I’m really scared I have / I’m experiencing psychosis. The symptoms link heavily with my solipsism related thoughts. But then I think ‘no, psychosis is just made up and fake, like everything else’ which distresses me too. I don’t even know if you guys are real. Please help!

Hi Eden! I would like to interject here, I know I am very much real. I believe you are real. I used to struggle with solipsism OCD too, it won’t get you anywhere. Stop googling, stop looking for answers, it’s irrefutable but that DOES NOT make it true. Almost every philosopher dismisses the idea because it just doesn’t make sense. Humans are built to be social creatures. Just because you cannot prove something wrong does not make it true. If I was a solipsist, how could you be? And vice versa. There cannot be two solipsists. There’s an entire community of people who believe in this false and no offense, stupid, idea. I am real, you are real. We have OCD, anxiety, and intense fear of loneliness. You will be okay, this theme will pass as it has with me. It’s really not worth all the mental energy you’re putting into it. I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you for that. I guess I just wonder if other people who CLAIM to be solipsist are just lying. Well not LYING, but they’re just apart of this simulation and they’re fake so blah blah blah. Idk. But I appreciate you taking the time to write all that! I hope I feel better soon too :(

Psychosis is real. It’s a legitimate disorder. Having said that, the delusions and hallucinations produced aren’t. But, to a person with it? They are. Do you have access to healthcare?

Do not check on the internet. I have done it many many times, and thought I had terrible diseases like MS, cancer, and disorders like schizophrenia and also Psychosis. Internet is a very dangerous thing, bc you're making yourself upset. If you really have hallucinations and other stuff go seek help, but do not self diagnose yourself. Hope this will help you to feel a bit calmer..

At the root of this is the fact that I don’t believe anything is real. My solipsism ocd has been bad. But I don’t even believe ocd is real, I think of it as something that’s been made up to excuse the fact that I’m ‘cracking the system’ or whatever. I literally sound crazy. It’s all intrusive. My point is, I don’t know what is and isn’t legitimate. I guess deep down I do. Or deep down I know what I HOPE is real. But accepting the uncertainty is so so so so hard. So when it comes to this, or ocd, or anxiety is general, my brain just says none if that is real. The ‘simulation’ made it up for me. Ahhhh I don’t even know anymore.

Once again, do you have access to help? Because if this has been going on for a while and been debilitating you, you should get help.

I’m trying. I live in the UK so it can take a while for free access under the NHS. Sometimes I wonder if help is just another way to stop me finding stuff out. I know this is all just absurd and dumb and illogical. But I can’t really convince my brain otherwise.