Is it possible from it?
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Yeah, esp if you were delusional or unwell. Sometimes the delusions I had made my heart race; with crippling anxiety. My old ptsd was tied to that and an awful hospital experience.
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Going through psychosis is traumatic and for ages afterwards. Best to rest up and recover
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I think so
I can start to have anxiety just remembering memories of psychosis
I had dreams about that that made me feel bad the whole day
Just something remembering me that memories can make me anxious
I think I was traumatised by my psychosis
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I was traumatized by my psychosis
I think the worst part was my own mind lying to myself. I have known from early childhood that you can only trust yourself, and then I got psychotic and my own mind was lying to me. so I can not even trust my own self anymore? it was brutal. my delusions were so real and strong and totally untrue. but at the time I thought it was all real, and I just trusted myself when I should have not. how can you recover from such betrayal of your own mind?
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Definitely. I was talking today about how our illness isn’t really dealt with. In that sense, all of us are abused significantly by the voices we hear when we hear them often. It’s the case that we feel like we are victims and no one addresses that in the medical community
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Yes, I do believe there is defos damage incurred from psychosis as well as post-psychosis trauma.
I think both are similar but separate phenomena that can happen to people living on the psychosis spectrum.
Psychology and psychiatry do an okay job of addressing the occurrence of most symptoms while acknowledging they can disrupt certain facets of life. But, these sciences don’t really touch on the roots and meanings behind hallucinations and delusions, which may help unravel and lessen their significance and help heal the people who experience them.
In short, it’s very real and very overlooked.
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I completely agree. I think it’s actually amazing that we don’t all have therapists who directly deal with us as victims of abuse. Almost every single person that I know who hears voices experiences abuse of some sort
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I was in shock for 10 years worst than PTSD
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Yeah it is. Pyshosis is traumatic.
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Bro .they are just realizing how traumatic this illness is man.
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Its not ptsd with psychosis, it basically should be called tsd, traumatic stress disorder
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I had one in particular that really really traumatized me. My wife took me to the hospital because I was having severe symptoms TD tardive dyskinesia. They put me in the regular hospital. I guess they decided to DC all my antipsychotic medication. That’s all I remember from reality. I came to a week later and I was in four point restraints. What I remember was hospital staff trying to kill me. I saw a big vat of water with numerous dead bodies in it. I thought they’d put me in it too. There also was my oldest daughter telling me I killed her baby. That’s not even the half of it. It was vivid and real and so traumatizing. Especially the part about my daughter
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you all survived this, all of us are stronger then we think
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Yeah for sure. My first big psychotic episode broke me. I was a teenager in a high intensity adult psych ward for many months straight. Extremely psychotic at every moment. Messed me up.
But its not over. I have hope for myself.
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