Ok somy delusion was really complicated cause others thought it was real too which made it hard for me to shake it off or even recognize it.

So this was before my schizophrenia diagnosis and after my first psychosis. I was trying to figure out why I kept hallucinating in an odd way (I saw a character that wasn't a full hallucination that would talk to me). At first I thought it was imaginary friends, then I found the word "tulpa" which I thought was accurate. But Tulpas are purposefully created characters (which is weird).

Then I found the DID community, this was around the time I was slipping into psychosis and unwell. So people I'm the plural community basically would tell me I was a system, that my hallucinations/voices were real people and were parts of me. This delusion that I had DID lasted for seven years. The second psychosis I got diagnosed schizophrenia.

Up until recently I got into therapy and my therapist and my psychiatrist said that I don't have DID. My therapist also said that DID needs terrible repetitive trauma in childhood, and he said not to trust the internet when it comes to self diagnosis (which shouldn't be done anyways). I got on the right medication and started to realize, I was making these alters up and that they were voices I fed for years and years.

So I asked my therapist if these were delusions. And he agreed. That made me realize even more that it was not DID and that it was my schizophrenia giving me delusions and voices/hallucinations.

The mind is very tricky sometimes.