I don’t know him but he said it was like an element of psychosis. But it only happened initially after breakup. Isn’t psychosis paranoia meant to be ongoing
My understanding is psychosis is when youre experiencing symptons at there extremes… im not sure to be honest what youre asking. I think you can recover back to completely normal if your only experiencing a temporary psychosis.
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I’ve got bipolar apparently so it didn’t happen when manic high or low
So you were paranoid? About what?
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Basically I broke it off with him. He wasn’t right. For one thing he requested to be added to the find a friend iPhone app so he knew where I was all the time and where I lived. When I broke it off I started getting scared that cos he knew my whereabouts he’d hurt me. I also thought he was a narcissist. But then again my mind was also telling me this wasn’t true. This happened intermittently with heart racing when I got scared and now it’s gone.
Isnt there a way to delete him from the app? Or you did but were still worried? Sounds like a justified reason to be worried.
I had deleted him but then got scared cos he knew where I lived.
Mm sounds a bit ■■■■ if your partner cant trust you n has to know where you are constantly… sounds like he was the paranoid one.
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@anon80629714 My last 2 Psychotic Breaks were Brief as well.
I may have been a bit Manic when experiencing psychosis but I don’t think so (not sure really)
I am going to tell my doctor about the brief Psychotic episodes.
This is not the first time for me.
I know that bipolar Psychotic episodes are shorter in duration than Schizophrenic Breaks.
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It is normal for symptoms to flare up when you’re extra stressed out. But I wouldn’t consider you paranoid because you were worried about him knowing where you lived. He was a scary dude.
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It is ongoing but you can float in and out, stress can bring it out big time, some get it once and never again.
I know for me I can be good for a long time , then stress kicks in and I can go over the edge. My behavior changes as well, all over the place.
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What my therapist tells me when I’m stressing about things that are possible is that it it better to have those kinds reality based fears instead of an all out delusion. It puts you on the anxiety/worry end of the spectrum.
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