11-26-2025, 03:09 AM
Does anyone else ever feel like most mental health professionals simply don't know how to handle delusions at all when actually presented with them? I feel in my experience, most of them just don't know how to actually handle a patient actively having delusions outside of medication, even if on paper they'd know how to do this in their training.
They often seem to particularly struggle with staying neutral on the subject, frequently I've dealt with professionals that either challenge your delusions or validate them in ways that just worsens the psychosis. I've often been told my religious delusions are actually real either partially or fully, or had professionals act like my persecutory delusions are so outlandish and unrealistic that there's no way I could actually believe that.
They often seem to particularly struggle with staying neutral on the subject, frequently I've dealt with professionals that either challenge your delusions or validate them in ways that just worsens the psychosis. I've often been told my religious delusions are actually real either partially or fully, or had professionals act like my persecutory delusions are so outlandish and unrealistic that there's no way I could actually believe that.