Wow, top post all time is a guy saying he died and woke up in an alternate reality. This was common on my sub too, sometimes people encounter traumatic experiences and it quite literally changes how their brains operate but they trust their own lived experience over science.

Honestly though, not being able to trust your own senses sounds pretty nightmarish. My father used to gaslight me a lot, outright lie about things I knew happpened, so I can relate.

That'd be a very short book. People ask me questions, but honestly perusing the archived subreddit would be more entertaining.

And you are? I am not a psychiatrist but I do hold a bachelors degree in the humanities and I have been taught research skills. I know how to research in the field of psychology, I have even take college courses in psychology. Everything I have ever read or heard of from what i consider reliable sources has been of the opinion that Paranoid Schizophrenia is caused by a dopamine regulation issue in the brain and not by other human beings.

I am not responsible for what other people are doing but I am responsible for I am doing. I was the moderator of the subreddit, and bad things were happening on it. By virture of being the moderator, it is my responsible to try to curb the bad behavior.

If someone had hurt themselves or someone else because of my subreddit, it wouldn't have been my fault, but it would still be bad if I did not try everything I reasonably could to try to curb it or stop it from happening.

So when the sub became inundated with mentally ill persons, I used my power as moderator to try and curb their behavior. I mean people were stopping their medication and then other people were even convincing people to stop seeing their doctors or stopping their meds. Like, I HAVE to do something as moderator.

Human beings are not the "cause" of paranoid schizophrenia.

It actually doesn't matter if they were or were not technically medically schizophrenic. What mattered were the things they said, and what they said were things like:

"My doctor thinks I had a psychotic break, but I know the truth"

"the pills the doctor gave me were for a mental illness but I think she's just trying to stop me uncovering the truth."

"I'm going to kill myself if you can't debunk this theory"

The reason it mattered and why I stopped the subreddit was because people were putting themselves in positions to hurt themselves or others and using my subreddit as justification for it.

Oh man it really was like that or the lady who started the Incel movement. Thankfully mine never got that big.

Yea I have reddit comments still active on this old profile for times like these when I or the sub gets mentioned. I have been active in this thread tellilng people my stories and such, also sifting through my DM's of people who want me to help them escape the simulation.

ok

No I use another account these days. This one is an archive of my late teens and early 20s, I have comment emails active for whenever I get mentioned or DM'd though.

I would love to make sure other subreddits don't fall victim to what mine did but i don't have that kind of power or time.

At least they cant use my community to perpetuate their mental illness anymore.

Again, fuck off.

And they wanted out

Its fun to speculate about, but like I just got a message on August 2 THIS YEAR from a guy who was asking me my thoughts on the idea that the sim creators would retaliate against him for "knowing the truth" and then proceded to tell me the saddest fucking story about his divorce and how his wife is taking his kids from him.

He thought the divorce was punishment from the creators. So yea, the sub took a hard left turn away from the scientific real fuckin quick

I'm the fucking mod of that sub. I shut it down. And I am telling you that it wasn't fucking dumb. People were getting hurt, people were stopping their medication, denying the advice of their doctors, and USING MY SUBREDDIT AS JUSTIFICATION.

I dont give a fuck how much intellectual conversation my subreddit was generating, people were hurting themselves and others and I couldn't ban enough people to stop it. So fuck off

It was more than that. people were having psychotic breaks and denying their therapist and doctors advice and instead coming to the subreddit to try to find people to help them break out of the system, and then other schizophrenic people were agrreeing to help them as they also wanted to break out.

It was only a matter of time before the sub became a suicide cult.

You could probably find it pretty quickly by looking at the archived posts, but it was almost always the same story. "My therapist said I had a Psychotic Break, but I know the TRUTH!"

Saw this one right on the front page

I started that subreddit when I was about 18. There wasn't anyone talking about SimTheory other than maybe Joe Rogan. I was a nerdy little stoner kid who thought it was cool.

I forgot about the sub after it failed to launch and then lo and behold Elon Musk mentioned it on stage at some event and boom here we are. One day I saw on my front page a post from the sub and I saw it now had 1000 members, the growth was slow but over the course of the next 2 years, it began to grow exponentially.

I began to take moderation more seriously but a trend in the posts began to emerge. A LOT of people were posting things about how their therapists and doctors were telling them they had Psychotic Breaks but THEY KNEW they were seeing the strings that control the system, the Simulation, and many even ask for help in breaking out. Some contained Jewish plots, others interdimensional lizards.

I tried my best, and even brought on a friend to try and ban all the schizophrenic users from the sub, but as the sub grew, so to did the mentally ill. So I shut it down.

It was a wild ride to be sure, and a fun story to tell people sometimes. But it got out of control quick

Edit: For those who want me to reopen the sub, know that I will never ever reopen it or hand the keys to someone else. The subreddit became a serious echo chamber for the mentally ill. People would have pyshcotic breaks, want out of the simulation, and then they would find OTHER schizophrenic people on the sub who would agree to help them. It was only a matter of time before it became a suicide cult.

I know you are sane and healthy and you hate you can't get what you want because of a bunch of crazies, but you will never get me to reopen that sub so stop trying.

I am fine. I use a different account now though. I wanted this one to remain as a sort of archive of my late teens and early 20s

1000 extra a month to live alone? No way, pocket that 12k/year and do something cool with it

If ya aint pissin on ya tie when you take a leak, it aint long enough

How has Trump NOT gotten COVID? My guess is he completely has but he's the 1 in 4 who show no symptoms.

31 hours of driving to get from Europe, through all of Russia and Siberia and Canada, to New York?

If you drive 8 hours a day thats of course 4 days of driving. Around the world in under a day, not bad.

My degree is in History and Philosophy and I have found it so difficult to get a job Ive just decided to go back to school and get a teaching cert.

My buddy has a degree in Biology though and he's in the same boat. Its less about STEM vs Humanities and more about Vocational vs Philosophical