Thank You Kimberly,

Thank you for sharing with me your side of this. I too have strange beliefs, that seem weird or not possible.

Part of my treatment since I live alone is my Case Manager who comes here to assess me twice a week and make sure things are ok.

I normally openly express my beliefs and concern such as paranoia, she is the link between determining to what degree I am functioning and by observation and talk know if I need a medication evaluation appointment move up to a sooner date or if things can wait.

My most recent bothersome problem was this lamp and it was sitting on a big stand in my living room, only I felt it was sending negative energy and bad luck which I still believe it was. So finally I decided that possible if I move the lamp to a different location then this bad luck and negativity twards me and my apartment would cease.

I have moved the lamp to another location and seems true it was not the lamp itself, only the location of the lamp. I feel this has much improved the situation and now do not have that feeling about the lamp and it's former location, where I believe need never to have a lamp on that stand agian. So by doing this I was able to take a distressful situation through coping and remove it from the list of things that trouble me.

For me other psychotic things I seem to tolerate would be that of a Tactile type of Hallucinations. When I am extreemly anxious and such, I feel the 'bugs" crawling or landing on me. At times it can be bothersome. The other is at times I feel drops of water landing on my arm and am indoors and there is no water coming from anywhere. Because just as soon as I go to look up and no water dripping then touch my arm where I felt the drop of water and it is not there.

One other hallucination I did not even know exsisted was the 'Smell' type of hallucination. Do not have much of that since they increased the Risperdal. Only one time I was smelling meatloaf outdoors, baking cookies, popcorn, all kinds of smells so I told the Pdoc.

Sorry that I think I got out in left field somewhere here. Just wanted to say thank you for your nice and kind reply

Take Care-Chris