Some people have suggested that my experiences have sometimes (especially when they happen more acutely) been down to very high anxiety levels. I'm not sure why it happens and still don't have enough of a 'reality base' these days to be able to say if it's possible that the signs are real or not, but most of what I have been taught suggests that the brain believes/experiences things because it needs to, and, though I way overuse this word, it can be the mind's way of processing very difficult thoughts and feelings. Maybe if you start working with the psychologist, at some point you might together try and think about what function the experiences serve, and why you choose to believe them at times. I've never been able to figure out/find real evidence that my experiences weren't real in a literal sense, but it did help me to think 'how does believing it help me?' and eventually reached a time when I realised that they didn't, and so it became easier to not take too much notice of them when they came.
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