Hi Firebird,
The reason i asked about sleep is because when sleep goes away,
like it did with me, manic energy replaced it. I went w/o sleep
for many nights and thought nothing of it. Big mistake.
With help from the p-doc(the only help) I got more sleep and the delusion
lost steam. Less sleep=more mania. More sleep=less mania & less time in delusion.
As the mania ran out it was replaced by paranoia.
Less mania=more paranoia.

Lack of sleep, for me, was more than annoying.
Towards the end my mind was turning against itself
to the point where I almost scared myself to death.
The scenarios kept shifting and each one was more
hopeless than the last. It was just me tricking myself
into killing myself.

Can a person in delusion be tricked or guided out safely?
I think in rare cases it can happen. But it's close to
impossible.