XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:42:29 -0400, ansaman  wrote:   
      
   >On 6/22/2021 4:37 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:28:02 -0400, ansaman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 6/22/2021 1:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>> Understand that it must be a difficult thing to accept about yourself.   
   >>>> The unafflicted have no idea, so let us not judge harshly.  The wish   
   >>>> is to always find a way to believe in what they experience.   
   >>>> Interaction with other schizophrenics helps with that.   
   >>>   
   >>> There was a time in my life that I was under extreme   
   >>> stress and fatigue and I really believed that people   
   >>> were out to get me.   
   >>>   
   >>> When they threw me a birthday party, I ran from the   
   >>> room crying uncontrollably.   
   >>   
   >> Which is paranoia.  Not the same thing.   
   >   
   >Yes, but I believed in something that was not real.   
      
   But you did not see a vision.  Paranoid people don't see those.   
   Visions are diagnostic of schizophrenia.  One of the things that is   
   diagnostic.   
      
   However, if you did not also have delusions of grandeur, you were not   
   paranoid, you were simply tired and stressed.   
      
   Noah Sombrero   
      
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