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Old Aug 17, 2012, 07:32 AM
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As I said, my son's issues are different, and that's even harder to try to imagine. Paranoia. The idea that others are putting thoughts in his head. The idea that others are hearing his thoughts.
I don't see myself as schizophrenic, though there have been some similarities. But the thing about someone putting thoughts in your head, or can tell what you are thinking -- I can see that. It's easy: just an extension of childhood, where your mother seemed to know everything you thought, and even wanted to control what you thought. In fact my mother did want to control what I thought. I do think that people can, in principal and in practice to a large extent, have a pretty good idea what (some) other people are thinking. Sometimes, though, we can be very mistaken about it.
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