Does anyone else get psyhotic when you fall in love with someone? I am married but can sometimes fall in love with other people. It’s innocent love, I don’t act on the feelings. But I feel great for a while and then I get psychotic! It must be the dopamine. Abilify has made it harder to fall in love, but it still happens.
The other person never finds out what I feel about them. It can be a somewhat stranger or a friend. I’m married and I keep my feelings for myself. The love feeling will pass, it always does. I’ve been togeather with my husband for 17 years. We belong togeather. I can fall in love again with him too. But then I get psychotic. This has made me afraid of feeling love.
I don’t think the falling in love thing has anything to do with becoming psychotic. I tend to fall in love every day with someone, like for my temp jobs, I’ll walk in and the manager walks into me greet me and I’m like, well hellooo, because I love him instantly. Sometimes at a wedding or in a bar I’ll fall in loove with a woman too, and I can’t stop staring at her. I think it’s actually very important to me to feel this way, and I hope it never changes.
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Maybe I just have bad luck that they have happened at the same time…
I wouldn’t call those feelings love. To me, love is a verb, not a noun. It is what you do for another person. What you’re describing sounds more like euphoria, and when I feel euphoria, I can get a bit psychotic too. When spring arrives and the weather is warm, I get so ecstatically happy that I slip into a manic state and my symptoms get worse.
Hmmm. Maybe it’s euphoria. I’m an emotioneal catastrophe. I don’t know what is what. Most of the time I feel nothing but anxiety.
I fall in love… or fall in crush all the time… It is a rush… it’s warm and taste like butterscotch. I do get a bit giddy…
Euphoria will trigger some wild things in my head… It’s been getting bad enough that my doc put me on mood stabilizers.
So far… they have been Ok. I’m starting to feel a little less euphorically high… but I’m also not having as many crashing lows…
Yeah and to people I’d never otherwise fall for… I really think it was the mania but my pdoc insisted it was a schiz ep
Crush is the right word for if. It’s not love because I don’t know them well. It’s like when a kid got a crush on an idol. Impossible but gets you high.
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Wonder if the people are just triggering you. Happens some times. No idea why though. I get triggered by some women. diagnosed with bipolar 1. One in particular was a horrible obsession it was a right mess.