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May 23, 2013, 06:35 PM
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I had these two very short "happenings" both in 2011 and I now do not know whether to "DSM" them (catalog them, pathologize them, etc.) or simply... enjoy.
1) While on high dosages of multiple meds, I started reading a long poem that I used to know by heart because it was part of my HS literature curriculum. All of a sudden though I started seeing in the poem what I had not seen earlier, and, at some point, it seemed to me that the snowstorm from the poem started to fill the room, right off the words on the laptop's screen. I did know that the snowstorm did not fill the room, but so it seemed. 2) While being off drugs for a few days, it started to seem that large city buildings danced (it was in a real snowstorm) on the streets, and, in my head, a poem started composing itself, about the joy of my blood that was released from Lithium's grasp and was dancing in my veins and arteries. Slightly different poem lines were going through my mind as if I were trying to see which was best. Both events were quite short. I would not remember the poem now. I never wrote it down. So - psychosis/mania or not? Or just enjoy life and do not question and over-analyze every freaking little thing? Thanks! |
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May 23, 2013, 06:40 PM
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Sounds like psychosis/mania to me but that being said the DSM insists that you must have impairment for it to actually have a mental illness...doesn't sound like you were impaired so I'd just see it as something really fun that happened.
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May 23, 2013, 06:41 PM
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Sounds like me. I say enjoy but if they turn scary tell your pdoc.
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May 23, 2013, 06:50 PM
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Sounds med related to me. Agree with moose - enjoy the experience. You had a creative burst whatever the reason, and that's your interesting memory to keep. I know psychosis can turn ugly but that one sounds very cool!
One of my most intense hallucinations was when I tried lexapro. Swirling rainbows - but I was in an int'l airport having flight anxiety so it turned bad. Looking back, too bad I wasn't just somewhere else and enjoy it. I like rainbows lol. |
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May 23, 2013, 07:04 PM
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Oh... drug-induced hallucinations. Right! I forgot about that.
My most vivid hallucinations were on Depakote. The things I saw and heard... boy, they made me think of Narnia. |
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