Hoping to hear from people what their advice or skills are for avoiding relapse or not sinking further into delusions?
Experienced my first psychotic break in November (auditory/visual/sensory hallucinations, paranoid and grandiose delusions, etc) and am only now starting to ‘come down’ to realizing how delusional my thinking has been. I see a lot of people say they try to avoid certain things that trigger their delusions, like talk of religion, the supernatural, etc. Because of the duration/intensity of my episode, basically everything under sun is a potential trigger-- I don’t want to have to give up everything I used to enjoy.
Welcome to the forum @illmadeknight . I really don’t have anything that triggers me anymore, so I am probably not the best person to ask, but this is a good topic and I think you will get lots of responses from others.
Welcome to the forums. Take your medications and work with your doctor or treatment team. Take as much as needed to maintain symptoms over side effects and sometimes it’s worthwhile to change…others not. It isn’t an exact science and it’s mostly just trial and error which is probably the hardest thing…Again. Welcome. Lots of people around here who’ve gone through it all before!
Welcome to the forum… what has helped me is taking the medication… meditation and being mindful… it is not easy… but I see the good from it so I continue… I am just grateful to be here tbh because things could be much worse. The forum has helped as well and music helps too
Thank you all for the welcomes and advice. I’ll start therapy this week, otherwise struggling to find a psych doctor atm… unfortunately they didn’t set me up with anyone out of the hospital because I seriously downplayed what was going on at the time (part of the delusions.) Working toward getting on some better meds.
Take your medication as prescribed and don’t do any street drugs. A therapist might help. Don’t isolate. Avoid toxic people. Otherwise, just enjoy yourself.
