My diet changed dramatically when I was psychotic. I’m just wondering if anyone else had the same?
I became a vegetarian. I gave up milk, breads, cereals and all processed food. I couldn’t even eat sweet foods. What was your experience?
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All I ate was mustard for two and half months.
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When I was psychotic I walked out on my job where there was alot of meat I went vegan and started having concerns about the environment. Actually I wouldn’t call it vegan really I didn’t even know what it ment at the time but things went to the extreme and I thought I should be drinking only water because plants were living things and that the life form that I had within me would sustain me.
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What type of mustard?
Just a little joke. No disrespect intended.
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Haha colonel mustard 
I thought “they” were messing with my food, so would only eat at random take out places, my diet has been bad, I live not caring about living a long life.
I barely ate. Just had no appetite.
I just ate junk food for ages.
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Yes, I remember one time I was hospitalized for a real bad case of psychosis, and I couldn’t taste anything. Everything tasted bad. I couldn’t eat a thing. I remember the nurses were sympathetic and excused me from eating. I am grateful for that.
For 30 years, throughout my illness, I didn’t take very good care of myself. I ate out at restaurants a lot, and I ate a lot of junk food, like cookies, candy bars, donuts and processed food. I hardly ever ate any fruit or vegetables. I never drank water and I lived off of diet soda exclusively. Today, I honestly don’t know how I survived. I was fat, out of shape, psychotic and suicidal.
Today, I live in an assisted living facility and they feed me, drive me around, and keep my apartment clean. They take good care of me, and I am much healthier and happier today. I am slim, healthy and happy and my thoughts are clear. Finally.
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the opposite happened to me. I used to eat fast food a lot. but when I was in the psych ward, they gave me healthy food. and I was restrained in the ward for about a month. When I was sent home, my aunt gave me money to buy some fast food. After 3 bites of a fried chicken and 4 spoons of fried rice, I was somewhat choking and I couldn’t even finish the whole meal which was 4 chicken wings and fried rice. took a while to adapt back to my regular diet.
I ate what they had in the hospital.
One time, I was hospitalized for an extremely bad case of psychosis. The psychosis changed my sense of taste. I couldn’t taste anything, so, I didn’t want to eat. Everything tasted bad. I remember the nurse on duty understood and she excused me from eating lunch. I was very grateful to her.
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I just got really paranoid thinking everyone was trying to poison me. So all I ate was sealed items. lost a lot of weight. My doctor had them give me Ensure. Once I got over that things were normal.
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I also thought similar things 5713.
When ive been severely psychotic i usually stop eating and drinking and of course then get dehydrated which just makes me even worse.
I may not sleep either or not well if i do.
If im not coping but still hanging in there and douting myself etc through it i might act as care worker " go buy icecream" or have a nice coffee and sandwhich now" Really making myself eat when i know im prone to just stop.
I love 
food so for me to stop eating is a big deal.
Golly knows how dicsiplined i was to be muslim back in those (1 year) days and fast ramadan and also when i was vegan (8 months).
Shows i can be disciplined to myself.
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I got down to 7lbs 6 oz. in one month. Originally I was 210 and muscular. I wore a bonnet and diaper and did not leave the house for two years
When psychotic I don’t eat much. Kinda fast for days - too preoccupied to eat.
I eat when I am depressed though. Some people lose their appetite when depressed.
That sounds really tough. Do you leave the house now?
I lost 37lb since my psychosis began because of my diet change.
Yeah I lose my appetite when depressed. My psychotic diet was weird though, I was still eating but super fussy and nothing processed.
I still can’t have milk in my coffee and that started when I was psychotic.
I hate depression, hope you’re not going through it at the moment?
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No not depressed at the moment thanks. It is horrible being depressed.
Just reading about the dementors in the Harry Potter books. Jk Rowling said they were based on her experiences with depression.
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