No not from weight gain. When I’d look at my face it looked like I was wearing a mask that looked like my face, hard to describe. Anyway it freaked the hell out of me to the point where I stare at the floor in my mirrored bathroom. Hard to pee, then I got my meds changed and that scarey face mask thing went away. Pictures of people had the same effect for awhile. Was weird I tell you.
I had a phobia about mirrors, for a long time I would never look at a mirror in the dark because I thought I would see the devil. I still wouldn’t be comfortable about having a mirror in my bedroom.
I had the same sort of thing. I would look in the mirror and my face would be deformed. It was scary!
It might sound weird, but I was afraid of mannequins as a kid.
Same!! What is it with people with psychosis and mirrors. I had the exact same problem as you, half my face didn’t look like my face. It looked evil and warped and ugly. At the time I believed an evil angel had possessed it or as I called it was “taking up space in my face.”
Then later I didn’t trust my reflection and was terrified it would come out and kill me if I let my guard down. That lead to many sleepless nights. Once my oblivious parents bought me a huge second mirror for my room all excited that I’d love it and I practically threw a fit. They dragged it out of there pretty confused.
I had this too!
I was very scared that I might see ghosts or demons standing behind me, and I still have to force myself to look in a mirror when it’s dark, even though the fear is gone.
I used to feel the same, on medicine it’s lesser.
I’d look in the mirror and it felt like someone who looked like me from another dimension, peering in through mine, so a reflective universe so to speak.
It used to freak me out pretty bad and I couldn’t look at myself in reflections, glass or mirrors, much at all.
I think this is a common sz thing. I went 3 years not looking in a mirror. Really altered my perception of myself. Well I had no perception of my real self, only my false self.
I hate mirrors. I hate my own image and have hit and thrown things at my image in the mirror. I actually don’t relate to what I’m seeing. I don’t feel connected at all.
I look in the mirror to make sure what other people are going to see is presentable, but other times, like when I’m brushing my teeth, etc., I don’t look in the mirror…
were you on Latuda? I read that a mask like facial expression can be a side effect
Weird, yes I was on latuda 80mg. It worked great for 2 years then I started
getting really sick to my stomach and changed to rexulti 4mg.