Hi everyone,

Despite joining this site in 2007, I logged in, logged straight out and only came back yesterday.

Anyhoo, I'm 2 weeks post-psychiatry session at which he told me I had some kind of emotional dysregulation disorder. And boy was I surprised to find that out...So I'm a little clueless. Surprised and doubtful yes, but that's a story for another time and my mind is open to all possibilities.

I have one question for now - what, if any, experience do you have of a micropsychosis? I had 3 nights in a row when for very short periods of time, I saw and felt things that weren't there. I couldn't be sure that they were NOT there but they didn’t seem entirely real enough to BE there. At various points over an hour or so, there was a guy standing in my hall, a moonlike face at the window, something orange crawling across my kitchen floor, a bush outside had developed human features. Everything was just staring at me. Then add in an ongoing conviction that somebody was at the front door who had come to “get” me. That last one came and went a few times. I ended up crouched on the kitchen floor yelling “Get away! Get away!”

The following night I felt the radio was speaking to me and I knew everything the presenter was saying because I’d heard it all before - even though I hadn't, of course. I was arguing back at the presenter (nothing like my usual radio-arguing when listening to political stuff though). I was incredibly restless that night and ended up taking a sleeping tablet at 4am because I was so worked up.

I told my psychiatric nurse this when she came round the next day. I got a fairly neutral reaction.

And it hasn’t happened since except for some major restlessness on some nights.

I looked this up online and that’s where I came across the concept of a micropsychotic event, which is essentially a very short lasting break from reality.

I had taken no drugs (I don’t anyway) and no alcohol. I was still on my old antidepressant then and it was certainly not due to that. Nor was I knowingly stressed at the time.

So – any of this sounding familiar? Any explanations?

Much thanks