News of Brief Psychotic Disorder

Someone close to me is having problems going to sleep and staying asleep because she says she hears thoughts in her head. She recently got religious and said that they are angels, or higher beings of consciousness, talking to her. She has to do what they say, and tell people what they tell her to say. She won't listen to anybody and believes that everything she thinks is right and damn anybody who doesn't agree. ...

I'm the wife of a person who went through persecutory delusions a few months ago.

This is how it all started..

My husband's office had started laying off people in 2009 and hence there was a lot of stress at this workplace. In a couple of months time he was told he would be laid off as well along with half the team. On the surface he took this well and began applying to other ...

Hi, I'm going to a clinic in a few days and they're talking about putting me on anti-psycotics. I'm currently on no medications or ever have been, but have been majorly depressed for over 3 months now, since coming off a large amount of various drugs which are all reported to cause major depression, psycosis upon withdrawal (which can last up to a year), namely anabolic steroids (orals and injectables) and ephadrine/meths (one case study ...

My stepson, a young adult, has been diagnosed with this condition. His delusions are grandiose and consist of his having been a Navy Seal, participated in the Athens Olympics, participated as and Afgani in the Olympics, etc. My husband has 3 or 4 conversations with him every week (my stepson lives thousands of miles away) and has no idea how to respond to his son. Does one go along with the delusion or does one ...

I'm not sure where to post this, let me know if there is a better place for this.

My husband has been displaying some bizarre behavior lately. I believe it is due to him mixing his medications together in addition to alcohol. I believe this behavior would end if I could convince him he needs to change the way he is taking his pills and drinking.

He is 47 years old. He takes medication for ...

My doctor diagnosed me with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which he called something I forget, and I think it might be something other than schizophrenia now that I've looked at some of what people say on there. What I have is I see things that aren't there and I block everything else out and try to get the thing I see to go away. I can look around the room but all I'll be able ...

I've been living in the middle of a very psychotic paranoid delusion since late December last year.

I believe the police are reading my mind (by picking up vibrations from my throat) and are able to make the muscles in my legs and back move ... which is to say I have tactile/somatic hallucinationsi in which my muscles feel as if they are being pushed and poked and massaged. I hear strange sounds and conversations. ...

OK, I really need to get this off my chest. Basically I cannot get my mind to be at ease. Its constantly thinking and every thought leads on to another one.

I've a feeling I've had a very mild version of this for a while but it hasn't been this bad before. I have smoked weed a couple of times and it does make me incredibly paranoid. Last night I smoked some weed by myself ...

I am hoping that someone might be able to respond to me.
I ofetn see two things that are concerning me , flashing lights which are very mild and immediately in front of my eye, this often happens when i am concentrating on something and i feel i have got to some kind of conclusion or answer, at the moment of the answer is when i see the light, i also see dust floating in ...

Hi, I'm writing to seek advice about myself-a continuing search to fully learn and deal with anxiety & mild paranoia. I did have a brief psychotic episode a few yrs ago. I'm still taking 200mg of Solian, but eventually I want to take something more natural or cease medication if possible. I've a long history of seeking help with Counsellors & a Psychiatrist (current), but no one really shares info with me, so I don't ...