No, if you are truly delusional, by the very definition of it, you don't know about it. Same with most forms of psychosis. Sometimes you can have hallucinations and know they are hallucinations, but sometimes not. But most full-out psychosis is way out there, and you don't know you are when you are that way. You think you can fly, you jump, etc.

I sort of did, for some of it. I was in someone else's house and there was a calendar on the wall. It had a bunch of things that I was supposed to do. I remember thinking "This is not real, because this person would not write things for me to do on their calendar."

It was a very definite hallucination. It was real to me, but I knew it couldn't be really there. Of course, I did not have a diagnosis, this was between my first and second breaks. If I had done that today, I would have just checked myself back into the psych ward.

For most of the rest of the delusions, I did not realize till after that it was all in my head. Esp. the grandiosity.

I did in hypomania.. but as HD has said in full blown mania people dont always know it... it is still horrible though even when it's a lesser degree..x

I recognized it later when i came down. I think in the throes of psychosis, you can't really tell you're psychotic, like HD said.

I had no clue at all. I thought it was an awakening..and kept rolling right along with it...til I came down. Then it took 2 months after that to see how psychotic I really was. During the mania, I had enough sense not to talk about my delusions ...esp the grandiose ones. That was why it took so long for anyone to know...until it got dangerous. I def thought I could fly. That's when I was caught...thank god!! But I didn't understand why wveryone was trying to stop me from my 'fun'.

So far, I know when I'm paranoid that it's 'just' me. But any times that I have been delusional, it was only in retrospect that I could see it.
But I will also say that since I've been diagnosed, I question myself a lot more and can sometimes see that it's my illness affecting my judgment and kind of catch myself and stop myself from being delusional.
Who knows?! Maybe I'm ALWAYS delusional and just don't know it!!!!!

i wouldn't know i was delusional if it hit me in the head....paranoid now that is a different thing. i never know for sure that i am being paranoid, but i suspect it and question my reactions before i act. that in itself usually tells me i am being paranoid.

I know when I am paranoid, but I still can't do anything to change it. i just have to wait for it to go away. Delusional or psychotic, I never know until after the fact.

sometimes when I am really paranoid I can get very delusional about whatever the issue is. And make up a whole situation and make myself more afraid. I will question it, like am I really afraid for nothing, this is all in my head, etc.

I am not sure if that is me recognizing it, or if it's just me trying to calm the paranoia because the questioning never changes the outcome. I still stay with whatever the problem is.

This really confuses me :|

Thanks for the replies and sharing your experiences. I'm trying to learn about it to understand my own experiences. Sometimes I feel like I get paranoid about certain people and realize it after I start obsessing. I was wondering if because I do this if I'm truly paranoid.

The delusional/psychotic thing....I've had a psychotic episode one time, I saw it written on a piece of paper BP1, psychotic episode, schizoeffective...and well I didn't ask about it at the time and have no idea what that was about...I don't have that pdoc anymore...but I was just wondering if I should have known looking back...

ah...this can be confusing . :/

For me it seemed like I was the last one to find out when psychotic or delusional.

delusions out of anything i have had would have been audio...i guess ish Thing sound angry at times hard to explain other then thing sound angry like compture fans r the one i notice the first fridge fans(happens every 3 or 4 months once for like at most an hour).. when it gets bad tv or people(but thats like maybe once in a blue moon when i forget to take my nite pill a few days in row)
nothing bad or i can't handle i know what happening and how to deal with it...its how my body deals with wayyy to much stress or when i forget my meds..and paranoia shit I alway know!! or i alway toss it up to im being paranoid thats mainly with health stuff tho once n awhile its to do with people thinking badly of me but the thought rite after is who care ur being paranoid rock it babe girl! and i do lol

I'm sorry but I didn't read everyones replies, so im sorry if i repeate anything. When i get delusional and hallucinate I dont know that it isn't real. I start out getting paranoid and then I start to get delusional and I start hearing and seeing things. To me at the time they seem really real. When I am out of my manic state I can look back and say there was nothing there and it wasnt real. But the next time I slip into that paranoid mania It is as real as it was the first time, and there is no telling myself that it isnt real.

All the above. Most of the time after I calm down I realize or think that I may have been delusional and or paranoid. Only because that has happened so often and I am usually guilty of being that way.

I dont realize when im delusional, hallucinate, or paranoid. I have to be told,. about it later.

I definitely realize it later, but I'm getting better at it.