Does anyone else feel guilty for what they were like in a psychotic episode afterwards?

Health and Recovery
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I do and sometimes it eats me up inside. I cant see certain people anymore because of it.

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i feel very guilty
my episodes were very traumatic on my friends and family

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Nah I don’t feel guilty, I never hurt anyone, but maybe some people were put in an awkward situation, but that’s nothing to feel guilty about.

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Nope. I can’t help that I was sick in the past. I would feel guilty if I was able to take measures to improve my health and avoid psychosis, but failed to. Anything following from that would be on me.

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Yes, I do… I hurt my family very much…
Refused too many time to be hospitalized, and declined all three years…
They didn’t know what to do…

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I feel guilty for believing my hallucinations and having delusions. It was about the neighbors. I wish I could go back and change that.

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I feel so guilty it really doesn’t make life easy …because I’m constantly worried id do that again

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nope, I did things I used to feel really bad about but truth is, I wasn’t myself…so there’s that.

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Yes I feel guilty, because it often happens when I don’t take my meds properly

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I should say I had problems with the neighbors because of my hallucinations and delusions. I got in trouble for it too. I wish I could change it. It’s okay though. It’s almost 7 years in the past.

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No, I don’t really feel guilty. I just didn’t like switching AP’s and recently having other meds interact with my Abilify. I just glad when the delusions and hallucinations stop.

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shame more than guilt

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I feel like a first class pratt

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I’m angry and ashamed with what my mother had to see and endure while me being psychotic. She didn’t deserve going through with what I did.

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Yes, I feel a lot of shame and guilt about that. Especially since I didnt and dont take medications all the time - though severe trauma around meds did play a role in that…i’ve had terrifying responses that were ignored by psychs and a close loved one died of (other) medications and left four young kids behind. I’ve walked around running away from meds in delusional panic for quite a while after that.

Guilt tends to come up in waves. In other periods I block it, because if I really think about all that happened and how this impacted others, I feel so bad that I can’t be there for my loved ones now. And they would not be helped by that. I was never violent, but they were hurt in other ways. Like by their worry about me and me not being there for them and being unpredictable.

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Big time but not anymore i have no control over anything but the present and future

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Yeah, I was polite and cooperative. I really regret that.

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Yes, some of the things I did were pretty bad. Nevertheless I still think people need to be accountable for the things they did to me. I believe that the scales tip in my favor. And if people have really done nothing wrong to me, they should be welling to confess what they did in a binding legal forum.

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I’m ashamed that I’m told I’m mentally very ill. But I haven’t harmed anyone so that’s my saving grace.

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I repress it all and pretend I’m normal. Every now and then I remember something incredibly embarrassing I did while delusional and cringe a bit.

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