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I think some people on here have escaped full blown psychosis.
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What do u mean escaped
That is to say they never had it.
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My worst psychosis was from morphine in the hospital
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Oh yes. I thought the world ended because of me and then after that initial psychosis I thought I was in hell or purgatory and my friends were really angels trying to rescue me. 
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A few times, mind races as one enters the verge of insanity. Usually end up in hospital at that point.
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Some time ago I was stating that I never lost touch with reality or my reasonā¦ But in fact, I was so lost and ill now that I see it, that I realize me too I escaped the reality in the past too. What was happening in my head was definitely not normalā¦
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I didnāt think so at the times the um, stuff happened, but when I talk about the stuff that did happen, I have to admit it sounds just a tad nuttyā¦even for me.
Most surprising a when I ran a bunch of facts across to my pdoc, and she says "I know you think itās real,ā
I had to say,ā yeah, because it IS real."
She just shook her head sadly and said,āI know it seems like it is real to youā¦ā
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Iāve completely lost the plot before a few times when I acted more like I was acting like an alien landing on a planet full of new creatures
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What is your definition of āfull blown psychosisā? I have variously been described as " Having psychotic symptoms" , āAnd he has in the past suffered from some delusional thoughts which are now managed by medicationā .
At what point does " Has difficulties with perception" and irrationality morph into psychosis?
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Iāve been psychotic most of my entire life. Extremely paranoid mostly. Thought disorder. Some delusions and some hallucinations. A whole lot of depression and suicidal ideations. Some suicidal gestures. My paranoia and suicidal thinking were both very disabling all of my life. I am happily free of it all now and Iām on a lot of psychotropic meds.
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I guess itās just losing touch with reality. Iām not a doctor. Like in my case I thought hospital was actually a spaceship facsimile of earth but situated on the moon. Thatās certainly losing touch with reality.
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Been good timesā¦ I was the star of a private local version of the truman show. almost stabbed a guy
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How far down the rabbit hole would I have to have been to fit your definition, though? I didnāt think I was in a spaceship or anything like that. I knew most of my hallucinations were hallucinations. I knew my version of reality didnāt fit with most other peopleās. I also thought I could predict the future, that I had a special connection with the spirit world and got revelations and messages from them, felt people in crowds could read my mind and hallucinated pretty much every minute of the day by the end.
I get the feeling you donāt think this is psychotic enough to really be psychosis.
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I believe you were psychotic from what you describe, @anon9798425.
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when I first heard voices my mind was different. I canāt explain it. as with delusions too my mind is different. I cannot express it properlyā¦
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Even during my most stable times with few exceptions I daily believe at times that the voices are real and have to try to fight that belief. When they donāt sound like me and are outside my control like theyāve been since day 1 itās hard to conclude otherwise.
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Metaphorically speaking I think thereās been times when I thought a chimpanzee was a monkey but I donāt think I ever thought it was a human.
Thereās certainly been no spaceship delusions/hallucinations. My ādelusionsā have been comparatively mild compared to that. Thinking I had female sexual parts and that my body was changing being a common one. I think I had insight it might be dodgy thinking but no control over whether they were present or not. I kept on trying to have female orgasms ie orgasms without the use of the ā ā ā ā ā . At the time I thought this isnāt really super odd because I know itās happening and it comes and goes in intensity.
At the time it was last happening I was on oral meds and only taking 40-50% of the time. Since being on Consta and having a 95%+ take up rate such thoughts have faded to the background. As have having the delusional obsessive thoughts that Iām a paedophile. Also not had any false memories. The classic one for me constantly entertaining the thought I had gone back to my last school years after Iād actually left even though reality testing showed that was nonsense. Another one early in my illness,perhaps proof these things can be age related, thinking I had written a minor pop hit.
Also itās been years since Iāve waited in nervous anticipation for inanimate objects to start talking to me. They never did but I still thought some day theyāre going to.
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Yeah I lose touch every relapse and it lasts a good 3 months + for me to get back to my normal reality.
When I am too tired, or drink a lot of alcohol or too stressed, I still lose touch and have mild delusions.
It feels like my mind functions at two different frequencies.
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My former psychiatrist didnāt think I had psychosis (I think), but things changed when she apparently gave me adderall and my former neurologist gave me topamax. I became fully psychotic. Thought people could read my mind and stuff. This was in 2015. After I survived that hospitalization, I started getting grey hairs on my head.
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