I have had very severe (honestly all encompassing) delusions about telepathy for the 20 years that I’ve been schizophrenic and I’m just now grappling with the thought that it’s not real. It’s been my most dominant experience of not just the disease but my life. I have kept it secret for a very long time, the logic being that what I’m experiencing is consciousness and shared consciousness that literally everyone experiences. That I’m just terrible at being conscious and people look down on me hard because of that. I experience, very viscerally, people assaulting me (tactile hallucinations) and mocking me (telepathically) for being mentally weak. I became schizophrenic at 17 and have thought this since. I do and present pretty well with schizophrenia, but I’ve learned to compartmentalize when asked to describe my symptoms. I can say this is a delusion to someone concerned, but it hasn’t been in my heart. It’s my whole life and I don’t know how I let myself believe something that has done nothing but make me so incredibly sick. I need advice and insight on how to unravel the delusion from my mind.