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Originally Posted by CopperStar
Isn't that nuts sometimes how people don't recognize it? I think it's denial, honestly. I once flipped out and was very upset because I thought the government was coming to round us up in FEMA camps to kill us, and I was very upset in a distressed sort of way, not an angry way. But then my mother and her husband took it personally and turned it into a huge fight lmao. They were genuinely pissed off at me and engaging as though it were a normal fight, and I was psychotic the entire time. Weeks later when the episode was winding down and I looked back on that fight, I was just like wtf really?
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I think it is certainly denial. I once took a 6 hour shower. My husband was awake for 4 of those hours. When he came in the bathroom, terrified, I told him it was the Holy Spirit and he needed to leave. He did leave and, instead of committing me, he claimed to buy into the whole Holy Spirit thing, even asking me questions like "what does it sound like when God speaks to you (even after I advised him that the Holy Spirit had cast demons from me by making me vomit evil spirits)?" It was me who, after almost a year, finally decided that the (at that point) arguing with demons about whether or not they would steal my soul for going back to a psychitrist was in fact delusional. So I talked with my husband and we argreed I should go back to a psychiatrist and get back on meds. To this day, I still don't have a viable explantion for why he accepted my extrordinarily radical behavior. It was his first major experience of a bipolar episode, especially a manic episode and he claims he was just afraid. But, he was plainly in denial.