So many incidents, so little time.
I'm a "functioning mentalist", as I think that we may have established through some of my previous posts on this here website.

One of the symptoms of my (now-under-control) mentalism is that I have in the distant past been delusional. It doesn't affect me now but it did when I was younger and a student and I would believe any number of seriously, seriously embarrassing things and some other more dangerous things.

I have precisely no conscious recollection of these but the few close friends that I have retained from the time have told me that:

1. For about a month, I was convinced that I was a Yorkshireman and wandered around wearing a flat cap that I'd picked up from *somewhere* and using a frankly disturbingly life-like Yorkshire accent

2. Believed that I was an undergraduate history student (when was a post-doc) and would go sit in on lectures before the university medical team identified this and pulled me out of the lecture halls

3. Convinced myself that, for a short amount of time (measurable in minutes, thankfully) that I could *fly* - and, having climbed onto the tower - was sectioned and spent some time in a locked ward

I've now managed to ensure myself that the world is not an illusion, that I exist within it (etc...) and that as a consequence of the prescription meds I'm taking daily that I am in fact well.

Let the pelting with fruit and the stigma of teh interwebs begin.

Peace and love, y'all.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 6:59, 6 replies)

A true crazy mathematician
Trouble is, the world may very well be an illusion, though it must be said that there is absolutely no evidence that that is the case so you would be absolutely bonkers(1) to think so.

(1) For some values of absolutely.
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 8:26, closed)

We all love a nutter.
I wouldn't worry.
( girlinthehole, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 9:22, closed)

*click*
for always having a good story to tell.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 9:23, closed)

It doesn't affect you now?
That's what you believe, anyway...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 9:41, closed)

^
Thank you all for your kind messages.

and Enzyme, part of the reason that I'm never in love is that to ensure that I'm still getting better I need independent third-party confirmation.

This can come in the form of anything from being able to put my hand down and touch the ground(!) to jumping in a swimming pool to make sure that water remains wet.

Wibble. Ahem.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 10:08, closed)

I've been delusional in different ways
got put on meds 8 years ago but in the last few years my sense of reality has become increasingly fucked. Definitely identify with focusing on sensory input to validate "reality".
(lost, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 14:35, closed)