Kind of a tricky one, he has been talking about some pretty messed up shit and said he's been seeing objects that disappear when he's sober, there's light streams and orbs, he's convinced that he is on the verge of a breakthrough and the only way to find what he's looking for us to take 7 grams this time, he explained to me he saw the creation of humans from an intergalactic federation of species. He watched them make us, and is now seeing through the simulation and is on the verge of getting his answer, he said he was put on this planet by them for a specific purpose and is close to finding out the answer. He is dead serious he has been chosen for something bigger than him. I'm not sure how to go about telling him to just go talk to someone about it. He is very stubborn and hot headed and gets angry very easily. It's a tough one. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

Stimulant psychosis is crazy, that's all I can say.

I had an episode two years ago after staying awake for eight days straight doing amphetamine, meth, coke, a-PVP and a lot of other drugs.

I started hearing voices first. When I was on my phone I could hear them reading all my messages out loud. I wrote "is someone there?" into my notes and I heard a man reply "do you know how easy it was to hack into your phone?" The voices would talk about how I was going to get caught by the police and it made me really paranoid since I had a load of different drugs on me.

I went out to the balcony to stash my laptop there because I thought it wouldn't be possible to hack it if it wasn't in the house, and I saw some of my neighbours in the yard. They were all looking at me and I knew they knew I was doing drugs and selling them. I heard them talking among themselves about how they had seen me do drug deals in the neighbourhood. They knew the exact amounts of speed and benzos I had sold. They knew how much I had on me. They knew everything. I think I might have screamed something along the lines of "try me" at them from the balcony.

Then I started hearing sounds of power tools being used on my front door. It sounded like they were drilling the lock to get in the house and I was sure they had come to steal all my drugs and money. I locked myself into the bathroom with an axe and pepper spray. The sounds went quiet and I came out of the bathroom, and then I saw someone in dark clothing in another room. He was sitting down at my computer. I thought he was stealing my data.

In another room I saw a woman. She was filming me with her phone while hiding under a bed. I had called my sister when I was in the bathroom and she realized that I was in a psychotic state. She came in the house and made me drop the axe and pepper spray. She called an ambulance and the paramedics showed up along with a couple of police officers.

At some point I had had a moment of clarity and realized what was going on and I had taken a handful of Seroquel. When I was in the ambulance it kicked in and I fell asleep. The next thing I know I was restrained to a hospital bed. The doctors started talking to me about what had happened and explained to me that I was in a psychosis. The quetiapine helped and I understood that what they were telling me was true. I had to stay in the hospital for a few days and I went straight to rehab after that.

I haven't done stims for over a year now, and I plan to

Survival. Your brain wants you to survive.

You start to hallucinate because your brain decides to show you your subconscious thoughts and feelings. Your brain decides: “Hey, you know what, since you keep suppressing these emotions from these super traumatic experiences that you’ve had... I’m sick of storing this shit. You need to fucking face this shit. Enough is enough. Here. Have a look.”

On the bright side in the first study all 6 people who completely abstained from cannabis use didn't relapse.

Cannabis Induced Psychosis and subsequent psychiatric disorders - complete recovery without relapse: 17,2%

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320425689_Cannabis_Induced_Psychosis_and_subsequent_psychiatric_disorders

Cannabis-induced psychosis and subsequent schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: follow-up study of 535 incident cases - complete recovery without relapse: 22,8%

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/cannabisinduced-psychosis-and-subsequent-schizophreniaspectrum-disorders-followup-study-of-535-incident-cases/72EDC6F73DC32618DACCFF93DB931A55

I have this fear of going insane and getting psychosis. I am scared of loosing control and harming people. I also have this fear of forgeting who my parents are and harming them. I deal with alot of stress and anxiety 24/7. I feel like I'm on the edge of snaping and losing control or getting a panick attack. Please help, and give me some advice.

(Meta: Yes, I do care about an Oxford Comma.)

Whether it would have made some of the most hardcore fans happy or not, 30 minutes of a person telling a story is not entertaining. The writers of the show had to do an infodump in order to answer questions before Liz (Megan Boone) leaves the show. The question they were then faced with was how to do that efficiently and in an entertaining way.

Let’s touch the big points first – Liz did not hallucinate this scenario, she didn’t have a psychotic episode, and her memories are not being rewritten.

What we saw was largely symbolic as well as being a fun way to tell the story that Liz is coming to understand. Understand that what we saw isn’t what actually happened or how Liz saw it – it was an abstract way of showing us her perception.

Liz arrives at “The Nest” and Red begins to tell the story. What we see from here on out is a symbolic view regarding what’s happening in her mind. Not everything that we see are things that Red is telling her. We are in her mind and piecing it all together. Red tells her information and she combines that with the knowledge that she already has. We are in her brain for this episode as she takes what Red is saying and combining it with the information that she already has. This also wakes up memories in her that she believed forgotten.

This episode is designed to be “a document” and is meant to be trusted as fact. The story-telling used to give us this information is not meant to be taken literally – it’s simply a story-telling device used to convey a large amount of information quickly. What we see in terms of Liz and time slowing isn’t supposed to be taken literally – it’s symbolic of what’s actually happening. She is getting information and putting all of the pieces together.

This is an experimental, fun episode that was meant to change up the rhythm of the show while also not sacrificing its integrity. It was designed to be an infodump for us while also not being boring and giving us a lot of answer.

Liz wasn’t drugged. Liz didn’t have a psychotic breakdown. Liz’s memories are not being rewritten. This is the story but it’s being told in a different way than we have seen in this show before. Stop reading too much into it – it was just a fun way to give us an infodump and nothing more.

I started strattera last Friday. It caused me to have intense dreams, except when I woke up I was stuck in the same state. It started two days ago, I woke up dizzy and confused. I accidentally ended up scraping my car on a large curb, but I believed it was from a lack of sleep.

Yesterday, I felt extremely tired and took a nap midday. I had a dream an invisible lizard person was hunting me. When I woke up I couldn't tell if I was awake. I was convinced he was still hunting me. I told my Mom that I was losing my sanity and called my Dad and Indian Health Services. Apparently I was babbling the whole time and randomly crying. I still have gaps in my memory and am still unsure what was real or not. After consulting IHS they told me to go to the ER immediately. The entire time I kept shaking my head and slapping myself to wake up. The lizard man was after me, and every sound and touch was him coming to kill me.

The doctors basically put me on an IV drip and ran blood tests. After four hours my sanity, sense of reality, and balance came back to me. This has by far been the worst experience with a prescribed medication I have ever had. Even now if I go back to sleep I will wake up in that same state again.

Unsurprisingly I will never take Strattera ever again. If you take this medicine and end up feeling insane, stop taking it immediately and go to the hospital. It's dangerous!!! In one of my dreams I jumped off a building to wake myself up, it didn't work. Thankfully I didn't try that when I was actually awake!

The anti-shifter's have struck again with their never-ending accusations. The main accusation for today is "Shifting is Psychosis in disguise."

So first we need to know what Psychosis is.

Wedmd states: "Psychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real. Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. A mental or physical illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma can cause it."

Signs of Psychosis can be:

• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Disorganization
• Incoherent speech
• Decreased Motivation

Psychosis in teens however is rare. Over 100,000 teens and young adults experience it every year according to healthtalk.unhealthcare.org .

Some say the causes of Psychosis can be

• Trauma
• Depression
• Bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Genetics

They are many treatment for people who have psychosis and many can recover quickly. Now let's try and compare the two.

Similarities

• You can hear/see stuff other's can't
• Many people can become too attached to it

Differences

• You can control when you shift
• If psychosis is a one time event it can go away by it's own. You chose if you want to shift or not shift.
• Many times people with psychosis get help. Shifter's can (again) chose to not shift.
• Some causes psychosis can be trauma, with shifting you can shift with or without trauma.
• Many teens (like myself) have shifted or are trying to shift (I have not shifted yet lol). However psychosis in teens is rare and I don't think every single teen that has shifted has psychosis. However even though psychosis can first occur in adolescence I find it hard to believe every single teen shifter has psychosis.
• In shifting you can chose where to shift. I have not found info about choosing what happens during a psychosis episode.

They are many things I left out just to avoid getting banned but here are some links you can check out yourself: https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/psychosis/faq/how-long-does-psychosis-last/

[https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248159](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles

All of this is true and im still dealing w the consequences of my actions a month later. Im abstaining from all substances now because of my habit and im seeking treatment. These drugs can definitely be used responsibly, this is just an actual example of the consequences of not using them responsibly.

My experience with drugs is a little hard to believe and even i have trouble understanding how i was running so fuckin hard at my age. When i was 16 i had dabbled in nearly every category of drug and had a bad meth addiction. I kicked meth by switching to coke. My age is on another post i made(dont want this taken down). I had tried pyros only a couple times before this incident and IMMEDIATELY recognized its power and i knew to respect the fuck out of this class of drugs. All the fiendishness, rush, and confusion of crack but the euphoria, length, and addiction of meth. Pretty damn fun shit tho.

Like i said i had been doing a lot of coke. I was doing it for ab 2 weeks every day before this event. I was also combining as many drugs as i could get my hands on daily. Ghb, alcohol, fent, research chemicals, anything really. I began to get extremely paranoid from the substances and on top of that there was some real shit that almost went down. A girls dad was attempting to get me arrested because i was selling her drugs and he had contacted police. I found out that my phone was being tapped and immediately packed some clothes and my entire stash of drugs. I took out 4 grand from my bank and made my way for mexico.

You see. I live in florida. Very fucking far from mexico. So there was little chance of me making it to mexico but i said fuck it. I ditched all of my psychedelics and a couple other drugs i wouldnt need. I kept my pcp, ~20 grams of coke, a-pihp, a-php, mdphp, and some fentanyl pressed percocets. I stayed up the whole first night on coke preparing for leaving so i could call out of work the next day. I stayed up the second day by doing coke as much as possible but that didnt last long bc of my tolerance. I started smoking the mdphp to get me through the night. It went great for a little until i started getting more focused on smoking the monkey dust than on driving. I kept pulling off every other exit on the highway in north florida just to smoke the dust. I can tell my psychosis was picking up around this point. I felt so alone and paranoid. I was in isolation for what felt like so long.

I got to the point where i couldnt even speak coherently to

Let me start off by saying that I'll tell my doctors about what I'm experiencing. I'm Bipolar and a side effect of that is having psychosis.

Just today I was trying to fall asleep and my phone turned on. It was on Tiktok, but it wasn't the last video I had seen. I ignored it and tried going back to sleep. One of my papers fell off my desk. I get that my fan is on, but my fan is always on. It's never fallen before. It's never moved before either.

The lights recently went out in my kitchen and they came back on when my mom accidentally burned herself. They've been going on and off at random times, but it's mostly when I'm downstairs by myself. That usually signals me that it's time I go upstairs.

The thing is is that my dad recently passed away. I have dreams with him every now and then, but he's never dead in the dream. I'm way older too. The last dream I had with him he was telling me something important. He was worried, but I forgot what he told me.

A few months back, I had a weird ass dream where someone was in my room and behind me. I pretended that i was asleep. He was talking to me and pretending to be my dad. He told me Bless You, but I didn't sneeze. I didn't say a word.

I don't know what the fuck is going on

First of all, I am by no stretch of the imagination “anti vaccine.” I do want to know if anyone else has had a similar experience. One adult member of my family experienced the inability to sleep followed by psychosis severe enough to warrant a trip to the ER. After intake, my family member stayed in the mental health ward for 4 days. The diagnosis was Bipolar disorder. There was no history of this in my family member or anyone in our family tree. It’s been 8 weeks since the incident and since then, my family member has fully recovered. This person is not taking any anti psychotic medication. I have had a crash course in Bipolar and know it is unlikely my family member has it. We have since heard of other people who had temporary psychosis following getting the vaccine. I am wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Hey all, I was hospitalized over 15 times in my 20’s for psychotic symptoms. My struggle was mostly with delusions, my mind was so filled with intrusive thoughts and paranoia it drastically inhibited my ability to do very simple tasks. Yet with a combination of medication, long term sobriety, daily meditation and weekly therapy I’ve really found a lot of peace and stability for quite a considerable amount of time (it’s been almost 4 years since my last hospitalization). I still have difficulty under a lot of stress, it can get other-worldly at times if I’m not careful. But honestly I never imagined I’d be okay again. Has anyone else who has been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder shared a similar experience? It just doesn’t quite seem to fit the narrative.

Does anyone have any light hearted, amusing stories of psychotic interactions, psych ward antics, delusions, or the like that you would want to share?

Super down today and would love something to make me laugh or even smile... thanks in advance 💕

If I can think of any of my own stories I will edit the post to include them.

Edit: this isn't exactly from when I was in psychosis, but after I got home my youngest sister was researching "how to be supportive of a family member with psychosis" but she mixed up psychosis with psychopathy so she was researching about psychopaths and getting really freaked out 😅

Edit 2: thanks for the hugz award! 😊

edit: Basically wanna know why you're convinced your brain won't go haywire. Im not a psych expert but eager to learn.

I think tripping can be interesting but not if it forever means you have to take pills every morning to be stable.

I see so many young people everywhere on social media - Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, snapchat - talk about their psychosis (and mental health in general) like it’s a big joke.

No, it’s not. It’s simply not. Why would you ever want something so crippling. I ran across a profile that bragged about their “hallucinations” “delusions.” It’s always the same cookie-cutter story - abuses weed to “treat it”, refuses to take their pills, has never received a valid diagnosis from someone that isn’t on tumblr. I don’t get the fad.

It’s not just psychosis, it’s depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, DID. All valid professionally treated diagnoses. Why???

I was sent home from the hospital after my psychosis calmed down but now I'm stuck in depression. I still have the psychotic symptoms but no longer in an episode. The depression won't shift and I'm back in a crisis bed for safety. All I can think about is death and my voices say I'm not listening to them so may as well be dead.

Is post psychotic depression common and how long might it last?

My biggest hindrance in life now is having flashbacks of psychosis of something that reminds me of hearing voices. It is always triggered by hearing people talking outside which makes me freak out thinking I am hearing things in my head. When I have these flashbacks I feel fucked up like I am on a drug or something. Is it possible to fully recover from drug induced psychosis? Or is it that once experienced it will stay in your memory forever?

I mean this in the most genuine, sincere way possible. I’m relatively new to this side of Twitter and it seems like at least two thirds of the stans claim to have dissociative identity disorder or general psychosis.

Statistically, it doesn’t make sense for so many people in this fandom to have such a rare mental illness. Especially with all their alternate personalities being the people and/or characters from MCYT that they stan, it seems pretty sus to say the least.

I feel like they do this because self-diagnosis is considered valid over there and no one can really call you out on it or else they will be ostracized. But I can’t exactly put my finger on why someone would pretend to have DID? From my viewpoint it seems like stan culture taken to the extreme, and I already thought that max was hit with having creators names as “xenogenders” or “neopronouns.”

I’m not trying to invalidate the few people in the fandom who may truly have to live with DID, but would I be an asshole if I thought most of them were lying?

So It's been more than a year since I last played this game.

I wanted to give it a replay now that I have the DLC finally. But all the new content is really making me feel like a noob.

There's a new Psi system and it seems to be there to really punish full Psi wizards.

So I'm trying for a half build, one that uses Psi as a bonus or opening move, but can fall back on riffles and snipers.

because you have to pay bonus Psi energy just to have more than one school active at a time, I was thinking about just focusing on Mental and psychokinesis.

As I'm playing I chose to pick up psychosis thinking it would be better since its hard to keep my health at max for more than one round of any fight. but the psi costs are ridiculous because of that feat. I know later that I can get a feat that will guaranty a crit, but I don't know if its worth it since I think Telekinetic Proxy and Telekinetic punch will be the only things that will really benefit from a crit, so long as I'm ignoring Metathermics.

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I'm just asking anyone who's played the game more than I have. Is psychosis actually worth it if your only sticking to Thought Control, and psychokinesis?

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PS -- I'm still kind of in the early game, mid GMS building.

just coming here to ask everyone- what do you think (if anything) caused your psychosis? i don’t know a whole lot about it, but feeling like i’ve come close to it before is scary.

Is meth psychosis simply a result of sleep deprivation, or is there something about the drug itself that makes you a little screwy?

And how long did it take you to acknowledge it and do something about it?