r/creepy • u/diet_m_dew • 5d ago

Does anybody knows what these are?

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English is not my first language so I apologize for any grammatical mistakes. On the 26th of March, my younger sister and her friends found these folded paper in our street. She showed it to me and I found it really bizzare, our hair stood up. She also said that the plastic with a triangle, contained a cross (I am not sure if it was a pendant or wooden carving), but her friends took it and so they were not able to take a picture of it. Also, I believe this is not the original copy, but a printed copy cause it is noticeable. What I am certain of is that the original copy is surely written by hand.

My first thought was, these are used by 'mangkukulam' or witch because of the Latin words. I have seen a lot of witches in movies using Latin chants to cast spell. IDK. Let me know what u think.

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u/peesys 5d ago

But he’s not schizophrenic right? My friend was bipolar and he found the meaning of life through bees during an episode before he walked in front of a Mac truck

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u/KorovasId 5d ago

'Delusions of Grandeur' is not exclusive to schizophrenia. It's where you end up with a lot of mental illnesses when they're turned up to 11. I had a bipolar uncle who though God was speaking to him through spiders. A lot of schizophrenic people go wild on numbers though and the patterns in OPs look very similar. Binging on certain drugs or sleep depravsion can cause the same thing too!

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u/0theHumanity 5d ago

I sometimes feel like they should change the name. These disturbed people are sometimes very humble and think you are insulting them when you say it. This bitch thinks that I think I'm some kind of king? Um no. Look at me lol.

As far as delusions of granduer are concerned. I would call them cryptic delusions. Stuff they think needs decoded. They sometimes think these codes are common we just can't see them for some reason.

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u/Geebuz 4d ago

wrote a book on my drug induced psychosis episode and how strange it was looking back on the behavior... but at the time it was just second nature and i had no awareness of how unusual and out of character my thinking and actions were.... actually terrifying at the time maybe the most scared i have ever been in my life ....

for about a week this went on and eventually my fight or flight kicked in and i broke down had no drugs to keep me going and slept on my friends floor for days on and off before getting the energy and mindfulness to move onto a couch and start breaking down what happened over that time

..meth, no sleep, extremely stressful living conditions and 1,4b addiction was a drag on my life for a long time...

thats probably fairly tame as far as situations those things have taken me into...

ive been in hospital and ICU many times, and police stations and car crashes and things no one should be finding themselves in ....

a product of my environment from early on i guess but doing ok now!

STAY SAFE GUYS SORRY FOR TALKING YOUR EARS OFF! :D :D

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u/Netroth 4d ago

What’s “1,4b”?

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u/PhoenixPhonology 3d ago

It's an inhalent, /solvent

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u/unclebaboon 4d ago

link to book please? sounds like an interesting read!

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u/praisedalawd666 4d ago

i wanna read your book!

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u/Useful-Rooster-1901 4d ago

mania is associated with delusions of granduer, a feeling of invincibility or the ability to take on the world, i wouldnt characterize that at all the same as... whatever is going on in Ops post/diagrams. Its possible for there to be multiple types of delusions, some humble and some not so much.

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u/PacJeans 4d ago

There's so many things like that in psychology that is just completely antithetical to a charitable name. Delusions of grandeur, as you said, selective mutism, delusional parasitosis, etc.

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u/Steffenwolflikeme 4d ago

Yeah ADHD used to be called Minimal Brain Dysfunction. While ADHD may be a more kind name it arguably isn't any more accurate to the condition.

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 4d ago

yah, just like the 1x1=2 burned out actor guy that made the rounds on facebook earlier this year.

poor man

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u/Wutsalane 4d ago

Yeah can confirm, I’m bipolar type 2, and before I was diagnosed I got put on some antidepressants (venaflaxine I think) that kick started a serious hypo-manic episode and started to believe I was put here on earth to save humanity and shit like that

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u/RTK4740 2d ago

What did the spiders say?

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u/drugrelatedthrowaway 5d ago edited 5d ago

The word they should have used is “psychosis.”

Schizophrenia is a variant; the manic part of bipolar 1 can be another

Edit: also, I’m sorry for your loss

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u/MrFatwaffles 5d ago

Yeah the manic part can prevent sleeping which in turn makes people seem crazy because they have not slept in a week.

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u/Kittensandbacardi 4d ago

Type 1 mania can often cause psychosis long before sleep deprivation kicks in

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u/SumgaisPens 4d ago

How many bipolars are there?

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u/Xendrus 4d ago

You don't have to be schizophrenic to have episodes of insanity like this. My brother, normal as hell his whole life, had a stressful period where he didn't sleep 1 night.. then the next night something happened and he wasn't able to sleep.. then by the 3rd day he was so fucked up he jumped out of a moving car and had to be put into a psychiatric ward for a week. Now he's fine again, and it's been a decade. Brains are weird.

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u/chth 4d ago

Anecdotally I think people like your brother who are relatively normal people are the ones worst affected by things like this because it’s very much outside of their normal lives.

I’ve brought myself to the point of delusional psychosis with drug cocktails mixed with life events but I knew what I was flirting with more or less. It was no shock to me that I thought the world was winking at me because I believed I had metacognition on 9g of shrooms for example. The proof to me was basically me experiencing extreme Deja Vu, giving me the sense that I was one step more in sync with the world or some dumb shit but that exact same feeling would be terrifying if you weren’t trying to feel it.

It can be really really scary when the brain no longer knows how to process information properly because it can still behave in a weirdly uniform process.

When my Grandma is tired she hears the TV telling her that I am stealing all her money. I remind her that if I wanted to steal all her money I wouldn’t be coming to visit her multiple times a day at a nice home that I am directing her funds to as her power of attorney. She will see all the logic in everything I am saying but follow up with “but how come they were saying it on the TV?”

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u/Steffenwolflikeme 4d ago

Does your grandmother have any sort of diagnosed neurological condition? That sounds like a little more than just being tired and elderly.

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u/chth 4d ago

Undiagnosed autism, diagnosed anxiety. She fills in the blanks with her fears

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u/taterthot2k16 3d ago

This sounds like dementia/Alzheimer’s

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u/hotdogcityleague 3d ago

I thought the same - and even more so if this occurs only when she’s sleep deprived/tired - the same buildup that happens in the brain when we have dementia, also occurs when we miss sleep - beta-amyloid and tau—that builds up in the brain when sleep deprived and also builds up in the brain when folks have dementia… shows similar properties, I think - so, your comment made me wonder if this was an ongoing occurrence for grandma, maybe it’s early signs and less related to sleep deprivation, but I can’t say for sure ofc

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u/chth 3d ago

It’s been a long road to get her over her anxieties of sleeping in bed. She would refuse to sleep in bed out of “fear of falling out” but in reality she would refuse because she can’t control her bladder while asleep and was ashamed to urinate at night.

Now that we’ve got her comfortable wearing depends and sleeping in bed, her cognitive functions have greatly improved and her episodes have greatly diminished.

Many people have told me she just has dementia and I’m not refusing the idea that she may have it to some degree, but I was convinced from the start that her anxieties have led her to weird lifestyle decisions that have been contributing to her cognitive breakdown and hoped that by addressing her anxieties on individual basis, her abilities would return the best they could.

I am proud to say that over the past 3 months she has had astounding improvements, going from being a woman convinced there are demons, children and rapists running around her house to being able to tell the time properly, remember the day of the week, and remember her plans for the coming weeks without any major issues.

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u/Billythagoatt 4d ago

Something similar happened to me after no sleep for a few days. Not fun, very scary. Make sure to get rest 😅

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u/chrolnsfs 3d ago

Yeah, I had mindfulness induced temp psychosis after a fight with my ex boyfriend. Literally the stuff that they tout as "great for your brain" put me into crazy mode where I seriously wanted to hurt myself somehow for hours at a time.

I had joined a psychiatrist led MBSR workshop where they encouraged daily meditating for 30-60 minutes a day. I was in week 3, had finished 15 minutes before and suddenly lost all sense of reality after arguing. We had been together for 2 years at that point so it was a very average fight, but this time something just broke. About 7-8 hrs later it's like someone turned the light back on. Might have been related to my boyfriend handing me a handout on 'irrational thinking and beliefs'. I read it and started laughing, "dude, I think this applies to you more than me."

This was over a decade ago, but I remember reading a few articles soon after that discussed the exact thing that happened to people with deep seeded trauma who went on silent meditation retreats without first doing psychotherapy. I would use the metaphor of trying to boil milk in a pan on the highest setting with the cover on and having everything boil over onto the stove.

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u/psychrolut 4d ago

My altar is in here, please come thither

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u/Metaphysicsofwhat 4d ago

YIPPEEE!! *appropriately skips into the blackness

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u/psychrolut 4d ago

Oh it’s just a random pagan pshhh

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u/Hyphum 5d ago

Sorry for your loss, if they didn’t make it.

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u/peesys 4d ago

They did not. Thank you

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u/diaperpop 4d ago

I’m so sorry.

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u/peesys 4d ago

Thank you

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u/funatical 4d ago

Yes he is. I solved a lot of things when manic including new symbols that made sense of the universe.

I lost all my journals in my last hospital stint. My family didn’t feel the need to keep them while cleaning out my tent/car.

In fairness to us, mania has solved a few world problems. Lord Byron figured out refrigeration and his daughter programming. We all seem to enjoy that shit.

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u/Marzuzu92 4d ago

Seems like that happens sometimes wonder why that is.

Wait no I do not.

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u/orincoro 4d ago

Bam is almost certainly borderline with psychotic episodes. His issues don’t seem to be solved by mood stabilizers, which is how you’d be able to tell the difference.

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u/peesys 4d ago

Borderline what? Difference between what and what?

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u/orincoro 4d ago

Borderline personality disorder. It’s its own thing.

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u/peesys 4d ago

Mood stabilizers would solve schizophrenia and bipolar but not BPD?

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u/Whiskeyperfume 3d ago

Therapy is what is needed for BPD.

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u/stalinwasballin 4d ago

Had a bipolar friend who decided that his delusional fantasy enabled him to fly. Gravity disagreed…

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u/horitaku 4d ago

Schizoeffective disorder if I had to guess with Bam. Chemical effects from drugs can cause schizophrenia type symptoms and it’s fairly common in folks who have chemical imbalances like bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder.

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u/assassbaby 5d ago

ive seen that movie too!

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u/NiceAxeCollection 4d ago

Are you sure it wasn’t a Peterbilt?