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Originally Posted by healingme4me
I agree that talking it through can be beneficial. Do you currently have a T and Pdoc(psychiatrist) ? T's are quicker to get appointments with, than PDocs.
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I don't have either right now. I saw a therapist every month for about a year on an unrelated problem. We weren't making any progress, so she thought she might ask me questions under hypnosis. This made me worry that therapist was secretly part of the conspiracy against me (the conspiracy that exists only in my mind of course). I explained what I had experienced a few years earlier and she told me it was psychosis. I felt she overreacted and started getting pushy and angry and trying to make me feel like I was not mentally competent? I can't find the right words to explain, but it made my depression much worse. I decided not to go back to that therapist.
I tried another therapist a year later. The first session seemed promising, but then I started having overwhelming anxiety for several days. Finally I told that therapist I couldn't do any more sessions because it was causing anxiety.
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Originally Posted by healingme4me
It's scary to bring fears, and possible delusions to those in such positions. A primary doctor with old world/school understanding of superstitious beliefs, can be a useful doctor, to have.
How to address a spiritual emergency without making it sound like this is an everyday occurrence, seems to be the heart of the matter.
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Yes, you got it exactly. I hadn't realized this is the issue, but you are right. I see this as something that happened one time and won't happen again. My problem now is simply anxiety and paranoia resulting from memories of that psychotic episode.
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Originally Posted by healingme4me
If you are under care, then there's an excuse, for a sober visit in your home. My primary, once addressed my then husband and myself, together, about the ires of alcoholism and the effects it can have on some people. I'd recently, at that point had a nervous breakdown, compounded by the discovery that I had MS, still post parthum and in the heat of August. It was my then husband being addressed as an alcoholic.
Guess, the point is, any type of break is so very scary to bring up. If you are behaving calm and in a cry for help, without being a danger to self or others, you'll get the help you need.
Really hope others can chime in, here...
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I'm sorry to hear about the MS. and other stresses in your life.
Hopefully you are finding ways to cope and things.
That is a good point that breakdowns are caused by stress and things. I was stressed to visit my friend before the psychotic episode started, because I had reached the conclusion that he wanted a romantic gay relationship with me and also because he tended to be more wild and I didn't want him to get me into a fight or visit strip clubs or something. I just wanted to have some drinks and talk about the good old days. I could feel something was wrong several days before I actually had the breakdown. Weird things kept happening all weekend. Finally I just snapped when I got home.