Poll: How do you experience your psychosis?

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  • I experience periods of total normality interrupted by periods of intense psychosis

  • I experience continuous “minor” psychotic symptoms that then sharply escalate in severity during episodes

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remove the “end” add spaces between the “-” and the sentence

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Arghhh why can I never get this on the first try

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One day I’m fine, the next, I get hit by psychosis. Sucks. :sweat:

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It is very interesting to me that people with the same diagnosis may have a different experience of the disorder and almost makes me feel like they are two separate kinds of schizophrenia. For me personally I have mild, constant psychotic symptoms that then spike in severity during episodes. I have had periods of time with little to no psychotic symptoms before but they are not long lasting and I can count them on one hand.

You also have to take the effect of medication into account though.

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Kind of in between those extremes. Occasionally some minor psychotic symptoms (intrusive thoughts), but certainly not continuously so. Though total normality would be a stretch, I voted that one. That’s on medication btw, without it I have no reason to suspect psychosis would ever end.

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Thanks for clarifying on that.

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I’m too afraid to try it bc of this hahaha

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Haha I just make a fool out of myself every time :wink:

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I haven’t had a episode in quite a while, but I’m more of the second option kinda guy!

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my sz is ongoing hell of self defense against three or four general types of hallucinations… when I don’t take care of my body and mental chemistry it only gets worse…

although I will say that compared to in the past the symptoms I experience are relatively “minor.”