Why can’t we figure out what is delusional early on…. I am saying that why can’t we figure out what is the truth…… before we get completely delusional. If we didn’t hear voices we wouldn’t get delusional. It doesn’t mean we are less smart, when we get delusional. For some reason we get delusional…… If a person without sz heard voices then would they get delusional too. Why do we fall for it…. I mean why do we get delusional with hearing voices. Do we have bad judgment calls? I have been trying to figure this out. Does it mean we have bad judgment calls. Because we are chemically imbalanced?
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I think we spend our whole lives searching for the truth.
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I think its the chemistry of schizophrenia, certain overactive chemical cause neural fusions in synapses that later manifest as fixed beliefs or realities
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You can with practice. I figure from SZ is like recovering from a brain injury (which I have done). You can get function back with hard work.
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It takes a lot of work. And a lot of being hypervigilant about strange or atypical ideas.
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It’s a bad sign if anything involving aliens rolls through my head, that’s for darn sure.
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I have heard before that many people with schizophrenia have problems with analytical thinking. How much this is true or how prevalent it is in the population overall , I dont know.
If this were true of everyone, why would medications go such a long way to helping you overcome delusions? I mean, I’m sure they don’t change you logical thinking. IDK.
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you can enter remission of symptoms and feel normal everyday
Maybe when a person goes insane it affects their judgement calls? There is different levels of being insane.
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Yes, when people are in psychosis, I’m quite sure they have a harder time making “judgement calls”. What I was trying to awkwardly say, is that, if it those people are inherently less analytically competent, why are many just fine on medications? If they had no analytical ability in the first place, why would medications restore their ablilities?
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I have never felt normal and it started when I was a small kid. You don’t need to have SZ to feel like a square peg in a world of round holes.
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Nice new profile image! 
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you dont have to hear voices to get delusional. some people with sz hear no voices.
idk how to prevent delusions and paranoia tho.
I don’t hear voices and I deal with delusions albeit mild ones.
There are people without schizophrenia who hear voices. As far as I know they don’t deal with delusions.
I think so. I think as treatments improve, specifically treatments that target cognition we’ll see more people like @shutterbug who are able to navigate through their voices and delusions. I think bad cognition is why CBT is so ineffective for many of us.
When I was delusional I didn’t want other people to tell me I was deceiving myself, because I knew the “Trueth.” My delusions made my life much more interesting, but then they got scary, and my life started to fall apart. I had an NA sponsor who once told me that a person could be “not on the beam, and not know they weren’t on the beam, because they weren’t on the beam”. The way I looked at it was that I was on the beam and everyone else was trying to push me off.
Thanks man 
Its a cross between a turtle, an egg and a potato on a beach with a sombrero 
It is because if the experiences are strange enough, we make sense of them in stranger ways.
A delusion is a belief
When I go against my belief I feel wrong
Then concern becomes a issue. How much do I care about my belief. The more I care about my belief the more my mind focuses on it. I ask myself why doesn’t others caring about their beliefs make them delusional. I find when my medication kicks in I can function free from belief. I can do tasks and learn and enjoy myself free from belief. My delusions completely took over my belief system. I could not believe anything other then my delusions.With medication I could control my belief and form normal beliefs. My normal beliefs are ones that I am in control of with my reasoning. A delusion overrides all my reasoning and stop’s it. With a delusion for me it is all feelings which put a limit on or stop to my reasoning.
thats interesting. someone told me the other day they could chose to believe whatever they wanted and i thought that was weird. is that how its supposed to be? i always thought beliefs were formed by other stuff and i told them i cant chose to believe something i dont believe. but i also cant chose not to believe stuff i believe. is that how its supposed to be?
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I believe I should be in control of all my beliefs. I personally would like to be able to change my beliefs according to what I need to achieve.
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