I’ve been broadcasting for who know how long I’m going to go with at least 6-8 months I’ve been on and off olanzapine started back on it for 3 months now 10mg doesn’t seem to do much for it could anyone tell the meds you took to stop it and how many mg also if there’s anything else you did that stopped it would be greatly appreciated thanks for your answers
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What exactly is thought broadcasting? I think I’ve had it before I was on meds.
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Its a hard one
Cant give any advice
Abilify here
Yes, abilify stopped mine too. Your mileage may vary.
The belief that your thoughts are being broadcasted to others and turns out it’s real
First off it’s not real, and you have to start by telling yourself that. I would regain my composure best I could and tell myself time and time again it wasn’t real. But meds was the real answer and that you just have to find what works for you. I take Saphris, Rexulti, Topamax and Cymbalta.
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Right. You’re not curing thought broadcasting, you’re treating a delusion. That’s all it is, and that’s all you should treat it as.
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Is thought broadcasting also hearing other people’s thoughts but it’s not real?
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What worked for me is remaining consistently that part is important, on my antipsychotic, and avoiding drugs and alcohol, so I was initially put on 15mg abilify. And after 2 months it all went away.
Tbh idk if I needed to be on that dose though because second time round wen I went off meds n got psychotic I was put on 5mg abilify and the thought broadcasting etc went away on 5mg too.
Maybe it needed a higher dose the first time round I’m not sure. But the doctors didn’t give me the choice verbally to experiment with 5mg first which I find very annoying
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I had some thought broadcasting mixed in with a whole lot of thought insertions. That’s what tortured me for 33 years. What finally got rid of it for me was a combination of the AP’s: Risperdal Consta 37.5 mg injections, Geodon 240 mg oral, and Seroquel 100 mg oral.
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@Riley01, hearing other people’s thoughts is “thought insertion”. And, no, it’s not real.
From my experience thought broadcasting started with thinking your thoughts are being monitored, so you didn’t have the privacy to think. Then your thoughts just pop out everywhere. Let your mind rest. Clear your mind and then your thoughts will come out at the appropriate time. Hope this helps.
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Sheer disbelief and an eventual cracking in the armor of the believability of the experience. Psychosis is good at keeping a sufferer confinced… it will turn the sufferer against themselves just to gain traction and have the sufferer then set back into fear established by the trauma of the onset experience of psychosis… and whatever delusions or superstitions that may have pre-existed the presence of the illness.
I still have symptoms… but they have fallen from being an ongoing occurrence… to something that only has a real impact on me about 5 times a day or so. Which is significantly better… I can move away from the psychosis and psychotic thinking if I can keep the number that low…
It’s more about feeling than thinking… though the two are intertwined.
I’d say that you gotta pay attention to what things are like when you aren’t struggling with it so bad… take to any little break you get with attention… let the peace of it set in.
You basically have to rebuild your own brain and state of being… and it just takes the choice to empower what is good… and the wisdom to avoid the states that are bad.
People can’t hear your thoughts… nor see the innards of your mental experience… people can read each other to some extent but that is entirely from the outside.
What is actually happened is that your attention and the way your mind documents the presence of other people has been become hallucinatorily exaggerated and turned against you.
It is like being in a waking dream… the subconscious is just that quick and creative… it will try to keep you spooked.
As far as what actually broke down and allowed this to happen in a lot of our minds is still more or less a mystery. I think it is just abnormal brain behavior… like autism… expect is hardly respected on the same level, because it doesn’t take much for us to start seeming more functional… and because of this everyone else has a natural bias to have normal expectations from us… even though we more or less are trapped in another world.
Keep strong, keep talking with us… this is a great site for sorting out your own thinking and finding a feeling of not being alone in the struggle. You’ll find support of all kinds… even if you find folks you don’t agree with.
There really isn’t a “Cure”… there is only the vague but stable capacity to grow into and perhaps out of the effect of the experience.
I don’t know if I mentioned it, but I’ve had this delusion and all the reinforcing hallucinations for 7 long years… and while I have made it about 90 percent of the way back to normal… it’s still a pain at times… and I might easily still have trace hallucinations for the rest of my life. Those occasional states of it setting back in… dire moments of panic… bad visions… the need to immediately re-establish self-control just to find trust.
It’s complicated… you gotta find what works for you… I found coming to understand what trust is, why I need it, what I can actually trust… even just in my own sense of motivation and appreciation of other things.
Heres some of my mantras…
I like humanity, we’re about to go to space
I like the universe, it’s so intricate and all of these insanely cool things are possible
I like people, not all people, but there are people I do really appreciate, especially those who are trying everyday to establish a brighter future for humanity.
I can make it through another day… I’ve mad it through hundreds upon hundreds of days.
I can make it through this shift of work… it’s only 6 hours and then I’ll be back home
Ultimate final note (I mean I could go on all day [cause I have to I also have this illness]): It’s being trapped in the ongoing moment of life that is one of psychoses strongest pillars… the importance of the moment has to be challenged. What is happening in an immediate instance should not define nor constrain your sense of what life is in general. There is more going on and an almost infinite list of things to live for and new things to try.
Like pick a category on here… have your head expanded (the safe way)… It’s been opening my eyes to things over the last couple days:
do you think this is mind control targeting? I used to talk to my kids in the car, to my son, How was your day, Alec? I would think, my daughter is going to say, Mom, he can’t talk. Then a moment she said, Mom, he can’t talk.
Phil says he’s thought the same thing at the same time with someone else many times. ok. ok.
Did it take the people inside your head out?
I didn’t have people inside my head.
I feel the same way, my thoughts are all over the place. I need my thoughts to rest but it is difficult. People are trying to put pictures in my mind and tel me I am not going to make it. I just want to be left alone.
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