my thoughts as I think them.â â
Source: Mentalhealthforum
2). **I canât believe humanity is actually in the dark about a phenomenon that is absolutely real and basically the most interesting thing we have come across so far as a species (in my opinion, of course). I would love to read anybodyâs take on this, especially if youâve been through something similar.â
Source: Mentalhealthforum
3). âI know other people like family can hear me because of the way they react or side comments when they hear itâ - This I found on this forum itself.
Donât try to court the phenomenon, just try to escape it. Iâll test my TB and give my findings on what works to treat it.
Thanks. In your case, what made you think that people know your thoughts?
Instant reactions to my thoughts when the people in question were in person, or on live TV. It would seldom ever happen with recorded audio / video. When it did happen with that, it would be like some kind of âspecial treatâ from the Creator or something, like heâs predicted my life out to that point, well in advance.
I donât think the synchronicities happen when the brain is 100% healthy and calm. The brain in that state just doesnât care to observe those synchronicities anymore since itâs so relaxed.
I feel some of thought broadcasting is subjective, where youâre just picking out and correlating events due to an exaggerated fight-or-flight mechanism (brain is on tilt with stress), and some of it is metaphysical and woo-woo, where the brain is either fabricating some sensory data, or itâs compelling people to behave in a certain way. The latter weirds me out badly.
How you came to the conclusion make sense. People around the world is observing a phenomenon and then they make various assumptions to understand it. Once this strange phenomenon established the view that âpeople know my thoughtsâ, some of them also assume that it could be that my thoughts are broadcasting. So the claim âmy thoughts are broadcastingâ is another assumption that people make to understand the observations?
By the way, synchronicities are real events:
