Problems with shadow people

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I was up till three in the morning watching the shadow people in my room. kay was home so no night light or tv. I kept thinking they were going to hurt kay, they were everywhere. I had to take two Ativan to go to sleep

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I thought I heard aliens last night.

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Yeah I woke up to them a few times but they canā€™t hurt you unless you go to punch one and end up hitting a stone wall like I did hahaha

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@Jimbob thatā€™s another fear of mine, I have seen them before too.

@BJJShutIn, Iā€™ve never tried to punch them but I kept getting scared. my heart was beating really fast.

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I know first-hand itā€™s a very scary experience, I hope you donā€™t go through that tonight.

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@reggie didnā€™t you mention you see shadow people? Any advice?

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I would wake my partner (in your case Kay) and ask her to look and tell you what she sees. Share the experience to bring you out of isolation and weaken the strength of the visions. Maybe during the day you can write down ā€œthey canā€™t hurt you or anyone elseā€ on a sign you can see as a reminder.
The strength of my visions and the negativity of my visions is often related to my state of mind and the amount of stress Iā€™m feeling. Do you have a therapist, @cbbrown? I would make an appointment.

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I havenā€™t seen one in years and they used to scare me. Iā€™m with BJJ though, I started confronting them. I then realized they couldnā€™t hurt me & they became way less scary.

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I see a therapist Tuesday at 11am. she knows I have been having problems and thatā€™s why she got me in to see the pdoc so soon. kay works nights most of the time she is maybe home with me at night 1-4 nights a week it varies.

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Iā€™ve seen shadow people before thought they were conjured up by voodoo people. Used to be afraid of them but not anymore just fall right to sleep.

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I have many hours logged in with watching shadow people, or in my experience, whoā€™s watching who?
All I can say is itā€™s an enormous time suck, and the most draining thing to experience without actually having to do ā€˜anythingā€™!

After awhile it gets easier and easier to relax and just go on about your regular business and just let them do theirs, they have never done anything detrimental to me, all negative things done were from me, never them, so once I realized that, I just acknowledged their presence and carried on.

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I canā€™t calm down when they are around, but I will try. I see my psychiatrist on the 20th. iā€™m going to ask that he not increase my dose of Haldol. I want to see if I give it another month what will happen.

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Good olā€™ ativan, it can be a life saver.

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I thought I was the only one that saw them. I hate them.

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Shadow people are a painā€¦whatā€™s worse is the shadow whales who like to jump in front of the car while Iā€™m drivingā€¦thatā€™s fun

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Shadow whales? My shadow people look like decaying corpes. Super freaky

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Shadow people are a key indicator that things are looking decidedly bad for me. Voices I can cope with, but shadow peopleā€¦nope.