I think I get delusional sometimes

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Yeah sometimes I feel like people are reading my thoughts too.

I'm obsessed with a certain musician and I believe he speaks to me and gives me timely life advice through his tweets and music.

Yes, well, this seems too personal for coincidence.

It is incredibly soothing.
Looking at him and hearing his voice is a stim, I have 2 thousand photos, gifs, videos, interviews, songs, my iPad is having a breakdown over him.
I don't love him like a normal fan.
Don't want to discuss him or share him with anyone else.
He's mine.

Well my delusions really do scare me. They're nothing to laugh about.

^ sorry, yeah.
They can be hella scary.

^ I know it can be really terrifying to think later how crazy something you did was.
I still feel like that about stabbing myself, it's a time I completely lost control of myself and it scares me to think what I could have done in that moment.
I've also had to be restrained from jumping in front of cars and beating my head, it's like I'm aware I can suddenly snap and there's a constant anxiety about whether you might snap again.
Probably not quite the same in your case.

When I was in my early teens I started having so many strange and scary thoughts and ideas that I knew weren't true but I couldn't stop having them. I guess it's understandable that I ended up being diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia, but when I look back on it it feels more like they were intrusive thoughts caused by OCD.

I once thought that I had diabetes and was wetting the bed at night even though the sheets were perfectly dry whenever I checked them and I had no symptoms similar to diabetes. I had read about a kid who developed diabetes had suddenly started wetting his bed when he normally didn't and it unnerved me.

I thought that everything I ate and drank was poisoned. I had read about botulism poisoning and it scared me really badly. I almost drove my parents crazy.

I had trouble drawing my cartoons for a certain time because I kept having thoughts of them doing things I found creepy or disgusting like swearing or graphically doing bodily functions. This was years before South Park ever came out and I strongly believed in keeping my cartoons at a "G" rating.

But probably worst of all was that I kept having thoughts that my dolls and stuffed animals were alive and they were actually watching me getting dressed in front of them, and that they could read my mind, especially when I had "dirty" thoughts or was reading about sexual stuff at school.

All these thoughts lasted for a couple of years or so, and then left as mysteriously as the came. Maybe because I finally worked up the nerve to actually talk about them even though I was really afraid people would think was insane or just plain stupid. I don't usually even talk to people about this story because I'm still afraid they'll lock me up and heavily medicate me. WP is one of the few places where I do feel safe to talk about it.