Do you see people’s facial expression /what they want to express more clearly and you can enjoy the things more and feeling you are living with other people in the same world/in coherence.
what do you think about losing touch with reality and getting back to it?
Man this is the most interesting subject in the whole forum!
Yet I die for going back to reality I feel like there is a better life out there just have faith and work from the unconscious to the conscious. I get afraid that I wont be able to act normally like other people… but that just an illusion so have faith …
why die for? do your friends think that you are back to yourself when you think you are really getting a clutch to the reality or is it just a delusion within ourselves ,
btw how do you go from the unconsicous to the consious ? and do u take any medication ?
Everything is just… different. It’s kinda hard to explain. The world seems brighter, but not in a hallucination way, and there’s no pit in your stomach, you feel closer to others, you have less of a desire to spend time thinking, and though you may still have some symptoms, you find that delusional ideas don’t stick like they used to. It’s liberating.
thanks…it is encouraging though i hv been very reluctant to cling on my medication as i know i have to take them for life time…and i will not be able to live without them when my body become very dependent to them…
Taking meds for life is okay, as is depending on them to keep you stable. Antipsychotics can’t make you high. Their only function is to correct something that’s gone wrong.
@Sardonic is right. Freedom from psychosis is very liberating. At first, when it’s gone, you can’t believe it and you keep expecting it to come back. But, after a few months, you start to believe it and you believe it’s your new “normal”.
Just don’t give in to the temptation to quit your meds. Because although you feel normal, you are not normal. You still need your meds.
This. Yes. And if you feel yourself slipping a bit, don’t wait until it gets worse just because you don’t think you’re sick enough. Psychosis is not a game. There’s no way to quantify how long you’ve got to be ill before losing insight. That voice that keeps trying to convince you that hitchhiking to Mexico in order to find the one who created God is only going to get more convincing, until you wake up one morning and think such an act is a good idea. Just do your best to know yourself, you know? Like, for me, the more chaotic and/or specific the delusional idea, the more dangerous it is.
I was high from the time I woke up until the time I went to sleep for 4 years. I didn’t know what reality was. I just kept going further and further down the rabbit hole until I ended up with a severe psychosis for a year. They gave me an injection of haldol in the hospital that brought me out of it. I was so far gone the doctors told my mom I’d have to be institutionalized. My prognoses was very poor.
I came out of the psychosis and started newer meds. I had a lot of demons from my past and I had to work it out for myself. It’s been 23 years since my last psychosis. I was able to work out the problems I had in my head. I came to peace with my past and moved on.
I have a pretty good grip on reality now. It wasn’t easy getting to where I’m at.