u/Admirable-Main-4816

I really struggle with sensory needs and an Inability to handle change. This makes me very stressed and overwhelmed and makes me have seizures and meltdowns.

Does anyone else not go outside ? Or if they have to go out they go with someone else ?

I like my safe place and stay there otherwise its really overwhelming.

Does anyone else here suffer with physical symptoms during depression ? Suddenly I feel so heavy and exhausted from the simplest activities. Even though mentally I dont feel as depressed I do physically and im housebound.

Hello..

I need to spend a lot of time in a dark room with the curtains closed.

If I dont I get really overwhelmed and start getting freaked out and extremely uncomfortable.

I am trying to work with my therapist to do behavioural activation to help my depression but its not working cause of my autism.

Hey guys

I am suffering with severe depression and moderate autism. My therapist has told me to gradually re introduce things into my life again, like basic self care, but even the slightest activities overwhelm me , make me cry, and severely stress me out.

I have no idea how to manage this and im looking to see how others manage it

Hey guys.

I was wondering if those with bipolar show mania differently?

I have all the typical signs and even psychosis but I dont get the pressured speech or excessive talking. I still speak in quiet normal monotone no matter what the situation is.

Is anyone else this way?

mine was 14, i grew up in a highly volatile and dangerous home and my brain broke. i was severely depressed for two years. didnt leave my room, left school and was very suicidal. ever since then i fall into regular depressions.

I have one manic episode a year, I have mostly depression with psychosis most the time.

I have spent the last 9 months in psychosis after a bad manic episode left me in debilitating depression.

How are people functional with bipolar?

I also have bad cptsd and I cant function

Seems every day lately im getting calls to manage my mental illnesses

How do people cope with all the appointments and calls

Ill go first. About a year ago I quit a great job cause I thought monty don was speaking to me ( a celebrity gardener) and he was telling me to pack all my stuff, throw it in my car and move 400 miles away to start my magical business up.

I threw away 5,000, lost a job, nearly lost my house and nearly lost my partner. I also got a tattoo.

After that I crashed hard into depression and ended up in a psychiatric ward cause I thought the world was gonna end and it was my fault and people were gonna kill me.

A rough ride but thats how I was diagnosed and put on meds.

I was just diagnosed with bipolar with psychotic features and im really scared. Is there anyone else whos diagnosed ?

I have bipolar with psychotic features and ive heard voices since 2020

My voices started as whispers and now they say short sentences.

Does anyone else's voice have this same progression ?

i have been living in psychosis for 9 months maybe even 12 if we include the build up, it started off with paranoia and an obsession with protecting myself from radio waves and boats watching me (im coastal) it escalated and i ended up thinking the army was after me and trying to control my mind so i put tinfoil up on all my windows, i lived with foil on my windows for months and i didnt leave my house once, i heard voices telling me to walk into the sea which i did and thats how i ended up in hospital.

its taken a year to find the right medical help and meds but im mostly out of it now, i still cant shake the fear that i have a chip in my head and thats how they are calling me all these horrible things.

i think im getting better in that regard but im suffering badly with lack of motivation, depression, exhaustion.

i just needed to get this off my chest, thanks for any who read it

Hey guys, I have autism and I get overwhelmed at the slightest tasks, especially brushing my teeth.

When I get overwhelmed I have psycogenic seizures and I've been having a lot of them lately.

I spend 14 hours a day minimum in bed.

I was diagnosed with this in the UK but not really sure what it means

I have for the past 8 months had foil up on all my windows to stop people spying on me and to try and stop the voices from the chip in my head.

But the past month I have took it all down. I see this as a small victory and largely down to a massive increase in antipsychotics.

Ive also had a decrease in voices but cant shake the belief that I have a chip in my head as part of some experiment.

But im getting there with meds.

Just wondering what others experiences are ?

Ive just been diagnosed schizophrenia and I've been on olanzapine 15mg for 3 months and its drastically reduced my psychosis but I still have voices.

I was wrongly diagnosed as bpd for 5 years before I was diagnosed as bipolar and hospitalised twice.

I really hate the health system and psychiatrists who missed this for years.