#Psychosis posting

[speakingofpsychosis]

medication doesn't make all schizophrenia symptoms go away.

Just because we take an antipsychotic medication, it doesn’t mean all our symptoms disappear. Schizophrenia consists of positive and negative symptoms:

Positive symptoms are experiences or behaviours that the condition adds to your life, for example: auditory and visual hallucinations or delusions.

Negative symptoms are experiences or behaviours that the condition takes away from your life, for example: lack of motivation and emotion, flat affect (not showing emotions) and social withdrawal.

These symptoms can be very difficult to live with and very debilitating. The right medication can help us to recover some control, but the positive and negative symptoms don’t all just ‘go away’.

[captain-legarde]

Keeping my followers on their toes by saying batshit things without clarifying whether it's a joke or a genuine delusion of mine

[trans-axolotl]

i think i want to make some art about this actually. i think that would help me feel a little more settled about the angels right now if i could get them onto a page + let them know that i see them and that it's okay if they're angry and that i will put that onto a page for them and there will be proof and they will be believed. so that they can quiet down a bit and i can feel less overstimulated in the heat.

[octocurse]

people experiencing a delusion can still be skeptical or partially aware that what they believe isn’t accurate / isn’t true

[riondisease]

when i was at the mental hospital they told me i was developing psychosis. which is crazy like. my whole life i thought psychic people weren’t real, i didn’t know you could get medically diagnosed with that. guess i should get one of those crystal balls.

[calpalsworld]

oh man cal youre really starting to be toxic and not able to control your emotions, and its probably bad for your friends wellbeing and your own wellbeing, you gotta stop since you're probably just faking. ugh it is gonna be so hard to explain that youre faking mentally ill toxicity to your therapist

*the bald guy in a grey t shirt appears and then vanishes*

👀

[twisted-times]

It can also create a kind of echo chamber where the thing(s) that might’ve triggered the initial episode ALSO trigger panic afterward. People take for granted how much they can trust themselves. Especially if you don’t remember the episode or what caused it, you have to come to terms with having a part of your life completely locked away.

I think it'd be neat if during discussions about schizophrenia and psychosis more people made a point to mention how psychotic episodes themselves can be deeply traumatizing. because they sure can. experiencing a break from reality like that is traumatizing. delusions, even though they aren't real, are traumatizing. believing you're being prosecuted by God himself and not knowing how to cope with that just to later realize none of it was real is probably traumatizing. experiencing frightening hallucinations can be traumatizing. people talk about how psychotics suffer from their disorder but let's talk about why we do. and I haven't even mentioned the inherent trauma of living with a stigmatized disorder in a world where psychotics are despised and shunned and kicked out of homes. lets not forget that one.

[cryptidmads]

i found out i had psychosis in august and my brain hasn’t been doing well in the last 36 hours for Obvious Reasons - I’m not American but i have friends down there. If anyone wants to share strategies for coping/managing one’s thoughts and symptoms during times like this, i would love to hear from all of you. This can be like a masterpost for it

[johnlennonirl]

Here I am, posting something similar like the fibro post... this one goes out to my psychotic folks🫶

[speakingofpsychosis]

[oxfordcomma-alt]

WHEN DID I MAKE THIS POST

[captain-legarde]

Getting a residual surge of affection when I see statues of Janus until I remember "wait I don't even worship that God anymore, that was in a past life"

[thecorvidforest]

boy it would be nice to be able to google something related to personality disorders, psychosis, intellectual disabilities, autism, DID/OSDD, etcetera without finding majority articles that are like “how to deal with a person with X” “how to cope with your child with X” “how to spot someone faking X” “can people with X be cured?”

[ars3n1cc]

ughh why are my teeth so dull. they should be. fucking needles man

[chipinsolace]

So called “mental health advocates”: Mental health matters! You are loved!

People who have a psychotic disorder: oh thanks-

Same “mental health advocates”: LOL! Delulu is the solulu! I wanna dye my hair so bad THE VOICES are LITERALLY TALKING TO ME! Ugh I hate you I’m in your walls/j! It’s giving schizoposting! No girl this is spiritual psychosis, Hope this helps! I hate this guy he’s so psychotic.

:(

[interstellarstorms]

I’m at work for 15 more minutes and I’m physically tired and emotionally exhausted and my psychosis is having a moment and I need to go to the bathroom really bad and it’s all just so overwhelming and I just want to take tomorrow off work but I kind of need the money