Obviously, we’ve all had the 6mo+ episodes. But on meds, we still have those phases almost like panic attacks of psychosis. I write this because I’m having a weird one currently where everything seems too slow in a patronizing and ominous way.
My lil ones usually last about 30 minites. What about you?
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Tough question really, been going on for years, even when healthier I start going back and wondering why things happened are they real, did I do it so it’s non stop really. I have got out of bed, smashed a phone cause I think it’s up to something, then gone back to sleep, kick myself in the morning but I live in a odd world
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Its hard to explain, I guess I’m constantly psychotic without medication, once or twice a week about an hour before I’m supposed to take my medication I become psychotic. It usually resolves when I take the medication, sometimes it doesn’t, then I have to take an extra dose of medication or I’ll be psychotic the whole day.
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It’s always too on and off for me to say. Plus my mind gets left so jumbled by it.
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My psychotic “episodes” last for years, a lifetime, because I was pretty much constantly psychotic, off and on, all of my life. It’s impossible to measure.
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For me psychosis is always there in some form, the meds don’t completely take it away.
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For me psychosis tends to last as long as it wants to and shows up when I least want it to.
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I totally understand that. Same for me. The meds dull it out, but they dont take it away completely. It’s like being haunted by it opposed to possessed.
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I’ve been psychosis free for about 2.5 years. I found a med (abilify) that worked for me. I still hate abilify though, but I’ve no choice but to take it.
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The psychosis attacks and lasts as long as it takes for someone to convince me to go to the hospital. It then usually only responds to a high dose of antipsychotics. After about three weeks the psychosis goes away and I’m left with bad depression and cognitive problems. Then if I stay medicated it usually doesn’t come back. The problem is med compliance because I can’t take the side effects of these meds. The atypicals are almost as bad as being psychotic imo
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a couple days to couple of months (3 to 6)
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Oh I forgot to mention though that I’m totally incapacitated by intrusive thoughts that are reminiscent of my episodes. They are non stop and I’m told I have PTSD
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It depends.
When I’m unmedicated I always relapse into fullblown psychosis. That lasts a couple of days until I’m so bad I’m hospitalized against my will and heavily drugged. Most of my psychosis then goes away within one or two days, last time a little more.
I now lowered my meds to a dose on which I’m having regular fleeting delusional thoughts. They last a moment, an hour, sometimes an evening. I am also aware that underneath the meds I hate myself and believe I’m going to hell. This idea is almost never fully gone, so it lasts forever.
On a higher dose I have no psychotic thoughts, but I also don’t feel, think or do anything all day at all. I am totally zoned out. So I prefer less meds and more delusions.
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Weeks to months. My manic episode lasted 3 weeks. My mixed hypomanic episode lasted about 3 weeks too. My first psychotic episode lasted 8 months. My second lasted about a month.
On risperidone I haven’t had a psychotic episode for about 2 years now. Totally makes up for the lack of libido.
I’ve had 3 episodes hospitalized anywhere from 5 to 19 days. Have always left the hospital delusional. Usually takes 2-3 months to get back to work. Still pretty shaken for awhile after I’m back to work.
Marian, about the “going to hell” belief, try religion, like Christianity, it’ll give you a feeling of safety.
I had that too, and religion, Sikhism, helped me conquer morbid fears.
Best wishes.
my psychotic episodes usually don’t end until the next day, after I manage to sleep. in fact, sometimes I just stop everything and try to get some sleep, whenever I start getting paranoid from my paranoid sz. after sleeping, I usually have more refreshed logical thoughts than before.
When I’m on meds I am very rarely psychotic but off meds I lose my mind. I was psychotic for a few months last time I was off meds. Not violent or anything like that, just out of touch with reality. I had a transit card so I’d go all around town sometimes talking to myself, often delusional and I’d walk a whole lot. Like 17+ miles daily, just wandering around smoking cigarettes. It didn’t happen all at once, it was more of a spiral.
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