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What are some things other psychotics do to differentiate between hallucination and reality? And what are ways some of you hold off symptoms? Looking to get a nice thread for people to help each other going here, this stuff isn't posted about enough.

Ways we prevent symptoms/stop them from progressing:

Make background noise to prevent auditory hallucinations. Most of ours start by hearing something that we can't identify the cause of in the background, and our brain starts the spiral from there. So we listen to music all the time and sleep with a fan on every single night, even in the winter. We just point it away from us if we don't want it making us cold.

Blame the cat (or other pets). Any weird movement, scratching, crunching or thumping? That's just Jerry, don't worry about it. He's a silly cat that does cat things even while we're sleeping. Any noise can be blamed on pets or the wind, which stops the paranoia from setting in and making everything bad.

We also tell ourselves that if there was an actual issue like an intruder or monster, the cat would hiss or scream, and the dog would be barking or making noise. This can be applied to many pets.

Stay busy. Focus on something--art, video games, tv shows and films, craft, gardening, anything that keeps you thinking. Don't let the anxiety get to you, just stay focused on your regular life.

Laugh at it. You're hallucinating a monster in your peripheral vision? Name it Fred and tell him to pay rent. You hear weird noises? Tell them to come back with a warrant. For us, treating symptoms like they're jokes or not serious makes us less anxious and therefore makes it easier to get back to a point where we're okay.

Having a friend or a pet near you can help. We feel safer and less alone when we see another living thing near us that's safe. We don't feel as much like we're trapped in another dimension that way.

How we differentiate between reality and unreality:

Touch it. This one only works for things you're not scared of, and if you don't have tactile hallucinations. It's not foolproof! But when we're seeing things like bugs and stuff, reaching out to touch them causes them to fade away so we know they're fake.

Ask friends and other trusted people if they "heard that" or "saw anything". If they're psychosis friendly, feel free to explain and be specific. If not, be vague and keep it to simple things like "hey did you hear anything? I couldn't tell what it was", if that will be safe enough. Having people to ground you can be great.

Look at how others around you are acting. Are they running or interacting with the thing in question in any way? Do they seem to look at it or no? If no one is noticing, it's less likely to be real.

These won't work for everyone and some of these might be harmful to others, but they're helpful to us. You know best what will help you!

Please feel free to add your own! We need more discussion around psychosis that isn't "scary evil person disorder and how to deal with people who have it".

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I hate how inaccessible my school is. I hate how it’s always put on my mobility to work around it. I have to sacrifice my health to be able to get around. I keep having meltdowns, I’ve had to drag myself up stairs with my wheelchair more times than I can count and it’s only been two weeks. I’ve been locked out of the only way I could get into my main building (through the carpark and through the back door next to the garbage <3) when there was nobody around and I was stuck outside when there was a heatwave. I hate this place.

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schizophrenic horror fans are gods strongest soldiers

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Don’t involve me in discourse

16 year old mixed (Indian-Maltese) goth trans guy whose gay for other guys. I’m mad and disabled.

Health wise - Autism (msn), ADHD, severe anxiety which impacts my speech and ability to go out. FND, Tourette’s syndrome, Thalassemia beta, ectodermal dysplasia, anaphylaxis and some unknown GI issues. I’m a wheelchair, crutches and cane user.

Interests - Sharks, bats, goth music, especially post punk and death rock, tma, printing, graffiti, making patches, horror both in literature and film, and politics.

Please be aware I experience hallucinations and delusions, if I talk about specific ones I'll tag them with unreality, but sometimes I'm not aware and may post something that can trigger other people. I will always tag/delete them afterwards.

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A 10,000 person protest could flip and torch a few cop cars, but 100 people acting independently could cut the valve stems on 100 different cop cars and render them unusable and unrepairable

A 10,000 person protest could smash some windows of businesses and offices, but 100 people could superglue 100 buildings’ locks shut overnight

A 10,000 person protest could loot a few stores, but 100 people skillfully and persistently shoplifting could liberate just as much over time

1,000 people could blockade the construction of an oil pipeline, but it only takes 1 to turn the emergency shutoff valve on an existing one

100 people could camp in treehouses and prevent a clearcutting, but it only takes 1 to spike a few trees to drastically slow them down or even destroy their equipment

I’m not saying that mass actions aren’t important - no doubt, they accomplish things that couldn’t be done otherwise - but be aware of what can get done independently when those protests aren’t coming together. Get creative, stay active, direct action gets the good

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i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy

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Guys maybe if TWO NEO NAZI GROUPS SHOW UP TO CELELBRATE on “Australia day.” Maybe there’s something wrong with that! Maybe you should look at why neo nazis are celebrating this so strongly and realise how fucked up that day is!

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The Distortions

w/o effects ⬇️

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Thinking about how the narrative of The Magnus Archives can be traced in the pattern of Jon’s scars, the way the apocalypse was triggered by the marks that had been carved into his skin, a legacy of violence and trauma.

Thinking about how Gerry was torn from death and kept as a tool long after his heart stopped beating.

Thinking about how Daisy tried to cut ties with the Hunt, only to experience withdrawal and starve half to death.

Thinking about how Melanie was forced to mutilate herself to escape the Eye’s ownership.

Thinking about TMA as a story about ancient and omnipresent concepts; embodiments of fears and uncertainties that both directly and indirectly enact violence against and exert ownership over (primarily queer) bodies.

Thinking about how, despite all of this, there are moments of joy. The characters laugh and talk and smile and fall in love. And if some die alone, even more die together.

Thinking about how, against all odds, against incomprehensible forces of violence and terror, against the end of the world, some of these characters do the unthinkable.

They survive.

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sometimes people talk about eventual disability+ the fact that anyone can become disabled to act like disability is some sort of great equaliser. like. no it's not lmao. rn there are disabled people living radically different lives from one another with significant differences in their situations, even with the same diagnosed disability and possibly even with the same symptoms. if anything disability is a stress factor on every other inequality that exists in ur life

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slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

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B12 shots are truly the best of the best (those and an iron iv. Magic feel better juice)

doctor injected me with the mysterious feel better liquid

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Idk, I have autism, most of my friends have autism, and none of us have ever done nazi shit. It's so bizarre when privileged white people with autism always have "being extremely racist" autism but no poc with autism ever seems to have that. I don't think it's your autism I think you're just a horrible racist.

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Lesser long-eared bat pup, via

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I just wanna stop throwing up forty times a day :(

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I have a haircut! Yippee!

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Maybe I’m an old man but goddamn, these vampires with blood dripping down their chins–that’s your food!! THAT’S YOUR FOOD!! Close!! Your!! Mouth!! You think some asshole slobbering chicken noodle soup or yogurt or clam chowder all down themselves would be sexy??? What makes you any different, you sticky-stained slackjawed screwball??? Close your mouth!! Use a napkin!! And for godssakes stop looking so smug, like, “Oooo, I’m a creature of the night look at what sustains me” yeah uh huh a fucking lack of basic hygiene is what I’m seeing and it is not impressive!! At all!! My nephews are three years old and they drool less than you do!! You’re how many centuries old?!?! ACT LIKE IT