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Originally Posted by lizzielight
Hi everyone, I just joined. Hope you are well today.I related with your post. I was diagnosed with "Psychosis" in 2009, when I was 29 but it wasn't a lifelong thing. I was a teacher for 7 years before it happened. It was onset by an experience where my tires were slashed. It wasn't gradual. Don't really think I have or had all the symptoms of Psychosis- no voices or anything, back then I just thought I was being stalked after the tire slashing thing. Psychologists say that Psychosis is brought on by drug use, etc but that isn't what happened to me.
I love making art/crafts as well but also have a huge imagination. It got the better of me and I had a life changing experience that I got scared from- the scary event that happened around Halloween 2009 has altered my life since then, that I am getting better from. What are your experiences? I feel like I could write a book or screenplay for a movie with what I experienced and thought. Thank you, so grateful I found psychcentral today.
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I'm new to this site as well. Went looking for a site to go to for support and to talk with other people who are bipolar. I kind of live in a small town.
Feel free to share. I'm a good listener haha.
As for my experiences it's a little long. I started showing signs (But didn't know tell later that it was bipolar) in high school. Around 9th grade I started having huge problems with depression and anxiety. Everyone thought I had GAD. Then roughly around 10th grade I started hearing voices but never really did anything about it and never told anyone. As I got older it just kept getting worse and worse. I had moments of strong mania as well. One moment I'd feel very high and full of energy and then the opposite. I remember being with my girlfriend one time when I was 17 and I just had a completely break down. My mind started going crazy, strong intrusive thoughts, voices in my head just wouldn't shut up. I started to cry rivers and curled up in a ball punching myself in the head to make it stop. She got really freaked out, scared and thought I was going to hurt her. Later I started to calm down, but I could hardly do anything. I tried to read but it was as if I couldn't read english. Things just kept getting worse. Then when I was 18 she cheated on me. I was biking back from school feeling very high as if I was on tons of drugs, but as soon as I got home it immediately changed to a 10 on the depression scale and I tried to kill myself. Ended up in the ICU for a day and in a psyward for two. Afterwards I was diagnosed and started on meds. I'm 22 at the moment so I've been dealing with everything for awhile now. I have to work pretty hard so I don't forget my meds because even if I miss a single dose everything is pretty unbearable.
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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
Do you have any advice for when those moments happen? Go to the bathroom turn the water on a drip, close your eyes and breathe with the drips and count the drips backwards. It doesn't take them away it makes you less frantic about it which helps reduce them because its stress related.
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Thanks for the advice. I'll try it next time something like that happens.
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Schizoaffective Bipolar type and Panic disorder with agoraphobia-
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