[Frokly]

so i have these strange mood swings... where sometimes i'm motivated and sometimes i'm lethargic, but it's always because of the people in my head talking to me and telling me things...

like right now i feel really lethargic again... and my mood is receding... my motivation is a nightmare and i feel like i can't do anything... all because right now i'm in a parallel universe and the people in my head are putting me down, so i had to escape...

its also confusing because i'm so coherent... and at the same time i can socialize well if i need to... sometimes i don't know if i'm psychotic or not just for the fact that i can type this... but my mood swings due to these characters in my head is really starting to effect me worse...

but its just happening slowly in magnitude...

i did have an epsidode where i left my home and started wandering places on foot talking to myself, episode lasted about 2 years and sometimes i would wander looking for people...

i wonder if this is psychotic, any opinions..?

i just feel so lethargic i can't find motivation due to these things happening

[faerie_moon_x]

I really don't know the anwer, but your post reminded me of something.

One thing about the big psychotic episode i had that lasted five years, I was actually very coherent. I was in college for part of it and doing really well, keeping up a 4.0 average at the time (which is even better than I did in high school, when I was just a C student really.)

I was also very social at the time, and not isolating. I had a group of terrible friends (I thought they were great then,) who betrayed me. But, I was very social and going out and having fun. I seemed like your typical young adult I guess. Except for that whole thing about the evil organization that was after me....

[Mr. Radio]

I've been psychotic before and from being the Anti-Christ to Jesus to Santa Clause to Joseph father of Jesus I had quite the trip. Believing I had three wishes and that people were after my family history and other such things. It only lasted 3 weeks. I don't know how anyone could have it longer yet alone for years without brian damage. I feel I've lost a lot. I don't know how it can go off and on. I've only been manic once and now I'm diagnosed as being bipolar. You should get help if these feelings continue, you don't know what you might think of next in a psychotic state. I hope it turns out well for you. Good luck.

[Sometimes psychotic]

So I was totally coherent when I was sick so I continued working through the duration it. its just that eventually people caught onto my deluded beliefs like the fact that I thought I had a heart attack and went to the hospital and called all my friends. But I could type, converse etc in fact I was fine with pdoc for like twenty minutes until my friend asked specifically about one of my delusions then it all broke apart and I told the pdoc about the voices. So my point is you can be competent and psychotic simultaneously. It's called high functioning...consider yourself lucky relatively speaking but get help the longer it lasts untreated the lower you chance of recovery.

[Frokly]

thanks for the replies, sometimes i feel like i'm whining, but at the same time i'm going completely mad, like right now i'm completely serene because i told one of the characters to leave me alone for some years...

so i'm happy again... so now if i'm lucky voices might recede since the other's usually follow suit

this is the first time i heard of other's being psychotic yet so functional at the same time, i never knew it could happen... i've heard of being high functional psychotic now i think i know what it means, i'm in cloud nine again...

thanks

Frokly

[faerie_moon_x]

You are definately not whining. Your questions are very vaild and it's better to ask them than keep quiet to suffer.

I'm glad you're feelin glad you feel a little better today.