Psychosis

Do you ever experienced psychosis? If yes, how often it occurred? There is a correlation of SPD and psychosis, but isn't a schizoid trait.

I'm schizoid and psychotic, just had a psychotic episode hours ago. I'm medicated with seroquel 800mg. Psychosis with me it's almost instantaneous when I stop taking my pills, like, I just need to wait some hours and then I'm f*cked.

Since I started Risperidone, I haven't stopped so not sure if I'd go psychotic again. I want to stop and find out but my psych doesn't think it's a good idea.

Once you are psychotic, it's strange not to get a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform or Schizoaffective. If not for maintaining my meds, I've wondered if I'd be Schizoaffective.

GuyVinces wrote:Do you ever experienced psychosis? If yes, how often it occurred? There is a correlation of SPD and psychosis, but isn't a schizoid trait.

Long periods of major depression have induced psychosis in me. Delusional thinking and isolation are a bad combination. Luckily, my tendency toward depression has waned in the past five years or so, without medication. The only thing I can guess that would account for this is a good diet. Or maybe the fear of depression itself; for me, depression is like a scabbed over wound. If for some reason that scab is scraped off, the wound is once again exposed, extremely tender, and vulnerable to infection. I take great pains to keep that scabby wound covered and protected. If it hasn't healed by now it never will, and I think I've finally figured out a way to resist picking at it.

Anger is another precursor to psychosis, but only if it backs me into a corner with no outlet.

It is my understanding that psychosis is more of a state than a condition. Isolation, which would include the absence of somebody being around to say "Are you okay? You don't appear to be thinking straight" can be a slippery slope. I've read somewhere that schizoids are prone to psychosis because of this.

iabsurdlyexist wrote:Once you are psychotic, it's strange not to get a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform or Schizoaffective.

Now I received a new diagnosis due to psychosis: acute psychotic disorder.

GuyVinces wrote:Now I received a new diagnosis due to psychosis: acute psychotic disorder.

Those mental health professionals are a consistent lot, eh? Of course, I don't have the same background so I'm just shooting blanks. I assume the meds are the same so I guess it doesn't really matter.

I agree with naps that mine was most likely depression induced but I was past the worst part when psychosis hit again. So now, I am hoping to live a life devoid of stress or much of anything for that matter. Depression sucks and psychosis is an ugly twin sister when you realize it. It's funny when I think how good just Schizoid and AvPD was.

I've had it all too frequently enough when off my mood stabilizers. 300 mg Lamotrigine.

Closest I get is when I wake up I sometimes see visual hallucinations (spiders on the wall, flies scattering) and one time I took too much (vastly too much) over the counter sleep medicine and hallucinated a blue zombie face with a snake tongue and stick figures fighting. During the former I often can't tell if it's real or not immediately, but with the latter I knew it wasn't real. Also with the former it's not helped that once when living in college housing I woke up with a centipede crawling on my chest for real.

I've had a lot of psychosis this year. My mind spirals absolutely out of control.

I sometimes feel as though I do it to myself because if it's too quiet in there I have to start a riot. My thoughts are destructive, I become completely paranoid and I delude myself in many different ways.

I also talk to myself as if I'm standing outside my own head looking in. When this happens it calms me down. I call him the voice of reason and he makes me see how things "actually" are.

I really should talk to a professional about this but I'm sick of getting diagnosed with stuff.

There was a brief time in college but it didn't stick. A anomaly in my life as a whole. There was a lot going on at the time so it's hard to point a single finger at a cause. It was more like pre-psychosis. An overactive imagination that controlled me. Stopped wanting to touch things in public, didn't want to drink the water, had an imaginary friend, was downright terrified of visualizing ghosts, lost a lot of weight rapidly, had a very restrictive diet, was alone nearly all the time, felt things. The air around me was charged, and my senses were running wild. I can still feel the memory. Sense it brush against my mind in a shudder. The only way I'll get back into that state is kicking and screaming. When the murmurs come, whispered thoughts about coincidences and spirits...I push it away. There's a risk in entertaining possibilities. I can feel it trembling beneath the surface like a cup too full of water. A rich imagination that could drown me.

I've had one of the worst years of my life with regards my psychosis.

I swear I've had at least one breakdown this year as well as other smaller do's.

I can't even stop to take a break because there's no one to pick up the tab for me. But believe me, there has been times during this year when I could have quite easily have just....STOPPED!

I sometimes would just love to be able to tell someone about it but I end up not doing and then I get scared in case health care people tell me I'm too ill to work.

I can't not work but I feel like I'm going madder and madder and madder until one day my head's gonna pop.