phycosis

[hope77]

is there anyone out there who has had a phycosis i've had three or four in 28 years the last time i had one which lasted a month i just kept talking to my husband it drove him up the wall how do others handle it

[Simona]

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 : )

[JoseJones]

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

[CherryBomb]

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. 

[hope77]

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 

[hope77]

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

[MoonGal]

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.

[hope77]

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