What is your experience with communicating while psychotic? It’s like people ignore me or maybe I’m speaking a weird language. My words are mixxed.
I don’t know.
I also when I was experiencing an episode which was unique as it seemed like a stereotypical crazy person (I screamed at a socket and was barking at my dog and hugging it and eating raman with my hand) I couldn’t understand things I said aloud. I said things to myself but they came out as nonsense.
What’s your guys experience with communication?
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For me, when I am not psychotic I like to think I am well spoken.
When I am psychotic, unrecognizable words coming out or inappropriate sounds aren’t typically an issue. I just don’t speak much, if at all. A lot of one word responses if any. I usually won’t speak out loud unless someone tries to speak to me. Sometimes my responses are incomplete or don’t have solid reasoning but they’re usually an appropriate answer.
For example, someone will tell me to “go lie down” and I will say “I can’t” but not offer any reason as to why. If they ask “why not” I’ll just repeat myself or leave the question unanswered.
So it’s not entirely sensible but grammatically the answer does make sense.
That’s just from what I can recollect though. I may have periods of psychosis where my words are completely incomprehensible but I just can’t remember. Memory is a real issue for me.
It depends on the strenght of thought disorders and cognitive impairment.
I talk in circles when I get psychotic and also start talking about things that don’t matter.
I get paranoid and talk fast. My grammar and fluency is not as good as it was before I got sick.
When psychotic I am all inside my own head and all my relationships are suspect. So I don’t communicate on a very effective level. It seems no one can reach me for a while.
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