How to Deal with People Messing with You during Psychosis
Hi, so I have delusional thinking and psychosis related to topic involving the federal government (specifically the FBI & CIA) harassing me despite their being very little if not no evidence that this is happening. It has cost me multiple jobs, I’m homeless now and essentially destroyed my life. I can’t get anything done without thinking that they’re surveillance me, mocking me, and negating any effort I put into anything.
Yesterday, I went to a park to watch fire works from a distance. About 2 minutes after I got there, an acquaintance that I knew like 6 years ago showed up, and we recognized each other and briefly caught up. When he asked how I’d been, I explained that things were pretty bad because I have Schizoaffective disorder and can’t seem to manage it.
He then tells me that he’s been working with the federal government in covert international operations, and repeatedly hints at recruiting me for something. When I asked him what the government wanted me for/to do, but he refused to give a direct answer.
And I spent the rest of the night convinced that he was sincere and that I wasn’t psychotic after all while wearing a bulletproof vest and taping aluminum foil to the inside of my hat. It took multiple attempts by others to get me to understand that that guy was probably messing with me.
Is this something that people do to people who are psychotic? And if so, why? How do y’all manage this? And also what the hell?! I’ve been nothing but desperately friendly to this guy, and I like, honestly, I’d prefer if he had just beat me up or something because what he did to my brain will probably take months to repair.
I feel like an idiot who literally can never be a functional person ever again.