And what did it feel like when you knew you were coming out of it?
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I don’t think that long… I have residue thoughts though.
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Took me 33 years. When I knew for sure it was getting better, I cried in front of my pdoc. Cause I was so overjoyed.
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A few weeks. Felt better once back to reality.
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A matter of days. First jolt of Haldol helped, then daily medication.
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2 months, roughly. That’s how long my psych ward stays were.
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My first dx was “major depression with psychotic features”. They put me on Trilafon. I think Trilafon is an antipsychotic, but not a major tranquilizer. I gained some weight on Trilafon, but that was probably because of the amount of food they gave us at the hospital. There was always a box of donuts out, and the food was rich in the cafeteria. Trilafon did stop my delusions and hallucinations, but when I left the hospital they came back. Trilafon greatly decreased my physical endurance, but not nearly as much as the major tranquilizers they put me on later in my treatment.
A couple years.
I went from “woohoo I have psychic powers” to “OMG I have the world’s worst mental illness, my life is a wreck!” to “oh well, I might not be able to work but it’s better than jail.”
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4 months something… that’s how long i was hospitalized each time…
Laugh out loud! 151515151515
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I’ve only had psychosis once, for about a week or two,
when I was off my meds. psychosis is full blown losing your mind.
why is this word used so much?
Usually a few days but my medicine maybe isn’t working or something still having symptoms despite med increase
It stopped after one month and a couple of weeks after hospitlalization i still felt i was communicating with demons at the time then i realized it was the illness all that time i felt like in the end of a movie or tv show
So when the meds kicked in, you had insight to realize how false your thoughts were?
They put me on meds during that whole time i stopped hearing voices but i still believed in bizarre things and i thought they gave me a psychotic disorder diagnosis to protect the people behind my suffering but i guess the meds did their job i accepted i was psychotic after that whole time.
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Two weeks for the first episode and 6 weeks for the second episode.
Felt shocked at the end and glad to be back to reality.
Hoping not to have a third episode, but am keen to try medication reduction and stopping again, hopefully with out a relapse
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If it’s ok to ask, Did your meds take you out of the episodes?
Yes they did. Feeling completely normal now, except for a little sedated from the Olanzapine
About a couple months.
Couldn’t do it without CBT tho.
It took me a month. I knew the medicine was working when my thoughts started making more sense and my outer sense of self was being put into less question and assumption of my existence or reason for my every action…