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Originally Posted by newtus
what is a visual delusion?
or is this another way to say visual hallucination?
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I've never heard of a visual delusion. When I googled it, I mostly got the lyrics to a song with that title. They must mean visual hallucination.
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also, i can sense people that i know in real life (in reality), it feels like they are really there when they arent physically with me, so i talk to them. i do not see them but i could swear they are there. i believe they are watching me. i cant see them but they see me.
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My son had all of these ideas. People he knows in real life being present - even when they weren't. People communicating by put thoughts in his head. Communicating with others by sending them telepathic messages. Before he started the Zyprexa, he seemed to really believe it all. But sometimes I wonder if he didn't completely believe it, because he never talked about it. Kind of like he knew that other people wouldn't believe it. Or maybe that other people would deny believing it.
After he started taking the Zyprexa, for several months he'd still have these experiences, but he'd talk to me about them. Almost like he wasn't sure about the experience, and he wanted to check with me. Then they went away. Or at least he stopped talking about them.
It makes it difficult to communicate effectively with someone when they're assuming that people communicate by transferring thoughts back and forth telepathically. If you say something to them, they may make it fit in with some previous "conversation" you had with them that you never really have. You think they understand you, and they think you understand them, but in fact you've completely missed each other.
Not being able to communicate is very isolating. For people in psychosis, that leaves them without other people to reality test with, so they risk being drawn deeper into an imaginary world.
It sounds like you may have some doubts as to the reality of these experiences. If you do, I really think you should exploit that doubt. That is a healthy sign, a bit of sanity that you shouldn't suppress.