These stories of psych wards are scaring me. I hope they're not all like that. My pdoc tried to encourage me into one last week, but I avoided that and am working to get on track without it.

About the topic of the thread: I have not had a psychotic break, but I have a question about the shadow people that someone mentioned. When I'm really stressed and in a dark place, I wake up to shadow people (usually one, but different ones on different nights and sometimes more than one but that's unusual). When this happens, I'm still somewhat asleep, and I don't think of them as hostile. Since I'm not fully awake, I haven't thought much of this, but this is the first time I've heard anyone else talk about shadow people. What is this about? Should I be worried?