Hello, my name is Shannon.
For the past three years, I’ve been struggling with anxiety and mood swings, and my parents thought it was just normal teenage angst. But then, last June I got a psyche evaluation, and got diagnosed with bi-polar depression with psychotic episodes. I’ve started on medicine since then, and it has helped with my anxiety, mood swings, and depression. But not so much with my hallucinations, I still see people standing in my doorway and hear voices and feel hands touching me that aren’t there (probably). I’m on resperidone or something like that for it, but it doesn’t seem to do much good. I also have night terrors so I don’t get much sleep ever…
Anyways, I’ve been really struggling lately, and my therapist never wants to talk about my psychotic episodes, just my anxiety and depression. So I’ve decides to seek help and support from others who have experience with this stuff.
I do have an ESA who’s a green cheeked conure that helps a lot, he eases the episodes, so I rely on him a lot for going places out side of school…but I don’t know what to do during school. I’m terrified that I’m going to hear voices, like someone talking to me and I won’t know if it’s real or not and then respond, but then be talking to myself and have other kids see that and think I’m insane.
I’d like to hear your experiences and advice with this stuff, thank you.
I’m 16 by the way, if that helps.
thought i would say hi.
know someone cares, this is a good site for info and support.
hearing voices and seeing stuff is pretty normal…you get used to it.
ignore the bad voices…
you seem pretty smart and switched on.
you are not alone in this.
perhaps read other peoples posts…as this will give you insight.
take care 
Hi. Welcome to the club! You are definitely not alone. Before I got my mess sorted out, I felt like I was on an island. Everything on the island with me was real, but the second I tried to remember something outside the very present, it all fell apart. If your therapist is trying to avoid talking about your hallucinations, it is possible she thinks anxiety and depression are more immediate concerns for you. If she believes you are a suicide risk, I can see hey she would focus n those first. Then agin, my be she just doesn’t know much about psychosis, and is trying to mask her lack of knowledge until she can study it more.
People on here are very supportive so feel free to post whenever you need to! 
I also deal with anxiety/depression and psychosis. The therapists I’ve seen also tend to focus on the anxiety part over the psychosis…the psychosis they only ever really care if I’m lucid or not…I think it’s because most therapists aren’t trained in how to treat a psychotic client so they just go with what they know…