A couple of years ago I had what I called the ‘Turkey Delusion’. I was seeing turkeys everywhere! The country, Turkey was always on the news, and locally…wild turkeys were running all over my town!
I thought the whole world was mocking me…like i was some kind of giant turkey or something!
What was one of your strangest/ and in hindsight, funniest delusions?
This is going to make me look bad, but hey, WTH.
One of my earliest delusions, even before I was diagnosed was I thought I could tell if someone had oral sex just by looking at their mouths. Yeah, that’s right. I think it started from watching TV but then it started happening in real life. I used to watch peoples mouths. In my first psyche ward I used to freak out watching the staffs mouths.
Yeah, I know it’s weird and I got over it. But hell, at least I ain’t putting up a wall dividing the U.S. from Mexico for billions of dollars, denying global warming and cutting Social Security to the disabled. Now those are delusional.
I was under the delusion that our version of the CIA was programming birds to follow my activities. Played a game of golf and launched this 5 wood off the grass and hit this gawdamn duck fair in the chest. Didn’t I have a meltdown half way through this par 5 on the 9th hole. My friend couldn’t understand my horror!