Delusional boyfriend or "psychic sexual powers"?? HELP

I am grateful for this forum and hope I can find some helpful answers here.
(edited for fear he may find it. Thanks for understanding).
behaviours: belief in psychic powers, obsessive self-medication with natural herbs or vitamins, and some paranoia.
I now worry that he may have some kind of delusional disorder...

Delusional Disorder would'nt have been the first thing to come to my mind, but i'm not a professional. I think that you'd get different opinions depending on who you ask about this though. In my view, OCD seems tro be at play in a small way, but to get to the point where he is at, it would have had to have been building up gradually for a very long time. So, do you know what his life/habits were like before you met him? I have OCD, for example, and before I had therapy I genuinely believed that taking CAlcium and Megnesium tablest boosted my metabolism and made me look better. In reality, the 20+ tablest I was taking each day of them were probably messing around with my nervous system more than giving me any benefit. I was out of touch with the world back then, and your partner seems to be out of touch too (not necessarily an insult).

Overall, I think it'd be very interesting to hear about his past. That's the key to understanding him completely, but I guess that goes without saying.

Oh, for the record, I also believed that 'every' woman who even glanced at me wanted to go out with me. I was a terribly arrogant young man in my late teens. I was really out of tuoch with everything. Your partner doesn't sound exactly like me, but similarities are certainly there. The only other people I know who 'religiously' take tablets that are unnecessary these days are both also out of touvh with things, and keep to themselves. Again, I'm not implying that being out of touch is an insult. It's just a way of explaining the way they think and see others in the world.

Kevin

Dear Purple66,
Sounds like your boyfriend has some mental health problems, if he is still functioning at his job then delusional disorder is often a fit. It may also be that he is having a bout of major depression, and Kevin may be onto something with the OCD. Major depression is known to have psychotic features and I'd say believing that one is psychic and channeling thoughts is psychotic. Although some would argue this is within the bounds of "normalcy" for me, it was one of the first symptoms that I had. Being psychic and not kidding about it can be problematic.

Have you thought about your feelings for your boyfriend? Most people would say you would be wise to recommend he get help, or get out of the relationship, especially if he is following the delusional beliefs already. I'd recommend you read more about psychosis to understand the potential risks... there are no bounds to reason and logic when you are ill, at least that is how I felt. Maybe it is different for other people.
Sunny

Thanks Kevin and Sunnyg for your responses.

I openly talked to him yesterday about his "obsessions" with vitamins and that bracelet. He admitted that he started the vitamins a year ago when he had full-time college courses + his fullt-ime day job to keep up with. He said he knows that 90% of what he takes serves no purpose and that he has an obsession problem with those. He said he can live without them and is going to prove to me he can be without the vitamins and without the bracelet. He said he has wondered many times whether he was using the vitamins as a "crutch".
I told him that I fear the vitamin obsession is hiding a mentally-unsound person.

Sunnyg , he is functional at his job and actually performing quite well there. He has been with the same company for 10 years and even got promoted. His work though is high-stress (call center) and many of his colleagues recently went on burn-out leave. Anger issues and depression are common things in his workplace.

Kevin, according to him, the vitamin thing started last year as I mentioned. The bracelet, his mother (also a self-proclaimed medium and numeroologist or soemthing) gave it to him about 8 months ago. His mom told him that her "guides" said he was supposed to inherit various psychic abilities.

Thanks a lot for your feedback...

Hey again,

When you say that you believe his vitamin obsession is hiding a mentally-unsound person, are you implying that he's using this obsession in the same way that some would - for example - use food or drugs to deal with their depression? AS you've mentioned, it's a 'crutch'...?

Kevin

I think that is what he meant, but not in the sense of coping with his depression, but in the sense of coping with his fatigue and burn-out feeling. basically the idea is that the vitamins give him energy.

That is very much the same idea I got from taking my calcium tablets. I managed to migrate from such ideas by trying one or two days without taking any of the tablets. I just gauged whether or not they really did give me extra engery or not. There was never any real difference, to be honest, so logic eventually shone through and I decided to stop wasting so much money buying them.

Thanks a lot Kevin!
It is nice to hear about your own experience.