I see videos on youtube of ppl who filmed themeselves during psychosis, its scary. My parents told me I was scary when psychotic.
Depends on the person. Some are scary, some are funny (in a non-funny way), and some are just sad. There were all types in the psych ward and at the therapy groups. It was the wife-abusing dudes in the anger management classes who were the freakiest for me.
In mental hospital there was a lady yelling at me saying that I killed her kids. She freaked me out.
For me personally it depends on the patient. If they show no signs of aggression and no history of aggression I do not find them scary. So I guess by that logic I do not find people showing psychosis symptoms alone scary. A lot of times actually it can be funny to see, though that sounds horrible. But when someone’s crawling on the ground or running around singing eye of the tiger while talking about their moms saggy boobs it’s hard not to giggle sometimes.
Now speaking for the general population I think your average person does find psychotic people really scary. I say this because when I have a psychotic patient on the unit with non psychotic depressed or detox people, even if the psychotic person is in their own world and doesn’t bother anyone, people tend to be freaked out by them and become more anxious by them. I think that’s due to stereotypes that all psychotic people are dangerous. Psych hospitals actually try to keep psychotic people and depressed/detoxers on different units for that very reason actually.
I’m not scary when I’m psychotic. I pace, laugh out of the blue, gaze but I’m not aggressive.
I wasn’t. Unfortunately?
No one who is normal would take our illnesses seriously if we didn’t unnerve them with our behavior.
I’ve gotten pretty scary when I was psychotic before. I’ve gotten really offensive, too. I’m lucky I didn’t get my ass seriously whipped. I did get slapped down pretty hard by the police once when I was psychotic. They sprayed me with pepper spray, handcuffed me, slammed me face down on the ground, and put their knees on the back of my head and ground my face into the dirt after I had been pepper sprayed. It hurt like hell.
My whole world could be crumbling around me. And i mean serious delusional thinking and perception of a strange and foreign reality and no one would know any different. I am able to not act in derranged ways and keep my mouth shut about whats going on. Theres still a part of me that can interact on a normal level regardless of what im going through. People even seem to be more drawn to me. But that other part of myself im interacting with is not how i feel on the inside. Makes it hard to actually work through anything. But hopefully i could be scary if i needed to be.
It’s difficult to find the correct words trying to be assertive without being violent, abusive or aggressive while psychotic. I only got 30 min.as I have to satisfy my addiction. That is I want an addiction free life.
I turn into a child, when psychotic in away, so more pitiful than anything.
When i was at mental hospital i see couple of crazy pschotic and that make scary the hell of it.but some of them just funny
I don’t think I am scary. It has its advantages to be feared though.
edit: I do tend to stare sometimes so maybe thats seen as a threat
I’m much more scared than scary, I think.
i have nooo idea, all I know is that im scared
I think it’s natural for people to be a bit freaked out by abnormal behaviours or signs of an altered mental state. I’m sure most of us can remember being kids and feeling really uneasy when an adult in our lives got tipsy/drunk.
It’s the same feeling normal people get with sz folks. A natural instinct telling them something is out of the ordinary, making them feel wary and uneasy.
I get a little scared when seeing psychotic people too, I feel I can never quite count on them or foresee what they’ll do.
I was quite scary on my first psychosis. I’d go from screaming at everyone to crying hysterically to rolling around the floor to laughing to smiling in that cycle over and over. I was completely erratic.
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