I’m curious I was told by my therapist that the times I thought I could cure cancer was caused by mana idk schizophrenia causes psychosis I felt amazing better than I ever did/do I’m not asking for you to diagnose me I’m just wondering if mania can cause psychosis also a weird thing was I ran outside the house in February without a coat or shoes I honestly thought I could cure cancer and I also thought I stopped crime around the world at the same time basically i thought I caused world peace
Does anybody else here experience stuff like that when manic
Idk when I wrote this down it does seem a bit weird like maybe its mania and schizophrenia at the same time but I’ve seen people wayyyy worse bye has anybody experienced this who weren’t manic at the time
I also thought i can cure cancer and all other disease. Also that I am God. Dr said its not mania but sz. Grandiosity is a symptom of both mania and sz afaik
I’m a bit confused about my actual diagnosis I think its schizoaffective disorder I used to hear voices everyday without haldol it’s constantly command hallucinations ive never and would never do it I’d always tell them sometimes out loud to “f” off you know what I mean and also it lasted 7 years of voices and haldol stopped them in it’s tracks I’m so thankful for haldol and lamictal definitely saved my life too I would inevitably “off” myself I’m thankful i just don’t know and I’m not convinced it’s as bad as I once thought it was
And also I freaking hate when my therapist says I have a “severe mental illness” imo I’m not that sick as I say all the time there’s people who are tragically worse off than me she knows it too I have a mental illness but not severe I feel bad for the people with actual severe mental illnesses
I definitely have mania and psychosis simultaneously.
My own flavor of delusion is religious, that I am the chosen one to change the world. This last time, I even bought 25 new Testaments off Amazon to carry in my purse to give out to those that God would tell me needed them.
Loads more I could list, but I don’t want to get suspended or flagged. The details are way too personal anyway. I only share with 3 people besides my pnurse.
But yeah, i was freaking GONE.
Like you, I was beyond euphoric for 12 days straight, but I was also completely and utterly delusional and reading personal signs in almost everything that happened to me.
Sorry to hear that I just feel like there are people worse off than me and I know it’s not a competition but I do take my meds everyday also I take haldol injections every month and don’t plan on quitting taking them off my meds it’s really severe but even then there are homeless people living with psychosis it breaks my heart it really does
Yeah nobody wants that kind of life the more I think about this the worse I feel for them however supposedly if I quit meds they can eventually stop working but that’s why I never miss a dose because I don’t wanna end up like them I try my best to avoid psychosis I think I’m back in denial stage of my problems because the more I think about it my problems off of meds are extremely severe but on meds I don’t think It even counts as “severe” I’m working with my therapist on getting a job and I know some people who can’t work due to there illness no judgment it’s just a sad truth
