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But I did not do this for fun or for attention. I was a screaming tortured mess on the inside and I was spinning out of control. When I went "catatonic" I most certainly was physically capable of moving, but I just wouldn't. I don't know why. I think this is true for most schizophrenics. They're not paralyzed.
For me judging myself, thinking that I wasn't "crazy" enough was just another layer of delusion. I have earned my stripes over the years.
Whatever the severity of your meltdown, you were still sick. I personally believe that arbitrary lies are a symptom of psychosis anyway, even in normal people. Especially ex-boyfriends....View Thread

I do know that being able to see that the things I was hearing and seeing were like dreams, like my mind was in a dreaming state when it was awake, and were not literally real or what they appeared to be, has really helped me to get some serious distance between me and the voices that made me crazy. I feel like once I stopped seeing them as being important, they had less power to distract me and the more troubling voices seemed to have gone away.
I keep an open mind spiritually and still believe there is an unknown reality to this dimension, but I consciously have decided to push them out of my head as is they were thoughts or day dreams. they're not as important as they think you are and its up to you to make sure you keep your mind occupied on other things and ignore them. Its not easy to push stuff like this aside, and resume life. But if you think of it as dreaming, you can see horrific things, re-live memories, see old friends, and then wake up and resume life. You can even become lucid and have some control over what happens. Hope this was of some help.View Thread

I frequently imagine myself blowing huge fake farts (ladies aren't suppose to make fart jokes, but we do) at them, or sarcastically telling them to f**k off. It took a long time, but for the most part they've learned that they cant really get to me, and are now in on it. Where they used to pop up and torture me now they just make wisecracks. Yes, I call them fairies.
Strange advice, for a strange world we live in.View Thread
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