I get many delusions every day. I know they aren’t real, but the coincidences are just too big. I mean VERY big. Why are they so realistic?
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Maybe it’s more to do with how tentative reality is itself.
Everybody’s experience is so unique
This opens the door to interpretation, and I think our minds just get carried away with picking holes in things that are convention for others - which is taken for granted
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I’ve experienced things that I know are absurd, yet even knowing they are absurd that part of my brain that believed them to be true has broken off and is over there trying to find reasons that it’s true. I can’t shake it because to me it was real.
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I still have an overarching delusion that I know is a delusion but it still gets my attention every day. I’m just careful not to fall down that hole or do research on the topic. It doesn’t help that it religious in nature and at group 95% of people there are very devout. So at times there, it will pull at me.
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İ think problem on delusion is not idea itself, problem is following algoritm set of that delusional idea trigger.for example if your delusion is “ufos are real”, problem is not exactly to ufos itself rather than other chain ideas set that delusion trigger and most of the medicine are effective on broke that idea chain set and able to not believe them.in my case i have still delusional thoughts but i don t believe them at all with meds.and when you not believe them on them they are silently dissapear.
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They aren’t, but psychosis alters our thought processes and senses to make them SEEM very real.
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Yesterday again tv said the word gift
when i was thinking about a gift.
It happens everyday. It’s crazy.
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I like that concept.
If I’m not mistaken I take it that means our sort of temporary conception of reality when things are unsure or were still figuring it out?
I think the “what if” gets a hold of my temporary concept of reality or imagination perhaps often.
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At least you have insight into them.
When I became psychotic in 2016 I had ZERO insight into my delusions
It was fuc*ing scary as hell!
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I was just hospitalized twice, back to back, for acting out on my delusions. The worst I have ever been since my first episode in 2015. Lot’s of bad things happened. Too much to list, I am now on a combo of Lithium and Zyprexa and I feel good on it. That’s crazy, right? To feel good on meds? I just need to remember to take them.
In the past I was very against any kind of drug that takes away or dulls the delusions. Since last year I’ve been on Abilify and it has been a life changer. It’s not perfect, but works well enough that I’m not drawn into my delusions as much. Though, I seem to not be drawn into anything as much to be honest. Life seems dull and now all I have to worry about are normal things (mostly money).
I still wonder about some delusions I’ve had, and as new ones pop up they quickly get pushed to the back of my mind unless it has a sense of urgency to it. For instance, I was talking to my father through text message the other day and all of the sudden I got the idea that it wasn’t him texting back, but a hacker. I thought his phone got hacked (or mine did) and they could see me through the front camera. Ultimately I texted a few things only he could answer and that was enough to calm me down. But it was a very familiar feeling having this happen. It just took me over and pumped me full of so much adrenaline that I couldn’t push the thought away. It was urgent.
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anything can make a schizophrenic delusional beliefs if they are psychotic…you must be very close to full blown psychosis and then you won’t doubt your beliefs. this is very serious…please contact your psychiatrist and let them know so maybe med change or uppage could help you.
I know they are delusions and I question them. I’m going to my psychiatrist tomorrow as a matter of fact. I just notice these coincidences but I tend to shove them off
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Well my “sister” delusion was based on the fact my Dad had cheated on my Mom. Once the voices took over they changed the story dramatically which turned out to be really far out. I blame that on my creativity being twisted by the onset of schizophrenia. In other words there was some 'fact" behind the delusion which is maybe why I held on to it for a long time.
I cant shake the thought for more than a few days that my psychiatrist isnt trying to help me. Nope, hes actually a scientologist that infiltrated the psychiatric industry. He’s tried hard to influence my mind and convince me that i need to kill myself. He’s even done this from a distance. Sometimes i dont believe this and other times i just think about how possible this could be. I’ve actually told him this before and I’m very uneasy with the thought of an AP increase and i don’t trust him or any psychiatrist anymore. I’m a working professional in my mid 40s and the cognitive side effects are making it difficult to work. What do i do with this? I want to fire him and distance myself and hope my cognition comes back. I’ve had mental health issues and paranoia and mood episodes since my 20s but it wasnt until i quit smoking and got the Moderna vaccine that this all got bad.
quitting smoking has raised my awareness and increased my anxiety
im worried about my heart–I am suddenly allergic to caffeine and I have sympathetic reactions to other people’s behaviors my PCP said I was having sympathetic anxiety that was causing the dizzy spells but idk
what your seeing is not real
what you call considences are not
they may not even exist like hallucinations and voices
so calm down and tell your doctor about what happening to you
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