Some of my family and friends said i scare them sometimes about the stuff i talk about. Mostly when i was delusional. I remember telling my fam about the stalkers that can mind control people and do other things like astral project. They got spooked anyways, i guess they didnt realize what i had been dealing with at the time. The stuff ive learned from using the internet, my old naive self, now i finally understood their are real life horrors lurking the internet and it scares even me. I often think about the place i used to browse, its known for stalking people until they commit suicide. Thankfully i survived the onslaught of the meanest, evilest people in the world and have only come out with minor schizophrenia from the whole ordeal.
Tbh i was very lost and rarely used message boards or anything 5 years ago. These days im embracing it and going on dating apps and meeting people. I used to be so afraid of being stalked, and i did get stalked because i say weird, “quirky” things. Ive learned it isnt the end of the world, for myself anyways.
Once i stopped using those forums, they finally left me alone after about 6 months.
Oh yeah i think i scared them when i started talking about the universe. I said to my fam “were the truth seekers of the universe, and thats what we were placed here to do. To explore the cosmos and figure out what it all means.”. Now that i think about it, i was just soap boxxing lol.
No. I tend to pass as neurotypical and my psychotic depression seems to go on and off with remission. But that doesn’t mean that my psychosis is less than others.
Back when i was majorly psychotic during my first episode i terrified one of my good friends with stuff I talked about. But she had undiagnosed psychosis at the time too so she believed everything I talked about and that’s why she was so scared.
Only when I get my monsters, talk about past lives, smoke cigarettes, not change clothes, and not cut my hair. In 10 years, no ones said anything to me in person just online in minor ways. I was told by doctors I pass as normal…
Occasionally. I have bi-polar as well. When manic I have frightened co-workers as well as my wife with my rage outbursts. It normally at a tissue or ink pen cap or some other irrelevant item.
As I could never harm another person, then thinking that I could caused further mental struggles. So you could say I accidentally scare people.
I scared my presz friends on fb and they won’t talk to me anymore, many deleted me and some blocked me. I had over 800 fb friends, now 144 mostly family. I wrote nonsense and stupid stuff when psychotic, I wrote that I am the next and last Jesus who will replace Hitler, that Germans will protect me from jews who want to kill Jesus, that I make miracles, cure cancer, that all presidents are clones and controlled by illuminati, we need to fight the illuminati, etc
I am just strange but I don’t think I scare people. Yesterday I did think I was asleep and needed to die in the dream to wake up. That may have scared them but they didn’t say so (working on my meds with my doc already).
But generally, I’m just odd. I’ve gotten ok with it because I’m very optimistic also. I have some friends but I don’t need many.
If your delusions are scary to them then ask them how they think you feel You are ok and enough JUST how you are. They can learn to empathize rather than internalize.
People can’t normally tell when I’m psychotic other than me being a lot quieter. Though when florid I get a bit incoherent and me not making any sense made my mom cry a lot.
@Air moms cry for their children for so many reasons. Sometimes love just comes out of our eyes. Don’t think you caused it because that probably wasn’t the case. It was probably liquid empathy.
When i have an episode of depression or psychosis, my face is stiff and rigid and i have a staring gaze and people get scared, even the last Pdoc was frightened of my gaze.
Yeah I completely understand, I don’t have a lot of friends due to the fact that I’m a weirdo when it comes to talking. I do sometimes think they don’t care at times, my family, but they do after a while.
I scare people off by my scars and agitated state that, i’m always in.
Yes I scare my husband when I get hypomanic and run and dance around, and laugh and talk nonstop. Once recently he wanted to call his mom to take me to hospital but I told him I will take extra meds and that helped.
My husband has temporal lobe epilepsy and sometimes gets post ictal psychosis. When he gets paranoid I get scared and sometimes I believe in his delusions too. I tell him naaa it’s not how he says it is but I get scared it is true all the same.
Like once he said there was a car following us. And other times he said people are putting a curse on us and I believed him even though I didn’t want to. And that his family are out to get him. I believe that too - even when he’s back to normal and doesn’t believe it anymore.
I am a pushover and people want to dominate me and supress me and bully me and hate me .
I’m not the type to usually get respect nor fear.
I’m very peaceful so there’s no need to fear me.
I feel that I’m in invisible restraints and a choke collar so I guess that’s not good for me and why be scared of someone in restraints.ha ha ha ha ha I try ignoring it .
who put me in restraints?was it my dog or my family?
I hide everything as best as I can. Psychosis is dealt with now I am on board with treatment.
I guess I probably do scare mental health professionals. I am too honest with them, especially the helpline.
I tried to OD a few months back, and ended up nearly being admitted to the psych ward, but I got out of that one and they let me leave accident & emergency. I am not sure what happened. I bought a bottle of red wine for no apparent reason, and drank it with loads of sleeping meds and tried to die.
I assume I should be grateful that the person I spoke to earlier on the helpline raised the alarm as my wish would have been fulfilled
You are ok and enough JUST how you are. They can learn to empathize rather than internalize.