How do you stop engaging with delusions
I know they’re not real but I still keep engaging with them. For example u believe that I can telepathically communicate with someone who I don’t know yet who I will meet in the future. My brain comes up with entire conversations and I can spend hours “telepathically communicating”. The thing is I know that it’s not real though. Logically I know that there is no one on the other side and it is my imagination but I get caught up in it and I choose to believe it and engage in it because I feel more real of a connection with the made up characters in my mind than real people. I know it has to be some sort of coping strategy I came up with in my childhood but it is frustrating because mentally I get invested in delusions I know aren’t real and people I know I will never meet.