Mine was like 1.5 year length,
Maybe a year.
I was feeling unwell from 2016 spring till 2018 summer, but the worst times were somewhere between 2017 spring till 2018 spring. Thats When I was two times hospitalised, and on 2017 summer I was not allowed for a whole summer to leave my house.
What about you ?
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In that period of time no one realized that you were in a psychotic state?
Whenever I had an outbreak, it went away with the medication, and when I stop it I don’t go back to a psychotic state, I have an outbreak within a few months. Each case is different.
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Well fist months, like from 2016 spring to 2017 winter my parents noticed that smth is wrong, but they didn’t wanted to accept whatever was happening or how to call it. I was saying to them that I am feeling quite unwell, but they thought I am just “pretending”
I was still capable of going to school, acting partially normal, so no one was very concerned. But on 2017 spring I had taken meth once, and then started acting reaally strange, that’s when parents understood that I really need to go to hospital.
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Overall I had a very long pre-psychosis time, when I was feeling unwell but to other people it was not very noticeable
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Three decades and counting.
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Mine is ongoing indefinitely. I fluctuate with connecting/disconnecting from reality or the reality plane. I wonder if that’s Dissociative Disorder. Don’t know. I know my Seroquel pill bottle used to say take for Psychosis. My condition doesn’t get better or worse, just stays the same.
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About 6 weeks after treatment 2 weeks before.
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I’m not really sure, because the line between psychotic and not-psychotic is a bit blurry.
Florid psychosis, with me being extremely frightened and sometimes catatonic, only lasts for a few days each time. I respond immediately to medication, within hours. And without medication I also can come out of psychosis in a few days, I have noticed.
There is this longer period where I have some milder delusional thinking, some ideas of reference, some paranoia, et cetera…it’s there on and off…and it is not exactly clear where truth starts and delusion ends. So I don’t really know.
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My lengthiest psychotic break was 6 to 8 months. After which I was guilty regretful and deeply depressed and had anhedonia. Now I am trying to get back to normal phase. There are lot of obstacles but I am trying a lot to see changes.
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it was prolonged by my own actions. It was hell and there was nothing after it but blue skies and pure love. I felt grace from somewhere, whoever and all who decided to show me grace on a grand scale practically saved my understanding of the world and convinced me that I had a place in it.
Angels and that basically.
can you remeber the feeling.? I felt hollow and it would stop me frozen in my tracks. So much sadness and emptyness mixed with other dangerous ones such as shame, persecution. I heard about fight or flight today from a member, I think this is linked to psychosis also and your body mind spirit responding to trauma. The plus side is that all three are on an auto recovery process. How we end up healing ourselves can be through creation
It has lasted like 5 or 6 months sometimes. Other times maybe a couple weeks. It jsut depends.
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I really don’t know. I was prodromal for a long time. I heard voices, was paranoid, had delusions and had anxiety through the roof. I was walking around like that for 4-5 years. Then I had my psychotic break. After that I was medicated and fought delusions for maybe 3-4 years. Right now I don’t have delusions but am struggling with voices.
I’ve been sick for 10 years! From what I know psychosis is not an on/off switch. It fluctuates like waves that come and go.
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