#caffeinated hallucinations

[schizodiaries]

Q for you and any other fellow schizspecs that want to weigh in: do y’all hallucinate more after consuming caffeine? whenever I drink coffee I have way more hallucinations and illusions but idk if it’s just me

It’s funny you bring this up, because I actually just woke up from a nap after drinking a red bull lol. Caffeine seems to have little to no effect on me. It doesn’t give me energy, it doesn’t make me jumpy, and fortunately, it doesn’t affect my symptoms at all. To me, caffeinated drinks are just like any other beverage: a tasty liquid for me to drink when I’m thirsty.

I remember shortly after my first psychotic break, my psychiatrist strongly suggested I avoid caffeine. According to him, may worsen anxiety and psychosis. Clearly, I did not heed his warnings, as I still enjoy the occasional iced coffee or energy drink. But it doesn’t surprise me at all to hear that your symptoms flare up after consuming caffeine. I imagine that would be the case for most people with psychosis, and I’m sure my psychiatrist warned me against caffeine for a good reason.

Any other psychotic people or schizospecs care to share your experiences with caffeine? Feel free to respond in this post or send an ask!

[souvlakicocaine]

can u believe 19-20 yr old me was drinking TWO 5hr energies PLUS 3 ESPRESSOS every single DAY. I honest 2 god think cocaine would have been less detrimental

[headslikekites]

I don;t know if there are any fun promptlists around this year so I've just decided to post a daily mspaint sketch. rules are nonexistent it can be as shitty or as good as I feel like making it. here's is my first one

[heartshattering]

5 AM

Just me and my overactive mind facing the nighttime again 🙃

[thesummerstorms]

listening to a dramatic playlist with no thoughts in my head except annabeth disdainfully looking someone in the eye and saying 'my mother is the goddess of war''.

who what when where why are all undetermined and i can't think of a canon reason for it

it's just what the dramatic music says happens

[urineedward]

drank caffeine and i don’t usually have caffeine because when i have caffeine it makes my brain weird and so now like jemaine is rotating in my brain as a 3D image

[straightlightyagami]

I’m slightly less scared today than the past few days but the all encompassing feeling that I am being Watched and that They Are Going To Get Me (this time it’s in general and not being convinced specific people in my life are going to kill me like on some other occasions) does not go away. it constantly feels like there is someone standing behind me. or just present nearby. Ominous in general. my partner tried to talk me down from it and managed to convince me to sleep for a bit but the thing does not go away. Like what do you even do to make this better? Does anyone have any idea?

[dwtdog]

Dream invites George to stay with him in his condo by the beach bc George lives further inland and is going out to the beach all the time collecting specimens so he casually offers him his spare room as if he isn’t secretly hoping George ends up in his bed

dream standing on the roof of his own rented house drilling a hole in the roof right over georges bed so he can be like oh man that sucks :/ guess we'll just have to share

[sneak-a-cat]

buzzing and shaking and frothing at the mouth rn i am drinking 2 cans of cold coffee at 1 am, i am going to either clean my room (as i hope i will) or stare at a wall for hours until i pass out 

[pulsar-ray]

Dear god make the schizophrenia go away NOW

[cithaerons]

my sensory system has been doing the most insane things lately. crazy how extreme stress (watching football) affects you.

[glynjohnsfurcoat]

put down the chat gpt. consume too much caffeine and nicotine and write a paper that you barely understand while you approach hallucination territory from too little sleep and too much raging. engage with academia in the way god intended

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

The Research Notebooks of Satyendra Sunkavally, page 31.

[tentativearsonist]

you can't research stimulants without samhsa showing up

[that-jack-kline-bestie]

I’m catastrophizing and I almost feel high like was I drugged? This is almost like when my tolerance suddenly dropped hugely and my adderall dose became way too fucking high but it doesn’t feel like everything is blue and my veins aren’t cold so it’s probably not meth lmao. But im catastrophizing which is what anxiety does especially when you’ve drank too much caffeine and not enough food sooooo

[straightlightyagami]

i was having insomnia for the past few weeks so i kept falling asleep in class for a moment and then waking up and so on. but the issue wasn’t even so much that as the fact that i basically ended up having auditory hallucinations because i couldn’t tell apart what i was hearing outside and what i was hearing in my head. at least i actually knew all the stuff from my math classes already and i also wrote down everything they wrote on the board during lectures so i do have that information