Have any of you suffered trough psychosis?

[Owl of Minerva]

And if you did, did you recover? did you relapse? I would love to hear your stories if you're willing to share.

I will share mine eventually if there's interest.

 

[signifying nothing]

I believe I did for a few hours, some years ago now, but I pulled out of it and haven't experienced anything like it since.

 

[Deleted member 22624]

Yes a few times, two really bad ones that lasted many months. It's quite traumatic in nature and I feel too insecure to really let loose about it on here but they really finished me off

 

[Owl of Minerva]

Yes a few times, two really bad ones that lasted many months. It's quite traumatic in nature and I feel too insecure to really let loose about it on here but they really finished me off

Same here, never the same since.

 

[Deleted member 23885]

I have, I experienced psychotic depression.

 

[blackwidow92]

Yes, last year for a few weeks before I ended up sectioned because of it.

 

[NegativeSymptoms]

Yes, multiple times. The worst part about it is that they give potent antipsychotics in psych ward which caused months of akathisia. Literal torture.

 

[WornOutLife]

Lately, when the time to sleep comes, I start feeling extremely nervous and as if my brain is gonna explode. It's a kind of psychosis according to google.
What's helping me? Well, the pill I take. (lorazepam, 3mg).
I hate pills but I really need that one so as to be calmer and SLEEP.

 

[Spitfire]

And if you did, did you recover? did you relapse? I would love to hear your stories if you're willing to share.

I will share mine eventually if there's interest.

Since early childhood my brain lies to me all the time and I have had psychosis too many times to count. I mostly think I have an ability to recognize the lies my brain makes up, I think? It has always been a struggle.

The first major episode was when I was really young in early grade school. I was suddenly accompanied by a man with a shotgun who would stay in my bedroom with me at night and one night he was ordering me around to do stuff and he made me stand on my hands and head leaning against a wall and he was threatening to shoot me, and behind me was a deep fiery pit that the shotgun man was forcing me to fall backwards into it... and I did with a loud thump at night waking up my family. I went running around the house and it just goes on and on just this one story, it is too much!

 

[untimelydemise]

yes part of bpd and autism mix :( been on quite a few high dose APs eg olazapine 20mg first time was mainly paranoid and refusing to eat drink take meds due to being convinced it was poisones buy a society.... and then hallucinations and just general mistrust and

 

[Spitfire]

yes part of bpd and autism mix :( been on quite a few high dose APs eg olazapine 20mg first time was mainly paranoid and refusing to eat drink take meds due to being convinced it was poisones buy a society.... and then hallucinations and just general mistrust and

Thank you for sharing and I hear you. It is very weird when people you know are suddenly floating through walls back and forth defying all natural laws, was once something I experienced.

 

[BandAddict]

Yes, I've experienced it for most of my life, in different ways. It's most often just delusions and auditory hallucinations. I've heard voices, though they often don't make any sense. Shit like "Yikes, sorry it wasn't daylight" which is random af.

During my worst episode, which was ongoing for maybe a month or two, I heard and thought a lot of crazy things, always thinking my life was in danger. I heard people with megaphones outside saying "come out with your hands up!" and I would hide in my room having meltdown after meltdown thinking I was done for and they would find me. Also having weird beliefs like people plotting to kill me and every time I saw someone on the phone they were saying terrible things about me, like they were reporting me or something.

For that whole duration of time, I couldn't even fucking vacuum the house because I'd hear people screaming and begging me to turn it off, and I'd see all the doorknobs in the house rattling like people were trying to get in...

I could go into so many different experiences, but yeah, it's really draining. I've had times where it's calmed down or stopped for a bit, but it comes back, especially when I get extremely depressed. I'd say though, that paranoia and delusions are almost always present.

 

[awfullife]

I had a few month period of psychosis which was caused by high doses of adderall plus 8-10 monsters a day coupled with the let down of losing a career / and a failed marriage. It was really tough. I thought I was holding myself together but as i look back on some emails from that time that I was sending out, just Yikes was I out of control and i sold my house and all my possessions in a 3 week time frame which was really dumb.

Anyways, thank heavens I didn't get tossed in psych ward. Now I am way more stable but the after effects are irreversible. No money and I live with my dad - miss my kids. Mental Health issues suck. I never thought it would happen to me. I was a high level executive BTW.