I don’t think they ever really end until I take meds.
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I don’t think I was displaying psychotic behavior for that long but maybe psychotic thinking/thoughts. Or maybe I’m confusing anxiety/depersonalization/derealization aspect of my mental illness, with psychosis.
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psychosis is normally defined as delusions and/or hallucinations but of course there are things likes disorganized speech, catatonia and negative symptoms that are also often included. my psychosis normally lasts months.
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my last psychotic episode lasted 3 years before I was medicated. the only relief was sleep at night. now that im medicated I will occasionally have episodes that range anywhere from 1-4 hours.
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The last one I had lasted about two hours. It was intense and horrifying, I think it was around February of this year. Haven’t had one since, really hoping I don’t have another. Everything went crazy in my head, alarms went off, I felt panicked, the voices became demonic and started threatening me and telling me I was going to hell, I started getting rapid commands to harm myself, everything looked like a face or an eyeball and I ended up curled up in a ball on the carpet. My grandpa came over and watched TV with me until it went away… but honestly by the time he got there the worst of it was over. I just kept telling myself while it was happening, “this will be over soon.”
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Mine last from months to years. Luckily with a good med regime, they only last weeks or months, but it takes a long time to recover. When I am psychotic I have intense delusions and hallucinations that rule my life. I become very afraid.
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