If you’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia, what keeps you believing in your “delusions” or things others consider to be delusional or insane?
I’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but I don’t really believe I’m schizophrenic, and I still persist in believing I’m involved in psychic events. One reason I believe in these “delusions” is I’ve experienced some very weird and very real things that I just can’t explain otherwise. For example, one of my voices does things to my soul that really feel like the work of a magical intelligence.
What keeps you believing in things (such as conspiracies or plots against you) others consider to be delusions, instead of just thinking you’re schizophrenic?
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My name starts with j, my birth was a miracle, I’m Jewish, the sequence of events in my life…makes me believe im Jesus
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I used to have alien abduction experiences but now that I am medicated for some reason aliens aren’t as interested in me. But, I know they exist and will intercede before we destroy the Earth.
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I believe The Greys are god and they are male and female. One of them told me they are called Jehovah.
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My beliefs are almost all supported by the Catholic Church, 
So, continuing to believe in much of what I always have is simply observing a faith that millions of others share. What most others don’t share is the literal presence of a guardian angel whom I can see, feel and hear. They also may not be simultaneously protected and berated/persecuted by their angel. Demons may or may not lurk and slither around them… I believe in all of these things because everything is right here. Understanding the actual source of these things is important. I know that the extreme manifestations of my faith are due to my having sz. My faith and beliefs don’t need to be effected as long as I understand where to draw the line, when I can, and to not let cross that line and upset the balance that I’ve attained.
Angels are The Golden People and come from the Pleiades star system. I feel angels around me protecting me from demons.
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If I could change my delusions than I would. Some are just bad habits or too firmly entrenched over time. Some are harmless. Sometimes you can’t reason your way out of false beliefs, that’s why they call them delusions.
I still get an occasional persisting delusion.
Sometimes I get like an influx of information either in the form of voices or flight of ideas/information.
I still feel like it could be some revolutionary knowledge and that the world is communicated it to me in this way.
The other week It happened and I typed it out as it was being spoken to me.
But then I remembered that this has happened several times before and only leads to me listening to command voices.
It’s a tough one to shake off. But I ignore it the best i can.
To answer your question its because Im schizophrenic, but ive being called delusional very rarely , you wouldnt even know I had this sickness if you met me.
I guess I continue to believe because it is other people who call them delusions. Not me.
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I have ‘unusual beliefs’, but they’re just in the background now since getting on the right meds. They persist because I can’t explain some of them away.
I could dismiss all the things others refer to as my ‘delusions’ if others would just stop doing things that confirm the delusions were in fact, based in the ‘reality’ that they strive so hard to pass off as delusional.
I read this thread over the past day or so.
I notice that I truly believe my delusions. When I started to think about them, I realized they not only contradict the real world, but also contradict each other. Yet these are my deeply held beliefs and seem like the best expressions and explanations of my experiences. Plus, they are right there, precepts. Before conscious thought.
The only unusual beliefs I call delusions are the harmful ones that make life much worse if I enter them, which is always by accident. Most of the time I have perspective about my beliefs and do not try to explain them to others or act on them.
The mental illness framework does not contain or explain my life experiences. My beliefs make sense. Still, I would like never to enter the worst delusional states again.
But I am middle aged and have read that delusions become “fixed” after some time (decade or two) of experiencing them.
my name is christy and I have an upside down cross birth mark. I feel that the name of Christ, is just what it is, adding a y to the end? no longer Christ. I feel like I’m the antichrist.
comfort im so isolated my mind is constantly talking-thinking i have a system to help me make up my mind
Lots of delusions have a grain of truth in them. I’m not encouraging delusional behaviour or delusional thinking but when I look back on many delusions I have had, I can see why I thought them.
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I believe that God talks to me every day in Lectio Divina prayer. He speaks to my thoughts, feelings, actions, words, etc…etc…and very personally to me alone. He guides, comforts, chastises, corrects, humors, etc…etc…in his conversations with me. We interact back and forth with each other. My doctors say that I am mistaken and that this is not God. I don’t agree with them. I say it is God. I don’t care if it means I am schizophrenic. I am not abandoning my God. No way!