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Originally Posted by x123
Thanks, Steve. The problem with accepting these experiences as spiritual is that there is a package of experiences. Some of these experiences were inspiring and some of them imply things that I don't like to contemplate and some of them were confusing.
I started a thread today about concerns I have meeting a friend in a couple of weeks. Some of the experiences caused me to suspect my friend as part of a conspiracy to harm me. It is a long and convoluted story. Here is the more recent thread I started:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/schiz...psychosis.html
In some ways I want to believe I was imagining everything, because that is so much simpler, but it is hard for me to dismiss these experiences when I remember them so clearly and they seemed so real. |
Definitely you cannot accept anything as reality. Certain experiences can be accepted as "real" while others cannot at least in my life experiences. I can say that I have had paranoid, strange ideas that simply made little to no sense. The key is to know which things are basically positive beliefs and what things are negative. Of course, "positive" beliefs that are excessively grandiose (thinking your some kind of great figure, prophet or some sort, headed for fame, etc.)are not be good either because that can come across as very stereotypically "crazy". Otherwise, having positive beliefs are generally potentially beneficial. You could look at it like you have had a sort of religious awakening rather than psychosis.