I thought it was just me that thought those things!

I try to focus on what I know is true. Once I start thinking about that things start to make sense again.

Like...
I am Jessica.
I am breathing.
I am alive.
I see no one.
No one is here.
I am schiz so my mind is tricking me.

Do you believe that you are dead just now? Have you had a near death experience NDE? Do you see entities?

I go through the same thing on a daily basis. I have voices talking in my mind and I feel people watching me. I even think there in my brain. Don't get discouraged if sometimes you believe them. I do it all the time. From one fighter to another

once you have a diagnosis this should help you moreso to know what reality is.... but reality is also what we choose to believe - so what would you rather believe?? my mum used to tell me she could read my mind etc. or had these magical powers - and NO joking there she meant it. so i grew up with these little nagging thoughts in my head that everyone could hear me. but yno what i think you are on a step to recovery by asking advice because it means you are indeed questioning your illness so therefore getting better in some ways. good luck

i used to think that there were cameras watching me all the time.but since i have been taking my medication that went away....

There's so much good advice on here you don't need me but yeah, I think people know my thoughts too. It makes it hard to have a conversation, I find.

Thank you all, for you thoughts to this, it is very appreciated, vicky

I always hear things when i am taking my meds and it just dullls it out a bit. Lately i stopped taking meds due to pregnancy and relised it was bad spirits. They try to send you mad my flashes, voices, whispering in our ears and stuff generaly tormenting you. I think its a spiritual breakdown that i was having a few weeks ago not a mental one. I begged The Almighty to save me and lift me out of my torment. I rang my Homeapath and carried on taking my hearbal medicine (and meds for a while) and Prayed And Prayed. They know your fears and use them against you. I believe bed spirits to be the Devil and if you put your whole heart , whole sole, whole minds into accepting Gods help then he will lift you out of it. Confort you, strengthen your mind, Heal you etc. I have been reading the Bibel alot lately because i was advised to by my Homeapath and he told me i was not going mad because i was far too aware of everything that was going on around me. I ralised that i was having withdrawal from meds (am pregnant, being presured to take meds from psych and Nurse) so i told nurse to leave me the hell alone nicely and thanked her for her great support , was thinking sarcastically)I think i am paranoid thats a fact but i also think i am too aware to intouch with myself people. I have been trying very hard to focus on positive things and trust Whole Heartedly in God and feel alot better. Satan is called the whisperer and this is self exsplanatory.

GOOD LUCK

I also suffer from paranohia from marahuana use in earlier life but i know that i am being tormented on a daily basis. It gets better.

i get this all the time too, has been happening for a few years...

i find a good way to "come back to reality":

deep breaths (google yoga), basically controlled breathing.

with each breath, count one inside your head.

or try starting at ten and counting down to 1.

another thing to do, take a break to the toilet and just sit locked in there for a while. carry out some controlled breathing and you will be find as possible on return.

my therapist told me to focus on the here and now. it's hard to do that when i have these paranoid feelings that someone is watching me and plotting on me. i feel like THAT is my here and now. it's hard but it's good advice so i hope it helps you a little.

I believe that people are talking about me, no one likes me, and that no one believes anything that I say.

I worry that people can hear my thoughts, and all kinds of things.

One day I went to an antique store and I bought a book that just charmed me for some reason, and I bought it worrying that the others in the store could hear me thinking.

After I came home, a few weeks later, I read a lot of the book of poetry, and it is my favorite now. I memorize long passages of poetry from this book and recite them to put up walls and put my thoughts in order.

I recommend this highly. It has helped me tremendously.

Go into a shop and buy something like a piece of jewelry and tell yourself that it puts up a feild of somekind that keeps others from reading your thoughts or something like that.

I reason that if the fear is irrationional, the solution doesn't have to make sense to anyone but me.