How can you tell if your grip on reality is intact or not?

Originally Posted by CassyO

How can you tell if your grip on reality is intact or not?

By your abilty to think about it logically. Respond v react

[Waterbear]

Tough question, what is reality? Are you OK?

Originally Posted by Waterbear

Tough question, what is reality? Are you OK?

I can't really explain it. It's just that sometimes I live in this most amazing, magical world which I love so so much. I think I'm surrounded by the most amazing people and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. But then I remember that's not my life, and I tell myself I'm imagining it all because good things don't happen to me. Magic isn't real, and people don't make an effort for me. It's like, after 40 years good things are happening and I can't trust that. Or I don't know whether to trust myself or what I'm seeing around me. I think if you're only ever used to derge, it's hard to trust that what is happening around me isn't just more derge and wishful thinking. I'm oscillating wildly between thinking I'm imagining everything, to believing that magic really does happen .

[Waterbear]

I don't know but it sounds confusing for you. I think I can understand when you have had a bad lot in life and then some good things happen then it can be hard to believe it to be true but it probably could be true and I think that if you try to shut it out because you don't trust it then you have no hope of having the good that might be there. Then you would be only back to where you were if it wasnt true, so what do you have to lose by believing and going with it? Not much. I am glad good things are happening for you and hope that you can sit back and enjoy them.

[junkDNA]

i ask my T for reality checks around delusions. if my T is not around or not available or im not able to ask him i ask whoever i am with. i will hear something and ask the person if they hear it as well. or if i am alone but my cat is around me ill look at him to see if he is reacting to what i hear. these are just things i do to manage my psychosis

or if i think T is mad at me i will ask him. but like if i think my boss is mad at me ill test the waters and go up to them and say something neutral and gauge it by their response/lack of

[Argonautomobile]

I ask my T, too. Reality is an exercise in consensus, in some ways.

But maybe the issue has less to do with what's real and more to do with your lack of trust in your own judgement? What would it take to trust yourself more?