Or lets take my depression as an example. This is how it happens. One day a switch goes off in my brain and I go into a horrible deep suicidal depression. How long it lasts varies. I can hardly get out of bed and sleep a lot and so on and so on....all the symptoms.

Now do I have any control over that switch? Is it a choice, and I choose to be depressed? Or do I have a choice over how long it lasts? I will tell you no way in hell do I have a choice in the matter. I can write you a book on everything I have done to treat it, yet the switch still gets thrown. I have a life time of this happening and have never been able to choose or think my way out of it.

Do you have any control over paranoid thoughts that pop into your head. Is it a choice? Can you just choose for them to got away and they do? I doubt it is that simple.