Re: Fear of being delusional
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Ex :
- I walk in the street, I meet someone and suddenly the thought: "he's a spy" appears.
- I'm on facebook, the thought "he's talking about me" appears.
If this is the extent to your irrational thoughts, I think you're ok...
I think I've run people over when they cross behind my car (even when I'm going forwards) :unsure:
I murder people in my mind daily. I see death, carnage and destruction around every corner. I worry and catastrophise. It's what I do. And it used to freak me out thinking I must be some kind of deranged loon but then I realised that they're just thoughts, they're not reality.
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Do you think it's delusional or is it just simple anxiety ?
The kind of thoughts you're having re 'everybody talking about you' is a very common anxiety thought these days. The spy thing is a little funkier (depends on what you've been watching on tv) but you still have a long way to go before the peeps in the white suits come for ya. :winks:
Re: Fear of being delusional
Thanks for your reply Nora. Yes, these thoughts are the only ones that I find irrational and that frighten me. I noticed that they were always correlated to my main fear of the moment.
Yours don't look simple either. I've also been told that as long as you know they're irrational, there's nothing to worry about. But easy to say.
Thanks Nora