News of Brief Psychotic Disorder

**Just a disclaimer this is my first time posting on here so please let me know if there is a more appropriate forum for this post.**

***Also I want to apologize if this post seems rambly or disorganized, it's pretty hard to collect my thoughts but I will try to edit it so it makes more sense hopefully***

As the title says, I don't know what's going on. More specifically, what's going on inside my ...

I’ve been trying many drugs for recreational purposes. So probably a month ago I did 200mg of Elavil and really enjoyed the feeling until I started to get super paranoid and then everything in my house started to turn into giant eyes looking at me and it freaked me out so after I finally calmed down I went to bed p but I couldn’t sleep. I was just laying in bed with my heart racing ...

Does anyone know if being in the menopause (peri-menopause) can trigger much worse symptoms than you ever had before?...like a brief psychotic disorder?

I've always had anxiety and used 'personas' to function in the real world (I have autism dx years ago).
However these last few years I've seemed to think I had multiple alters inside me and sensory issues I'd managed to get under control in adulthood to achieve college and work etc have ...

In "the simplification of psychosis" I am sharing below, a psychosis is "type of psychosis" thus "symptom of psychosis", meaning that if you have any of "below six types of psychosis", you have symptom "living in a way that contradicts your individuality".

• excessive dissociating from inner+outer reality by tool, maintained by will of individual
• excessive dissociating from inner+outer reality by else, maintained by will of psychosis
• [active abstract ...

I don't know if this is the right place to put this but I am struggling a lot at the moment and don't know where to go for advice.
Basically I go into this state (usually at night but a couple of days ago I had it during the day and walked out of school) where something inside my head is telling me I'm being kept against my will in a hospital. It's like I'm ...

Among many other dysfunctional behaviors, my mother has many times over the years believed she smells gas. She then goes into a state of terror and wants to run. As a kid she had me freaked out about it too. As an adult I've re-framed that irrational fear into sensible reality. My family is in a really bad place with her and she has never gotten diagnosed. I think the odor delusions are a real ...