Days, months? I don’t know if years are possible? How did you cope?
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Years for me. I slipped under the radar for a long time because of how well I was able to hold it together
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Same here. Got by via taking meds, but not the right ones.
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first time delusional…three months…went full blown about a month…put on meds…quit meds…then about eight months delusioanal…
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2 years for me…
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If it’s ok to ask, what were your worst symptoms and how did you cope for 2 years?
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I was delusional (psychotic) for the first 2 and a half years. I spent 6 months in solitary confinement without meds in jail. The rest of the time I was with family and in and out of hospitals.
It’s not a great way to live. Fortunately it eventually ended. I like to try and tell people who come here to hang in there and that it gets better, but lots of people have had this illness 10+ years and still feel awful, and I have no idea what to tell those folks.
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I was psychotic for about two years whilst no one knew what was wrong with me
We toyed with the idea that it may be a spiritual problem like a curse or hex or negative energy
When we finally realised we were dealing with a medical problem things improved a lot
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About two years. I might have been psychotic longer. I got a job after my initial two years of psychosis and I went through some weird stuff even though I held the job for four years. Nothing says stress and psychosis like having to wash 5 big bags of towels at the laundromat on a Saturday morning, when it’s packed and taking up ten washers at once and then ten dryers. People were hating on me. That was a just a little part of the job though.
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Long long time because I was initially thinking I was special and didn’t want to share my secret and then the last months I was fearing the voice would torture me if I tell someone so that was maybe about 8 to 9 months that I had no insight into what was going on. That was the first time I became ill.
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I was just a puppet to voices and highly delusional. I didn’t cope.
Messed stuff up and incarcerated. Court ordered to hospital and got some meds.
Picking up pieces now.
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I would say I was psychotic for two or three months about thirty years ago. I thought people were trying to get me to commit suicide. It scared me. I bought a .22 automatic handgun. I wasn’t going to walk into a crowded place and open up, or anything like that. The danger was that someone could have walked up behind me on a dark night, and I would have turned around and shot them. I believed that when they saw I wasn’t going to commit suicide they would send somebody after me. I took off to Texas, but I came back the next day.
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