Lindsay: Delusions of Persecution
   
"I was afraid of everyone. Video cameras were lodged all over my room and the government was watching me. There were times when I thought aliens were communicating to me through the street lights.  I couldn't talk in the car, because the CIA had tapped our radio to hear my mother and my conversations. I also heard voices and couldn't sleep at night. In fact I got expelled from school when my grades went down the drain for threatening to kill someone because "Mr. X" (the man in my head) told me to.
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Kim: Hallucinations

"The voice then told me to kill myself in a slow, painful way. That same evening I was watching the news and they had a segment about roller coasters. When they showed the roller coaster from the cameras point of view, the voice started going "wooooooo hooooooooo" like it loved riding the roller coaster."
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Laura: Hallucinations

"I remember when I first noticed my son acting different. He would be yelling at the TV or the game he was playing, saying "you're not playing right!" I never put too much into it. At first I thought he had an imaginary friend."
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Lindsay: Delusions of Grandeur

"My family keeps telling me about this one delusion I had in which I thought I was a vampire and I actually glued fangs into my mouth one night. My belief in this was so real that I became the vampire, I actually would cut myself if there was no one else to suck blood. I tried to bite my friend and ended up hurting her wrist."
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Scott: Delusions of Grandeur/Referential

"If I hear a familiar song and I know the words, I can inflict pain onto whomever I am looking at simply by the fact that I am so familiar with the song."
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Brennon: Delusions of Grandeur

"When I was having one of my many psychotic episodes, I thought that God was going to take me to heaven after turning my body into pure light. I thought that Moses and Elijah, from the bible, were my friends, and I could see them in the mirror looking back at me with proud faces............I hope that people will eventually learn that the mentally ill are usually not violent like the media and Hollywood often describes many of us as. I know for me, that, most the time I just wanted to be left alone.
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