What are your experiences with psychosis? How do you cope?!
Question: What are your experiences with psychosis!? How do you cope!?
This can be from a wide range of experiences from psychotic depression to schizophrenia!. I'm only curious becuase I'm trying to understand what I experienced!. I basically heard voices-I didn't know where they were coming from!. I was paranoid!. My doctor said when I went into the hospital I was disorgranized as I couldn't carry on a conversation or something like that!. I currently take risperdal and it helps a little bit as I still hear and see things once in a while!.Any input is greatly appreciated!. Thanks!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Mine started more like dissociation - living in a pea soup fog during a very bad depression, but I had some odd ideas about it and eventually became convinced the knives in my house wanted to kill me and hallucinated a rope in the air that curled up into a noose!. I was started on a different antidepressant that made me manic!. No significant manic psychosis followed, and I've been fine since stabilized!. The whole experience still bothers me, and anytime I catch shadows out of the corner of my eye I double take for fear that I'm seeing things!. Time helps!. Being on the right meds helps more!. Without them at this point I think I'd be mad and on the street or in the hospital!. Instead, I've regained a normal life!. Hang in there!. Work with your doc on the meds, it can take a couple years (it did me)!. Work with your therapist!. Therapy does make a difference over time if you give it a chance!. A good therapist is also a good resource to lean on and talk to about stuff that you rather not put on your family!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
my mom suffers from paranoid schizophrenia!. to cope she says that she just does things that keep her active!. it keeps her mind of it!. she says that her symptoms only bother that much when shes not doing anything or stressed out or lonely!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I heard voices telling me I was worthless and I should kill myself!. it helped me to repeat songs that I like in my head!. kinda like turning up the stereo to drown out my mom lolWww@Answer-Health@Com
Depersonalisation disorder!.
It was the worst period of my life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It was the worst period of my life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com