I’ve had a psychotic break recently. I had many more before but this one is different. I experience a symptom I never had before. My mind sometimes really get split, the other “person” literally takes over the right part of my brain. It scares the ■■■■ out if me, makes me really paranoid and disconnects me from the reality (I don’t lose touch with reality but it’s more like I get disconnected from myself, from what happens in reality and/or from other people). I don’t really have voices but mainly hear the other persons thoughts (don’t know if this is the same as hearing voices though) I’ve been back on antipsychotics for 2 weeks and am wondering if someone had this symptom and/or if it will fade away after some time?
go for a walk in nature …it will help to ground you.
perhaps write down what you are experiencing and hand it to your therapist…that is what they are there for.
remember to ignore the bad voices and thoughts…concentrate only on the good things and voices.
know someone cares .
take care
I’ve heard that some sz pts actually see a physical separation like you describe. I only saw behavioral ones. Parts of me will think, feel and do whatever they think, feel and do. I feel like a helpless passenger in car they’re driving sometimes. Dialectical behavior therapy (see http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm) helped me to develop yet another separate part that just observes all this with detachment and acceptance so that I’m not swept up in emotional reactions to what The Other thinks, feels and does.
That’s comforting yet worrisome to hear. But from what I understand it’s still a positive symptom right and it might, if I’m lucky, fade away with AP’s? I also witness my heartbeat is changing whenever this “person” is in my head and/or thinking about the situation I am in, when I talk/listen to my heart it gives me guidance/hints and it’s not talking like hallucinations. It’s more like an extra feeling and I don’t see this as a part of the illness, or am I wrong looking at it this way?
I used to experience something similar. Like someone else said DBT helped me so much to stay present. Finding the right med and dose took a while but when I did the voices and dissociation went away immediately.
No, I didn’t experience the changing heartbeat. DBT is a type of therapy that gives you coping skills for dealing with life and people around you. (see DBT self help for more in depth info on what the treatment looks like). I attended intensive outpatient for 2 months then group for about a year doing DBT. I think it is an offshoot of CBT.
…it will help to ground you. 
