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Any tips for dealing with paranoia ?
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Originally posted by AlexKid View PostIm surprised so many people are so lame so selfish so crappy so negative, such takers/downers , but I guess I should be happy that I am not one of them, but wow ALOT of people like that exist, and they spend their whole lives like it, its fcuking redonkulous
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Originally posted by billeau2 View PostSo you have a mental issue and are looking for a "course?" that makes no sense, but ok...
You want a tip? when I was a mental health worker, we dealt with everything on my unit, from depression, Schizophrenia, border line, psychosis of all types...
Here is what you do: verify. So, if you think person A is out to get you, take a step back and use your logical brain to show that it probably is not so. So when a lot of schizophrenics are having problems they are taught to vocalize what is happening to them...same thing really. schizophrenic a might say 'I hear voices telling me to kill you cause you are the devil." Then gradually we can establish that they are just voices.
if you think it through, past any racing thoughts, you will soon see that people are doing things for reasons that have nothing to do with you. What good is it to them to go after you? Logically? If you think it through you will discover that people are concerned with work, their health, how they look to others, and not trying to make plans to affect your life.
Anyways long story short that was pretty much what it boiled down to, once the worse of the intensity died down after a coupla days and I was capable of thinking at all, beyond simply walking the fuck away from the town where I was at the time and getting the hell away from any and all people (walked for two days solid, robbed Whisky from a deserted bar, slept under hedges, tumbleweed blowing through my brain)... Just started talking to myself, telling myself what I would have believed before those experiences, asking myself if I would think like that normally and so on... I couldn't disprove it because the specific architecture of the delusion was internally coherent but over time and repetition I started to accept that even if it was real it didn't seem to be directly impacting on my life any more...
IDK. I been in a few genuine life threatening situations but I never had any other terror like that... well not til I had kids, but that's another story. In the end though I returned to something like normal within not too long (though I had a morbid fear of insomnia that stayed with me for over a decade) and I credit it largely with the fact that I was already so used to altered states of conciousness that I'd somehow lost the mental rigidity that can cause folks minds to permanently fracture... who knows though, just lucky probably.Last edited by Citizen Koba; 02-03-2020, 04:18 PM.
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