I spent 22 and a half years with my dad and it has caused me to be hypervigilant to the ptsd because he was violent. Now I can picky up peoples energies like if they’re sad and sometimes what about. Or their bodynamic langauge. Even over the phone I can sense certain stuff. I think I’m like this because I had to anticipate my dad’s violence.
So are you hypervigilant or sensitive to people’s energies for various reasons?
Whats ur diagnosis…???
I think it’s intuition is a better word
I am very intuitive IRL
Yes that’s another way to put it. I just put that cause my psychologist said that was what it was for me.
Sounds like people I know. It’s not unusual…I’d suspect you think a lot and process a lot of information.
That isn’t a bad thing and it’s indicative of certain things.
Most schizophrenics I know think an aweful lot about stuff. A lot of it isn’t so important in the scheme of things.
Ptsd with psychotic features
I am. Hypervigilance is a symptom of PTSD.
That’s interesting because I have PTSD as well.
Okay …med has helping u up right …??? I am on rispridal i want to decrease my dose…
I think I’m generally really sensitive to things and quite fearful in general. I know that alot of ‘normal’ people could be able to do it but the reasons I do it is because of my dad. I’m not sz at moment but did have that diagnosis in the past. I don’t think all my psycosis in the past has anything to do with my ptsd but I’m not a doctor so yeah. I think they’re just clutching at straws.
In some ways yes but in others no. I think if you want to come down make sure you get pdocs permission.
It’s a long process. It isn’t done in a day. I see things in you that I’ve seen in others and myself…It will sort itself out!
I started out as psychotic depression, then BPD, then PTSD with psychosis, then schizophrenia. I think that’s the order. Either way, meds were the same regardless of label.
Same here. But I don’t know I think I’m just going to write down everything that’s happened to me in the last 2 and a half years (my first break). Everyone has different opinions and as hard as it is to admit I think I may have sz or Sza. But my psycologist says that I don’t have some symptoms that sz do and he told me about them. And I’m like inear my head shot I secretly do have that 
For example initiating tasks I find hard to do and he says I dont have that but I do. I didn’t say anything though cause I thought he might just think that I’m saying it to pretend.
At the moment I don’t believe I’m psychotic as you would know. But I do believe I have been in the past.
My advice still stands. I appreciate the opinions of shrinks over psychologists. I suspect the doctors have a particular view of your predicament!
It’s early still…you still present some symptoms that even to amateurs like me!
Relax. Do what you have to do and be honest with your treatment team!
Thanks @rogueone I apprecite your ineutral 
I don’t have PTSD but cuz of paranoia I used to spend a lot of unhealthy time watching people closely and trying to anticipate their movements. That hypervigilance lingers and comes back when I’m sick.
Yes so it may be a mixture of both. I don’t like people copying my body language I feel like they’re trying to read my mind.
That sounds alot like me. I started off with bpd then depression with psychotic features then bpd again then sz then ptsd with psychotic features but I don’t think it’s ptoday with psychotic features as I believe that the psychosis had nothing to do with the ptsd. I’m writing pdoc a letter about everthing that has happened
I think it’s not so much their energy I observe, but their body language and their voice. My mother was always upset about something growing up, so I learned to watch her every move so I could decide what I should be doing to make her less upset. Now, I do this with everyone. It’s exhausting.