It’s incredibly frustrating. Whenever I think I’ve recovered it rears it’s ugly head again and again.
If your working it’s like working TWO full time jobs. One to make money that’s 40hrs a week and one that’s 168hrs a week that your constantly monitoring your own brain
Paranoia: thinking everybody is a threat thus causing a constant state of fear and mistrust. You can imagine how this would get in the way of normal interactions with people.
When I was psychotic it seemed to me that I was the reasonable party, and everyone else was being unreasonable. I think a lot of sz’s feel that way when they’re psychotic. I felt like I was being attacked, and I would do or say things to try to scare people away from me. In my case, I wasn’t on the beam, and I didn’t know I wasn’t on the beam, because I wasn’t on the beam.