Delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, disorganized thinking… do you know for yourself your not feeling well, so you can get appropriate treatment!?
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I’m actually well now so I couldn’t answer. But I can remember when I was first ill, everyone else in my life was saying I had psychosis, while I continued to believe I was going thru a spiritual awakening.
It took me a couple of years to fully accept my diagnosis, and about 5 years to accept that I needed treatment. Needless to say, I’m lucky I’m not dead or in prison
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When I was first I’ll I was unsure… it was like it could be a possibility… now that I’m medicated I can see where I was wrong… I saw a guy on YouTube who doesn’t take medication he trusts his pdoc enough to listen to him , when he or she is sick. I was in awe!
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I have a few “canary-in-the-coal mine” behaviors that clue me in that I’m going downhill but when I’m in the middle of a relapse i have a hard time accepting that I’m ill. If i start not sleeping or not eating then i know to get some assistance or take a prn med. Sometimes that’ll fix it, sometimes not…
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Fair enough man! The mind is a complex thing! Right?
I was in a narcotics anonymous meeting and someone said an insane person doesn’t know he’s insane. But that’s untrue. Sometimes we can be insane and have an idea about it. I have always depended on acting skills to fake it till I make it.
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Yeah, I can usually tell i’m on going towards psychosis
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Yes after many years of progress.
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In the heat of psychosis I very much doubt there’s anything wrong with me, still I accept treatment without much opposition.
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Always. Maybe I was misdiagnosed tho cuz I’m self aware
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I know Im ill because I hear voices delusions are hard to catch though
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No. My insight is the first thing that goes.
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I had a dream recently that I slipped into psychosis and was totally lost again. So I really just don’t know how it would play out.
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I can tell when I’m getting a little more psychotic. During my second psychotic break that lasted years I had some insight. I didn’t go to the hospital, but instead worked with my doctor. I did believe a lot of things were real though I knew I was psychotic the whole time.
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intrusive thoughts have me running to tell my wife about it…she talks me out of everything…lucky I’m married to a normal…she helps me a lot…like therapeutic almost…she has had tons of therapy with her own issues and so she knows how to cope really good.
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Yes, I have accepted that I’ll probably be on meds forever… I lose sleep, get sleep paralysis, voices get louder, get really irritable. Etc
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Getting worse means for me that my voices get louder and more present. I can tell and it’s usually a slippery slope from there.
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The tell-tale sign for me that I’m getting worse is my sleep. Too much, too little, waking up tired when I usually wake up alert.
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When I got sick I went to all common states: spiritual awakening, the chosen one, spy agent, drug emperor and of course super brain. I tryed to get help at the hospital but mostly for my delusional thoughts not really for treatment. It took 4 years, my job and my friends to truly starting to understand that I’m sick. My intrusive thoughts got me to throw a hammer in my windows. That was the wake-up call for me, I straight got into hospital and I took and wanted that help. Now with medication i am almost symptom free 
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