I have an experience with psychosis that may give you some more insight. I became manic and took myself off all my medications, including an anti-psychotic I didn't realize was an anti-psychotic. For the next two years, I lived in my own world, which interacted with others in an almost incoherent way. I would send email messages to people I hadn't seen in years, with "coded" meanings only I would understand. I believed the NSA was communicating through radio waves to my brain. When I watched television, I believed that the shows contained special secret messages intended for me. I believed that I was part of some royal holy bloodline, and that songs and albums were written about me entirely. I was obsessed with the idea that I was being tracked everywhere by satellites, and my house was bugged all the time. In bursts of creativity, I would perform several hours long one-man telethons for these bugs in my house, "broadcasting" myself doing "comedy acts" like playing characters who make fun of psychiatry. I told people I was working for NASA and the CIA. And last but not least, I was convinced the government controlled all the weather, including hurricanes.
Back on medicine again, now I go to school online, play Call of Duty, and chat with women. I don't have any thoughts about being bugged, even though I am a tech junkie and I know about Edward Snowden's leaks. Psychosis for me is all about a blended delusional reality, where you can go order a sandwich, and then rant at a telephone pole on your way home.
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