Schizophrenia Support Group

can you please elaborate on how you feel you are an alien?

People that ACTUALLY believe they are an alien are suffering from a delusion, which is one symptom of schizophrenia. However, you just kind of got rid of the notion that you are suffering from a delusion by using the word "THINK". This implies that you know you are not. I could be wrong though, but usually when people are suffering from a delusion they do not say "I think people are after me" (for example). Instead they say "people are after me" and hide and act as though they believe it, not just that they think they believe it. I know that sounds kind of complex, but there is a mild difference, at least in my experience.

thanks you 2 for your replies

i do believe i am an alien, but a part of me is aware that the notion of one thinking that they are an alien is a very strange way to think.... i also believe that i suffer from dissosiate idenity disorder, and most of them agree that i am not human, which only compounds my feelings

on how i feel like an alien;
for over ten years now i've thought believed myself to not be human, but infact a human / alien hybrid.... i was born on earth to human parents, and as i have grown up and developed, more and more so has the alien part of me.... the reason that no one can see the alien components within me is because the alein part of me is technorganic, and my alein part of me is from a highly developed spieces that wish to study human behaviours from a distance, as we believe humans to be a very dangerous race

I am curious , do you feel people think you are different and treat you differently like you dont fit in? How does it feel when you suspect you are a Alien? Do you even suspect you are an alien because you feel you have no emotions or is it because you feel alienated? Take care Reednotred and good luck in your search of yourself :)

thanks again everyone for taking the time to read this and offer your advice and support

I've never met anyone who has thought I was an alien, and I've never really told anyone either. I try to keep it to myself, as I'm sure if I ran around town saying I was an alien, I'd be locked up. I don't feel alienated in any way, I just feel that I am not like anyone else. Not in the way that were all unqiue people, but in a way that runs deeper than that. I have emotions, but I have learned to control them, and only let them out when the time is needed.

Have you ever talked to a psychologist about this?

no, i've never talked about it, i'm afriad to in ways, as i've been trying to say it for years, but i cant get the words out of my mouth

There is a book by Oliver Sachs called, "An Anthropologist on Mars".

The title is taken from a self-description from a woman who has Asperger's Syndrome ... in explaining how she relates to other people she says she feels like she is an anthropologist on Mars.

She is high functioning and aware that she is different, but she the way she expresses how she feels about being a high functioning person with Asperger's is interesting and your question reminded me of that.

I looked up that book, and its looks like a great read... i'm in the process of ordering it, thanks so much for the reccomendation!
:)