Is this the same experience as yall?
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I find my a lot of my friends have an aversion to talking about somewhat deep mental issues.
Telling friends about delusions makes them disappear in my experience and it’s embarrassing. Not recommended.
To be honest, i still feel quite ashamed that i have schizophrenia. I don’t like talking about it, especially with my partner. He keeps a close eye on me and can tell when i’m having a rough time of it. Especially when i start going catatonic. However, i get annoyed when he brings these things up. I just don’t like being vulnerable and needing help.
Isn’t that a good thing? That they disappear?
edit: Oh… never mind. You meant your friends disappear. Not the delusions.
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Yeah topics like depression and anxiety are acceptable but talk of delusional content is like kryptonite to superman
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I would generally say that my friends are very understanding of it, and sometimes we even laugh about how silly some of my symptoms can be.
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My friends generally don’t like to talk about mental illness, and I don’t expect them to. We try to keep it positive. I do, however, have a friend with Bipolar 1 disorder that I can vent to, and she does the same for me. We like to go on hikes and just chat about like in general. I think if you can find someone who can relate to you it will really help.
If they could hear your voices that’s probably all they’d talk about because those voices would probably be bothering them too. They are likely concerned about you when your psychosis gets overwhelming but for normal folks their problems tend to come and go. They don’t just go on and on like psychosis tends to do. So they can’t relate and they probably feel like they’ve done what they can for you.
I had an experience of going catatonic in my boyfriends company on Friday. I stopped moving and was in a trance. Was stuck, he tried to talk to me and my speech was incoherent. He couldn’t do much for me. It gets overwhelming for s/o. Then the days that are better it’s like night and day. I can’t imagine what I put him through.
I had a catatonic episode in front of my father and his wife. They were talking to me and I couldn’t respond. I was frozen. Couldn’t move for an hour
Thankfully mine wasn’t an hour. It was a few minutes.
Did they know it was a catatonic eposode?
No. They didn’t. And l wasn’t sure. I couldn’t think
Yea, for some reason when I get mine, I can talk but not in words, can’t think though. In November, I was talking to my therapist and went into one, I blacked out kind of. I don’t remember what she said, but I do remember laughing. Weird.
My catatonia lasts for hours. I get stuck in a pose but i can be moved and i’ll just adopt a new pose. I also can’t talk, comes out as noise. My partner knows what to do - get some Diazepam. After about an hour or two after taking it, the catatonia eases up.
Is diazepam Xanax?
Yes, sorry. I’m a nurse so i usually use the generic names and not the brand names.
Ok, so would me taking a benzodiazepine like klonopin every day ease it? And that explains why I went into the episode because I tried to lower the nighttime dose a week and a half ago.
Years ago, when I was constantly psychotic, I would try to explain my symptoms of telepathy and thought broadcasting to my family and friends and I got little to no understanding or support. They just couldn’t comprehend.