phycosis

Yes i'm familiar with that word. They say i am a Schizoid Affective. When it's really bad i can't talk and i stare alot. At my worst i whisper but i hurt no-one. I'm too paranoid to take medication so i'm living my best version of normal with my Ipod Nano. I have lived most of my life like this and know no different. And so different IS my scary. I have great days and bad days like everyone. I manage with warm showers, listening to the same music over and over again with abit of pacing in between, vigorous hair brushing. This is a pretty average week. I sleep with a print out of a prayer i hid under my bed. That's just there as an 'incase'. I think the colder darker months are pretty tricky with the brain. I detest winter. In anycase i don't feel 'mentally ill'. This is just me : )

Hi @hope77,

Welcome to the forum. There's a lot of people on this forum with experience of psychosis. I hope you'll find some benefit from reading their experience.

There's a long thread on this subject here:

http://saneforums.org/t5/Special-Events/Topic-Tuesday-closed-Psychosis/m-p/23390/highlight/true#M517

Hi @hope77

Experiencing psychosis can be really scarey. Did you get support from a profession for this? And have you been formally diagnosed?

Psychosis can be related to different diagnosis such as schizophrenia, bi-polar, drug-induced, as @Simona schizo-affective disorder to name a few. Managing the illness can help with managing a psychotic episode.

it was over a three month period christmas and new year. i did'nt really know what was happening i just reach out to anyone who would listen and masked the delousion saw my dr and he advise me i had anxiety he also gave me a insult so my husband and i decided it was best to seek help elsewhere went to my GP she surgested that i see a new phycristrist so i did by then the phycosis had gone i was brave enough to ask him what was wrong with me and he said that i had recurrent deppression disorder with phycosis scary stuff but relived that i'am finally diagnosed. Sorry about the spelling mistakes only went to school to eat my lunch. ha ha

I'am really scared of having another Phycosis does anyone know if doctors know how to prevent them?

I only have psychosis if some catalyst is present like alcohol, non-prescrbed medication, prescribed medication that flips me into an episode. I am on an anti-psychotic medication, extreme stress throws me into hypo-mania and if unrelenting can trigger psychosis.

On some different day hen I finally presented to a pstchiatrist in 2014, I might well have been diagnosed as Bi Polar with Pschitzoid Affective, but I was not psychotic when I saw them and I protected the psychosis (did not talk about it to the diagnositic Psych I saw.)

One of my Psychosis is thinking and talking compuslively in rhyming pentremetre. So I become literally a Mad Poet. I have learned how to diffuse this somewhat. I have said here before that I don't 'hear voices'. But I kind of do, they narrate what is going on around me, I am just luck of the draw that they are not malevolent voices.

Since finding the right medication mix and balance I have been okay @hope77 even though I have just gone through a relly really hard time with OCD and PTSD and anxiety after getting on a medicationt hat wasn;t good for me, and being extremely streesed in a situation dealing with my frail, aged Mum.

I am very GLAD I am on the anti-psychotic, expect for the weight gain (which in truth is more about my craving for fat, sugar food since going on it, and not putting the brakes on when I am stressed, not being able to exercise because of phsical diabilities.

I think there ARE many people who manage without medication too some on this forum, so I am not saying it HAS to be medication, but that is what has worked for me.

i can relate to the rhyming then i just talked and talked then i had a really bad parnoid when i was taken bits of reality and basicaly created a whole synaro of a crime that i thought someone was after me i don't know how long it lasted for my husband has told me it lasted about 8 weeks. i don't remember much but i know now that if ever happens again i hope doctors pick it up waited to long to get help at the moment feel like i been hit by a truck my emotions are all over the place good and bad emotions sometimes very strong like i can't control them. feeling very insecure and scared