I’m feeling better then when I posted the other day. Thank you for the support. Last year at this time I was in the hospital with pretty bad psychosis. Does anyone else get bad in the winter? Also has anyone else gotten messages from the tv or Facebook? It seems so real. 
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Just wanted to say Hi to you @SunGirl!
Glad your feeling better.
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Thanks Wave! I hope you had a nice holiday ️
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I tend to get more depressed in the winter. I don’t notice anything else.
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I ask about the weather effecting your illness because my fiancé who is bipolar is having a hard time and considering going in the hospital. ️
I’ve received messages from the radio. It really messed up my life. sigh
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I do get worse in the winter too. It’s weird lol. But Ive gotten messages from the tv like it’s being directed towards me in a sense. Glad your doing better too!
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Yeah it’s cyclical. I have breakdowns in spring/early summer. It’s funny how that works.
Thinking the tv is talking to you is called ideas or frames of reference. It’s a common positive symptom and your doing allright if you can recognise that. Knowing your symptoms helps you know when to ask for help. As always it’s worthwhile bringing this up with your doc.
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Maybe a vitamin D supplement would help.
I have had issues with ht e TV. Usually my psychosis is at it’s worst when I think the tv is communicating with me. This warrants attention as it is a serious issue. Either the hospital I would recommend or a serious med adjustment.
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Yes, I’ve had the TV talking to me and it still does sometimes, but now I can ignore it since going on meds, although sometimes it does tell me some real common sense stuff which I probably should implement in my life. It told me to give up eating sugar. I know it’s psychosis, but I’ve taken that piece of advice.
I usually get paranoid and psychotic around this time of year. Maybe it’s the change of routine over Xmas and socialising with family more?
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Yea. My current one is that a super famous youtuber is making Vids just for me and no one else. Just covertly telling me they simpathize with my struggles and they understand. I hate these delusions because any kind of synchrocity just cinches it in deeper for me. I hate it. 
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Yeah, Youtube is bad for that.
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Facebook is bad I will always see messages so I deleted it 10 years ago. Avoid things that trigger u.
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I believe it’s other people manipulating the tv and radio to mess with me, I pay them no attention, why should they get the fun of messing with me
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Before medication every time the tv was ok I thought it was God sending me messages threw the TV. The words on the tv would reply to a thought in my head. With medication I still get this just not quite as often and I’m now able to tell myself it’s not real even if I hear it.
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i, and many others, have noticed we do worse over winter. A couple of months ago on a thread, a handful of people wanted to try ligjt treatment.
There is a bulb/light out called a S.A.D. lamp. It is a full spectrum light bulb that is to be used on a regular basis.
Myself and a couple of others are using it with good results. The others did not post their experience or if they bought one.
So far, so good.
Try it?
Who’s the person? I or my sister might of heard of that person!
Do you have that problem too? Can you tell me how it was?
Hello! Yes this time last year I was very ill. Didn’t get hospitalised but was very unwell and psychotic. And now I am experiencing some depression again. This time of year defo seems to trigger me. I think it’s christmas.
For some reason I always used to relapse in November. But this past November I didn’t.
Maybe I am over the hump.