hi. psychotic episodes and psychosis.
psychosis as in sz is a psychosis – but it doesn’t mean violent or anything. loss of touch with reality or something.
i feel like “they” are calling me a bad person when they say i have psychosis. it really hurts me.
anyone else?
judy
It does get annoying but one of the things with this disease is that your interpretation of reality can be skewed. Like I thought for sure that people were harassing me for a long time and I thought someone was stalking me. After being on the meds for a while I realize it wasn’t true. It is helpful to be skeptical of what you perceive if it is out of the ordinary. That being said it is very difficult in my experience to realize you are in a delusion while you are in it.
To me, a delusion and psychosis are different. I have a chronic delusion but I am still VERY aware of the reality the world lives in. When I become psychotic I break from that reality. It is above and beyond a delusion. I have my delusion every day, all day and I function just fine in the world. When I am psychotic (3 episodes in my life, now), I cease to be able to function correctly in the world and I have acted out in bizarre ways. My meds keep psychosis away (phew!) but I still have my delusion.
Yes. It would appear I constantly disconnect from reality. Internalizing like this tends to suspend time in reality. I may think I’m functioning fine, but it does not come across as a sense of normality to others. I just don’t function like the norm.
Psychosis has to be understood as different of nevrosis in the sense that more than the nerves, it is the psychism which is altered. This is old terminology and concepts.