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Jul 27, 2010, 08:22 AM
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Im not sure what an psychotic episode is Im still learning about my bipolar symptoms. can someone explain it to me ? Who knows I might have had them and not of even known it !
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Jul 27, 2010, 08:41 AM
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I started a thread a bit further down that I tihnk explains it quite well, with people's personal experiences too. Psychosis can occur during a manic as well as a depressive phase - the manic one seems a bit easier to explain (Hallucinations, hearing voices, false beliefs...) thna the ones experienced during a depressive phase.
I was dx'd Major Depressive Episode with psychosis, but I do not know why the psychosis. Other than that I really felt my life was pointless and useless (Which was apparently not the truth and hence the pdoc felt I was having negative delusions...?)
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Jul 27, 2010, 08:52 AM
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Haven't really spoken about this except for with a T, so forgive me if I'm not eloquent...
My psychosis presents itself as my personality unraveling... Indecision, volatile arguments (out loud between myself and other me's) detachment from reality... I was very scared, very very very scared. I knew that "this" wasn't accepted, yet it was very real. her voice was so real, taunting me, provoking me, disagreeing with every decision I made. I could HEAR HER, telling me how worthless I am. I don't like her... Once I drafted a plan for a 2.0(thus my name) the plan consisted of who I wanted to be (since "we" couldn't decide) It stipulated my personality characteristics etc. I know I know, NOT normal, but in my defense I was detached when I wrote that... I'm not sure if I was articulate enough... Just before the depression hits, I start feeling out of sorts, emotionally fragile, with a sense of foreboding...Then she rears her ugly head, I don't know who or what but I've named her Celeste' since she's been with me so long (Way before I knew I experienced psychosis) Before her voice didn't bug me much, she was like a decibel louder than my conscience, ( very easy to dismiss) NOW... now I hear her outside of my head, sO loud and she won't stop, she just won't shut up, she won't stop saying terrible things about me, she won't stop telling me to do terrible things ( SI, SUI) I don't like her, she scares me, but the pills made her shut up, so who knows maybe I'm finally free. I guess it's loss of contact with reality, and I know everyone has a different experience, I think I'm lucky compared to what others go through...
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