is it them (ext familt and brother) who stopped talking to me for having a psychotic episode or is it me who still believes they are good and will talk to me… i am stressed out for this very reason for 1 year… neither my mind gets calm nor anything else outside calms me
Psychotic episodes can be scary. Also I remember in another post that you said you attacked them. That is not good. Also they probably don’t understand the illness that well and area little freaked out by it. I don’t know where you live so I don’t know how the stigma is either. In some places family can shut you out from the stigma. The only advice I can offer is give them some space and maybe every once in a while try to talk to them. Like the occasional olive branch. Which can be hard if they refuse to talk to you. Maybe apologize for attacking them.
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have tried apologizing as you say the stigma shut me off from them. i am from india. thanks for your advice. will try talk once in a while but they do not want to pick up the phone. sad state of affairs. wish i get admitted or get into some ashram.
I think it is best to adopt a no blame policy when dealing with mental illness for all the parties concerned. A psychotic break can be incomprehensible to normies, and sometimes they don’t react the right way. No one is in the wrong. There isn’t much you can do about their feelings other than try to show them you’re med compliant and you’re stable. You might make a few overtures to them, but I wouldn’t try to force yourself on them. You have to decide for yourself how to approach them. It might take patience.
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its virtually impossible for me to show them i am med compliant and stable. they assume my nature is such and i am unpardonable. i have been waiting my life for them. no sense of even little care.
now i am trying to think out of the box like what if i dont care about them at all jus feel free with what i have and enjoy the life as much as i can. some day they come to know through some one that i am doing fine. and on that day i will just react the way i am supposed to. 