I used to be very anti-psychiatry and I am still rather critical however to keep horrible psychosis and the psychiatry out of my life I decided to keep taking low dose AP.
However, zyprexa gave me insuline resistance. I am switching to abilify, but I am very curious to which medication was the least worse for you?
I believe jails have showers and they give inmates clothes to wear every day. But I read many psych wards don’t have showers and staff not giving you clothes.
Why are psych wards so bad and worse than jails? In jails they give you toothbrush and clothes every day but psych wards many don’t give you toothbrush and clothes every day.
Also how do you wash your clothes in psych ward?
My sister experienced delusions for months, like celebrities were spying on her & smear campaigning. She had no insight & still believes that. We changed her meds & doctors as soon she started having bad side effects.
But now she has quit APs completely & won't see doctor. I'm in a bad financial situation & have 5 mental disorders myself. I want to support my sister but she starts sending me abusive texts & calls 20 times out of nowhere (she has accused me of harassing her during one of her episodes few yrs back, so I just let everything slide).
There's no disability option for her in my country, no other caregiving support, emergency services, etc. I've accepted that she's an adult & I can't force or convince her to get help anymore. What do I do in this situation?
Someone else wrote this. It describes my experience taking the dopamine and serotonin blocking antipsychotics well.
"The experience was not merely unpleasant sedation or a collection of manageable “side effects.” It felt like a pharmacologically imposed dismantling of my mind. My thoughts became slower and less substantial; my emotions, motivation, curiosity, pleasure, spontaneity and ability to connect with other people were profoundly suppressed. Tasks that once came naturally required enormous effort, while much of my inner life seemed inaccessible.
The most terrifying part was remaining conscious enough to recognise what I had lost. I could remember being mentally alive, but I could no longer reach that version of myself. It was like being trapped behind thick glass: awake, but cut off from my emotions, intelligence, personality and capacity to participate fully in life. My body continued to exist, but the faculties that made existence meaningful felt chemically restrained.
“Lobotomy-like” is the closest description I have—not necessarily as a claim that the drug literally performed a surgical lobotomy, but because the resulting emotional flattening, cognitive impairment, passivity and loss of initiative resembled what people associate with one. The symptoms also felt brain-injury-like: impaired concentration, memory, planning, speech, motivation and emotional responsiveness. Whether or not those effects constitute permanent physical damage, the lived experience was one of being neurologically incapacitated.
Calling this simply “tiredness,” “low mood” or “reduced motivation” does not capture its severity. It was an enforced alteration of consciousness and personality—an experience of watching myself disappear while being unable to stop it. That loss of mental autonomy was frightening, disabling and traumatic."
Might be helpful if anyone is trying to describe how terrible being on antipsychotics are.
Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well
In my teenage years I took A LOT of lsd tabs and drops and other psychedelics like magic mushrooms, dmt, changa, 4-HO-MET, 4-HO-MiPT, 2cb, micropoints and mescaline and everything was fine, I enjoyed so much and were the class of drugs I preferred the most
I started to become obsessed with what’s the fabric of reality, what’s behind the curtain that we cannot perceive, there is truly a matrix? And so on
On 2019 I took half of a tab of lsd in a psychedelic party from Goa Gil (if you know, you know) and I genuinely don’t know what happened but I assume it was the music and my obsession over the themes I mention before but I started to feel incredibly weird in a really bad way.
I looked at my friends and they didn’t seem real, I could recognize their faces but the connection I had with them and that escalated for everyone. I was thinking they were part of a huge plan of distracting me from discovering the secrets of the universe, that they were part of the hidden secret and they were not really my friends. I was thinking the radio was sending me signals and I was communicating telepathically with the higher consciousness of the universe and I was the only one who could listen to that.
Everything became so intense that I run away from the party without telling anyone, I out myself inside of a car and until today I didn’t know who drive me out of there and which bus stop was there.
I don’t know how or when I get home but I put 4 Xanax in my mouth and I slept.
The problem was when I woke up I still didn’t recognize anyone has real, neither my parents but I had to pretend I believed in the reality I was living previous the acid.
Short cut basically I stayed out of touch with reality for 1 year at least, I was thinking The Higher Consciousness was communicating with me through other peoples body like one time at lunch break a stranger was playing chess with me and I was genuinely believing I was playing chess with God lol and the radio and tv shows were speaking for me the all fucking time
Somehow after a long time everything vanished and I was back to normal
My question now is, if this happened one time even if I did it “thousands” of times prior to that, what are the chances of this happening again? If I take 1/4 of a tab and I have olanzapine with me if something starts to be a little too much and I take it the psychosis go away? Or it’s not strong enough to cut the psychosis from the acid?
Sorry the long post
It’s been about 9 days since he dove deep in psychosis. We have been dating 2.5 years. I tried to help him as much as I can but it’s wild. I love him so much and he was the love of my life but now I’m not sure I can be around him. He has gone completely nuts and I’m someone who has shown a lot of compassion since the switch. I’m going to step back for a while even tho I love him and miss him so much. I don’t know if a relationship will be possible with him. I’m heartbroken.
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Curious about everyone’s thoughts on this? I actually think it was the husband, but the media/people are so ignorant to psychosis and what it entails.
I’ve had weed induced psychosis twice with both times landing me in the hospital for a month and trust I had no control over myself.
Last year i had stress induced psychosis. Since being switched from olanzapine to ariprazole i struggle to enjoy cannabis and have frequent anxiety attacks, paranoia and dizziness. A few times i have thought i was going to faint and one day i was sure i was getting psychosis again. I genuinly can't smoke it now without being scared, people even tell me i looked scared!! but gonna struggle going cold turkey. Has anyone else had this and managed to quit? How did you feel?
I was horrible during it, i said to my mum i was going to shoot a kid on my street because i thought he was a demon in disguise, i hit my brother, threatened my sister with a knife. I feel incredibly guilty and have apologised for it all and they understand but i don’t feel any better about it.
I believe that when someone is born, they are born good and not bad right out of the womb, and for one to be whole they have to be able to have good and bad. Since most of us tends to be good, that leaves the bad part behind and less used, and we operate on goodness for our everyday lives. When someone suffers from psychosis, the hallucinations they encounter tends to be bad. Maybe it’s because we operate on the goodness for so long instead of badness thus when someone in this stage of their life suffers from this condition, the badness is being occupied by the hallucinations. Kind of like hardwired and forced to be bad.
I kind of came to this conclusion because I've had conversations with my hallucinations before( i know its not recommended due to it strengthens the neuros) on why you are being negative and hostile towards me and I said this is yourself. you are sabotaging yourself. yet the hallucinations still remain the same way.
What's your take on why the auditory hallucinations or autonomous voices likes to be so negative and hateful? I also thought about and maybe its because they can't do anything but think, but yet again if I'm stuck in my own head without the ability to live, I'd probably just be quiet and wait for it to all end.
As a connected story, psychosis doesn’t make sense. So l have learned this over 35 years to treat every episode or seizure as its own mini story. Connected they don’t make sense. Using this method they do…
I started suspecting that someone who I was friends with was one (I still think he is) and then I started believing that he was part of a secret society of psychopaths that were working together to suppress humanity.
Every time he doesn't have any, he punches walls and breaks stuff and sometimes even talks to people that aren't there. But when he gets weed, he's normal. But isn't weed a psychostimulant?
I used to smoke weed daily to manage but my family will no longer allow me since my psychosis. I miss feeling calm and relaxed. what are some things i can do instead?
I am American and was living in Canada with my wife, who is Canadian. We got married and built a life together.
About a year ago, she lost custody of her son after a mental health crisis led to her arrest. She was charged with uttering threats after our elderly neighbors recorded her screaming into a towel while her child was present. As a result, she has a no-contact order with her son.
Her ex was given third-party access during visits, and on one occasion at a McDonald's, he crept up behind her and said something that made her visibly terrified. I called him a stalker, and he left. Her family took his side.
Since then, she has fallen into severe psychosis—talking to herself, not sleeping, and becoming paranoid about our neighbors. She currently believes her son is dead and does not acknowledge that she is on probation or that a warrant is out for her arrest.
On April 8th, I had to call the police because she was in the bathroom screaming that our neighbors were going to kill us. She was clutching our cat so tightly it scratched her stomach badly. It took four officers to apprehend her. She was placed on a 72-hour hold but was released after about four days.
Not long after, I filed a Form 2 to have her vaulted again. She masked for the officers—calm, rational, in control—and they brought her back within two hours. Nothing changed.
I called for help multiple times after that—wellness checks, police, crisis teams. At least 15 times. Every time, she masked. They left. Nothing happened.
At home, things got worse. She would pry my eyelids open while I was trying to sleep. She turned off the circuit breakers while I was working. She cut her hands on broken glass during some kind of ritual with tarot cards. I cleaned her wounds, tried to keep her calm, begged her to get help.
It became impossible to work from home (I work in the tech field). She was waking me up, breaking things, and turning off the power. I was terrified of an arrest or a false accusation—being American in another country with no support system.
I tried to tell her I needed to leave, but she blocked the door and grabbed my arm. I left while she was sleeping, drove back to the U.S., and have been supporting her from a distance—sending groceries every two weeks, trying to keep her afloat.
She has also posted delusional content on social media—videos saying I abandoned her, and posts where she claims I am still in the building, on the 4th floor. She is looking for me in a place I am not.
After I left, I sent her a new phone to stay in contact—but she threw out the SIM card. I tried to reach her through the apartment building, but they refused to hand her a phone with me on the line, citing privacy laws.
She now will not talk to me at all.
The building has issued an N5 eviction notice documenting her behavior—unplugging sump pumps, turning on stove elements with nothing cooking, removing window limiters, throwing things off the balcony, screaming, and harassing neighbors.
She has also missed probation appointments and does not believe she is on probation. A warrant has been issued for her arrest.
I am terrified she will end up homeless or preyed upon. I have done everything I can, and I don’t know what will happen next.
If anyone has been through something similar, I would really appreciate hearing how you handled it."
Hey guys , so Ive been in a psychosis like 2 months ago, now since last month theyve put me on 900mg lithium (450mg at am and pm) 400mg xr quetiapin and 40mg pimpaperone for sleep.
Now since like begining of this month I progressively feel more and more emotional flat. The feeling of not getting excited not getting happy or sad, not getting annoyed just not touched from anything.
Now my question is honestly, from yalls expirience, could this be due to medication or the post psychosis?
p.s i smoked a lot of weed before my psychosis , now im 6 months into being sober but these symptoms just really started not too long ago.
Its hell really, if anyone can relate or just say their opinion (based on expiriences) I would really really appreciate it. ☺️