#actually psychotic
Dude one thing I never hear people talk about trauma is that it can rob you of your discretion and individual decision making skills. I’m so afraid to trust myself making life choices that I have a crew of people I ask and legit many of them are idiots who always make me doubt my instincts. Someone gaslights you and you learn how to doubt your own mind. This goes quintuple for those who have experienced mania, psychosis, disassociation or any other mental illness mind alternated state. I am getting very tired of the feeling of asking others for permission and advice. It’s taken a million years to get to this point but I know my own mind and I know what I need from my life.
my stupid mentally ill brain is always like: if u make it 3 days without sleeping u win
like win what? psychosis? girl chill
Me: *hears something weird*
Me: omg Did you hear that??
Person in room: Hear what?
Me: *remembers I hallucinate*
Me:…
Me: Never mind
((overbearing & misinformed nuerotypical voice )) “So like, multiple personalities?! What are they like?? Can you control them?? *gasp* can I meet them?!”
((smug nuerotypical voice)) “sweety,, CrA zy people don’t knoooow that they’re crazy sily goose”
((Obnoxious edgelord nuerotypical voice)) “I’M SOOOOOO PSYCHO TOO XD NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME”
((overbearing & condescending nuerotypical voice)) “Oh… :( you must be so troubled… poor thing… the Monsters Within. .. so haunted… you brave soul…. …”
((rude & arrogant knowitall nuerotypical voice)) “Well that explains _____”
((invasive & rude nuerotypical voice)) “Have you ever been to jail/a psych ward/etc?”
((scared & misinformed nuerotypical voice)) “Uh… are you… on medication? Are you, you know… stable?”
“it’s all in your head” yea that’s exactly where it is get it out of there
psychosis ≠ schizophrenia
psychosis does not equal schizophrenia
psychosis ≠ schizophrenia
psychosis does not equal schizophrenia
DONT REPOST / okay to rb if you are a csa victim/lost a child/struggle with an ED as well
Google search history called me out today
yall ever have those days when ur brain is like
hm… things have been 2 quiet lately…. 2 easy….. time 2 kick this up a difficulty level & go roguegobananasgob u c k w i l d
yall ever have those days when ur brain is like
hm… things have been 2 quiet lately…. 2 easy….. time 2 kick this up a difficulty level & go roguegobananasgob u c k w i l d
Bin seit einem Monat in der Psychiatrie ✌
Warum können wir nicht einfach alle Roboter sein? Dann würde es die ganzen Gefühle und Emotionen gar nicht geben.
Paranoid schizophrenia is a thinking pattern in which the rational conclusion to a myriad seemingly innocent situations, is that they are all happening because someone out there has an agenda to hurt you. Because your brain is specifically wired to recognize / project the pattern of malicious intent onto anything capable of causing even the smallest suspicion.
You hurt me so badly after always being so good to me that it made no sense. Now my mind is looking for traces of your actions in people passing me by on the street too closely to check my energy levels to report them to their higher authority who is waiting for just the right time to strike me down, and phones that ring in exactly the worst moment because someone is watching me with spyware, recording everything I do to ruin my rare moments of happiness because I committed a crime against the agenda of consensus reality and this is my punishment
My identity is nonexistent.
In all honesty, I’ve been questioning whether or not I’m a system since 2018. You’d think after a few years I’d know by now. I want to confidently say I’m a system, but I also don’t want to spread misinformation and turn out to have been f//king all along.
Join the People w/ Psychosis Discord Server!
If you have a psychosis, please do not be shy and join this server.
Text: you can still achieve meaningful goals with a psychotic disorder
You can achieve. It might not be what you originally intended, it certainly hasn’t been for me, but you can still achieve things worth doing and make a meaningful difference in this world even with a psychotic illness.
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Text: Racial discrimination in mental healthcare must stop
Racial bias in diagnosis in the mental health field is well documented (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274585/). Racial minorities, especially African-Americans, are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder, despite there being no genetic evidence showing greater occurrence of schizophrenia/psychosis in these populations. It is thought that these misdiagnoses occur due to clinician stereotypes and lack of cultural understanding. Unfortunately for the patient, this can lead to receiving medication that is not needed and the accompanying side effects, along with the stigma of a psychotic diagnosis. It also means not being treated for the disorder they DO have. Graduate schools need to do a better job at educating clinicians to work in a wide variety of cultural settings, because we are failing patients.
Hello all! May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I’ll be bringing you facts about schizophrenia and psychosis throughout the month. Today we have the global population statistic for schizophrenia, working out to approximately 38000000 to114000000 people worldwide. There’s a lot of us, and this is only schizophrenia! (Information taken from The Schizophrenia Spectrum 2nd Edition by Spaulding et al)
Text: psychotic people are not the problem behind mass shootings
Psychosis isn’t responsible for mass shootings—evil people are. Stop blaming a marginalized disability for a criminal problem.
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Text: there is systematic discrimination against psychotic people in the healthcare system
Psychotic people are discriminated against in the healthcare system. First thing that comes to mind is the lack of outpatient treatment options, the centers that were meant to treat de institutionalized psychotic patients in the late 20th century turned those patients away and treated non-psychotic patients instead. Few outpatient therapists working private practice know how to treat psychotic patients. Psychotic patients are often brutalized in mental wards, something many of us are intimately familiar with.
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Very sinisterly, having a diagnosis like schizophrenia or BPD can lead to your death through medical discrimination. Patients with psychotic disorders are likely to be denied organ transplants, which is in fact illegal but happens anyway (for example, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127379/). One must wonder how else healthcare neglect shortens our lifespans? There is rampant discrimination against psychotic people in healthcare, and it must stop.
Text: being delusional/paranoid is not the same things as lying
When you’re delusional or paranoid, you believe things that aren’t true. This can sometimes lead you to saying things aren’t true, but this isn’t the same thing as purposefully lying. A delusion or paranoia is a complex biological state created by a person’s neurology that is outside of their control, and the beliefs a person holds while under the influence of these mental states seem real. Any false information a person conveys during delusion or paranoia was not done so on purpose, so they should not be treated like they purposely mislead. Please, be understanding that delusions and paranoia can happen, and try not to judge.
Text: disability from psychosis isn’t laziness
Your impairment from your psychotic disorder is valid. Disability from psychosis is real and must be respected. Demand accommodation. Demand to be treated like a human being.
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Text: schizophrenia is not a character defect
You’re not a bad person for having schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is the result of faulty neurology, not faulty moral character. We are not lazy, violent, or in any way lesser because of our disorder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Text: psychotic people are worth the effort to treat
Psychotic disorders are harder to recover from than many other mental disorders, and part of that is due to a lack of treatment options. But part of the reasons there is a lack of treatment options is because psychotic disorders are viewed as harder to treat. It’s a never ending cycle. They’ll give us medications, which help many people certainly, but many psychotic people need therapy to see real improvement, I know I did. But there is no standard therapy for psychotic disorders, and many therapists are at a loss for as what to do with us. We need a standard schizophrenia/psychosis therapy like CBT/DBT/ACT, but in the meantime we need more therapists to be willing to try expanding their knowledge bases and therapy schools to include a greater breadth of illnesses in their curriculums.
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Text: respect psychotic people’s treatment decisions
Our treatment decisions are between us and our doctors/therapists. We might choose to seek input from you, but ultimately, an adult psychotic person’s treatment decisions are between them and their treatment team. Respect the choices made by a psychotic person in regard to medication and medication type, and therapy. It’s not an outsider’s place to comment, especially unprompted.
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Text: respect psychotic people’s mental and psychical limitations
Our limitations are not for you to test. While what a psychotic person may be able to do on the day-to-day might vary, their capabilities are for them to decide, not you, the outside observer. I’m my experience, I can go from okay to not okay very quickly when people push me, and I need people to respect me when I say “no”. People don’t like to do that, because they view it as “unfair”—well tough. Respecting and accommodating disabled people isn’t special treatment, it’s basic decency. My schizophrenia causes severe impairment at time and I need special consideration, and I’m going to demand it.
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Text: visible psychosis isn’t “ugly” or “weird”
Sometimes we have visible psychosis symptoms, like involuntary facial movements or talking to ourselves. These symptoms are looked down upon by the rest of society, but there is nothing wrong with these symptoms. Unobtrusive but obvious psychosis is not inherently harmful, and is not something to be ashamed of. You are not something to be ashamed of.
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Text: you don’t have to apologize for your symptoms
I sometimes find myself apologizing for my psychotic symptoms, and I’m trying to stop. There is nothing to apologize for. Psychosis is a medical disability, and as such we are entitled to accommodation. We have a right to have our needs met, as human beings and as citizens. Don’t apologize for being psychotic, we are not a proble
When I was in inpatient, no one had any idea how to handle a person with psychosis and trauma. I was just treated like I was being purposefully “difficult”, and nothing was done to help me cope with conditions I was in.
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I don’t consider giving me klonopin for a panic attack when it was prescribed to me for conversion disorder a proper treatment for a PTSD episode. Giving me medication when I wasn’t supposed to be taking in order to shut me up it isn’t proper care.
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Or the other hospital, sending me to my room and telling me to do breathing exercises when I was clearly on the edge of a breakdown from isolation, that wasn’t helpful either. Ignoring a patient’s needs isn’t treatment, and quite frankly I wish I could get my insurance’s money back, because I didn’t get much in the way of medical care.
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Creating stressful situations by messing up medications and not giving me prescribed pain medication on time, serving me food I had told them repeatedly I was allergic too, screaming at me, emotional abuse by staff, and other mistreatments are not conducive for anyone’s recovery. let alone a person with a complex trauma history. Hospitals can and should do better, but they have to want to.
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Text: psychotic people are not “broken”
We are whole as we are
Text: Maine isn’t “cute”—it’s a serious illness
Mania isn’t an aesthetic. “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” isn’t a thing. Mania is a serious medical condition that can require hospitalization, and in the form of mixed episodes it can lead to people taking their own lives. Mania is a common cause of severe psychotic episodes, Bipolar 1/ schizoaffective are no joke and must be taken seriously. Don’t diminish the severity of mania, please. ⠀
Text: psychotic people have the right to complain about abusive doctors
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If you’ve been mistreated by a doctor or medical staff, you have the right to complain. You don’t have to stay silent just because they might be more educated than you are, or are older than you. You have a right to respectful medical care, and if you haven’t been given it you have a right to say so. Leave the negative review if you want, really. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If the mistreatment goes beyond disrespect to abuse, you are not doing anything wrong by alerting the medical boards. You have a right to be protected from malicious doctors, even with a psychotic disorder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Text: psychotic people deserve to feel good about themselves
A lot of us struggle with self esteem issues, I believe some as a side effect from our illnesses but also from the stigma and mistreatment we face. We deserve to feel good about ourselves as much as anyone else, there is no reason we should not. We are not burdens and we are not lesser, psychotic people have equal worth to non-psychotics and we will always matter.
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Text: psychotic people deserve hope
Why don’t psychotic people have higher recovery rates? I want to know. Our recovery rates haven’t changed much since the late 1800s, and that really bothers me. Are treatments truly that ineffective? Why hasn’t more work gone into finding effective treatments for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (I think I know why)? Why is there no standardized therapy for psychosis yet? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
These are all major issues. The lack of research into schizophrenia and psychosis is disturbing. We need research into more effective drugs, drugs that won’t sedate us out of life and cause neurological damage. We need therapy designed for us. We need hope. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
