Things I say or do that people make people think I'm strange

People think I'm strange in general. For various reasons.

I unplug things because I'm worried that the device will turn back on and explode/catch fire. I really think this is possible, but people tell me otherwise. I think the dryer or oven will explode all the time. This is why I don't like cooking because I'm worried about fires and explosions.

I don't like it when people leave drinks out too long because I know that something will grow in it like mold. It's hard for me to drink sodas now because I think mold is going to grow inside me.

I feel like the hospitals are hiding a serious condition from me because I don't have insurance. I believe that the behavioral health hospital was trying to kill me by over medicating me. I refuse to go back. I'll just wait for the doctor. Sometimes I think he's trying to kill me as well. I feel like this medicine is deteriorating my brain. I'm scared I'm going to die in my sleep.

The 'voices' I hear...I believe the dead is trying to communicate with me or they are 'past' voices that has been said in the place I'm at.

When I was working, I always thought they were plotting ways to fire me. So I went ahead and quit. I know that there are people always watching me. I'm glad I'm not around people like I was at work. I know I was being stalked.

I have this strong urge to try to pick up the yellow parking thing (if y'all know what I mean) because it looks like I could move it.

I think there are people that want me dead, so they can take my money.

Sorry. I needed to share. People think I'm strange when I talk to them.

I think most of the time people just don't know what to say, because it can be an ethical no-win situation.

If they argue with you about your beliefs, they could make you feel invalidated, paranoid, angry or otherwise upset. I think it's sort of cruel to argue with a delusional person when they can't help their beliefs. It's along the same lines as arguing with someone with dementia about whether or not their parents are still alive when you know their parents are dead. When I worked as a caregiver in a memory care facility, I never 'corrected' a resident's false beliefs, ever. It would have been pointless and cruel.

On the other hand, if they 'play along' with your delusions, that is also unethical. They would just be feeding into your paranoia and making it harder for you to work through your symptoms. You would wind up with all of these confusing memories where people seemed to agree with you, which could also even make you feel more paranoid towards mental health professionals and thwart your management efforts.

So, I think a lot of people feel awkward and nervous, unsure of what the "right" thing to do/say would be, and I think it can be easy to interpret this as, "They obviously think I'm a freak." In most cases I think they just want to do and say the right thing, but the right things to do and say are not always clear. So they can have body language and facial expressions that indicate they are having an uncomfortable reaction.

Speaking of feeding into paranoia, my cousin did that to me and I ended up in the hospital. I still think it was real that a demon possessed me.

If you don't mind me asking, and for sure you can tell me to feck off if this is too personal, but do you mind me asking what your diagnosis is? You mentioned behavioural hospital and I'm just curious. Sorry again if that's too personal.

My doctor says it's Multidimesionally impaired disorder. In the computer, my dx is something like Psychosis NOS because he can't technically dx me Multidimesionally impaired because it's not in the DSM. But he said it fits perfectly.

"Multidimensionally impaired disorder (not a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition [DSM-IV] diagnosis), characterized by emotional lability, distractibility, poor social skills, brief hallucinations, and trouble distinguishing fact from fiction"

I don't mind you asking, but it's really confusing.

I work with people with dementia right now too, and I can totally relate to what was said above. Countering people's delusions that their parents are still alive or that they're at a resort, or that their spouse is still alive or things like that seem ethical to me because as long as the delusion is kept up it keeps them in a happy place. Where the ethical area starts getting grey as far as lying goes is when lying to them/feeding their delusions can become upsetting or harmful to them. Like one lady I work with sometimes thinks she's in a hospital and that she's going to die from the flu which everyone there has. I know I shouldn't feed that delusion, but it's still hard to tell her she's not where she thinks she is and what she thinks is going on is simply not true. Sometimes redirection is the best tactic. If you can change the subject to something like happy memories, or their family or something they like then they sometimes forget about their delusion long enough for their memory to reset and then they forget about their mentally destructive delusion. I wonder if something similar can be done with people with delusions. Some kind of grounding/redirection tactic to get them back to a place where they feel safe but also grounded in reality. I know it's hard because delusions suck you in and don't let you go. They want you to focus on them not on something else. But I've learned how to deal with it in elderly people with dementia so I feel like it's possible for other people too.

I can't comment on it as I don't know anything about it. I am going to do a bit of google research on it, it sounds fascinating.

What you should do first off is to stop externalising your conditon to everybody you encounter. It seems to me you are very desperate and tend to display that everywhere you go. Being desperate is just normal if you feel like it, however you ve got to grow stronger and keep your feelings and urges to yourself.

If it is not your consulting physician or a close friend or relative you feel comfortable confiding to, try to refrain showing off your distress in public. That is the first step to healing. Then you can start seeking further solutions through medication and psychotherapy etc...
Good luck and be strong.

people think im strange when I talk to them to. ive learned to shrug it off for the most part. I do some of the same things you do and have some of the same fears. like people wanting me dead and people wanting to fire me when I did have a job. and the voices thing. even though I also technically think my voices are of government descent too technically though. and from god and spirits/demonic. not just the dead.

I don't think the person needs to strive to internalized or push things down. That sounds unhealthy to me not like healing.