‘living well with schizophrenia’ just posted a video on youtube that says psychosis is like dreaming.
i’m not sure i agree with the premise of the video. i mean, i guess it’s kinda similar, but only very loosely the same.
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I agree with this. This is the way I would describe it to someone who didn’t know what it was.
It’s like falling into a dreamworld while awake.
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I think it does feel a lot like a dream. To me anyway. It doesn’t feel real and I can’t remember most of it.
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Dreaming don’t hurt. Dreaming didn’t cause me to be hospitalized 10 times.
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Not really, my experience with hallucinations didn’t seem like a dream to me at all, but other people may feel that way, everyone is different.
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I feel like it was dream similar
I don’t think I have ptsd from it
If it had all been real I would have
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Yes. I’ve described it this way to my sister before.
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More like a nightmare.
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I literally just watched the first few mins, and turned it off.
Kinda got the gist of the theory, but disagree with it.
For me I associate dreaming with imagination, not akin to psychosis.
when i first got sz it was like waking up to a nightmare…it was like that for about 8 weeks…bloody awful experience…all i can say is that im grateful for having at long last found an anti psychotic that can help me…im now on 20 mg olanzapine and quetiapine 800mg…its a hefty dose but its better than being psychotic
yea same for me.. if it would be like a dream then it’s more like a nightmare. But i’m not so sure it’s like a dream.. it all felt really real to me..
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I agree a bit, yeap… But a dreaming with nightmares, yes 
… I was very out of touch with the reality, i was stuck in my head… But this kind of dreaming hurts a lot too…
It felt more like waking up. I never felt like it was dreaming.
Yes its living a bad and dangerous dream.
didnt really feel like a dream. it felt much more like a magical reality
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In the sense that dreams can be bizarre and strange and random at times, like bizarrely random, yes.
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For me its like my body doesnt wana repond propley.to anything.ts always in stress.stress stress,too much energy,and then bam paranoia starts again.its the same story all my life.
It’s like a nightmare that ends only when properly medicated. Then my memory of psychosis is all fuzzy and I feel like I’ve lost track of time.
my pdoc said schizophrenia was like dreaming while you’re awake…I agree…I totally didn’t wake up from being out of it until I was stabilized on meds…
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“didnt really feel like a dream. it felt much more like a magical reality”
well said 15151515
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