Do you believe people get back to normal after psychosis?

I'm not the same person pre psychosis. It's been 6 years. Now I'm on all these meds. Before the psychosis I was only on 2. If I try coming off the zyprexa I get really paranoid and can't sleep. I'm only on 2.5 mgs and 3 mgs of invega. But I am learning to accept the new me. My psychosis involved trauma from the past too so some of it was true. It was really scary.

I think some ppl can snap back tho.

I don't think I will ever be the same I think it took a part of me permanently away. It is like my brain is broken I can't think and process the way I used to and it makes me so sad because it has taken away the one thing I truly loved doing and now I feel my life is pointless.

What is considered normal? I know this much I will never be the same after suffering my last manic episode.

I believe we can. I would not want to have no hope...

What were you diagonised with? and how long has it been?

What were you diagnosed with? I've been diagnosed with psychosis 5 months ago and i'm currently struggling with my self esteem and social skills, it's like i'm not the same old person anymore.
Any advices?

I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 with psychosis. I've only had one really, really bad psychosis in my life and am currently going through another at the moment, though with a med increase it is helping a little. We shall see how long it takes to get out of this. I've been in this current episode for over 2 months and on med increase for about 5wks. I'm hoping it's near the tail end of this episode. Fingers crossed...

I've always had self-esteem issues all my life and even with therapy I really haven't gotten over these issues. However, I do credit therapy for helping me through psychosis and collecting the pieces afterwards. I'm currently not in therapy atm, but the wife wants me to get back to seeing her because of this psychosis I'm going through at the moment. I'm currently fighting her on the issue. I dunno why, I really like my therapist but I just don't want to go, something inside of me says it's the wrong thing to do.

My best advise would be therapy and getting on the right meds. Therapy is a life saver with the right therapist that is. If you need to talk feel free to pm me and we can talk some more about it.

Bipolar 1 and it has been years since the first time but about 7 months since the most recent episode.

Don't stop fighting!!
I hate to see someone that is depressed from the illness. Try to do some exercises, watch a T.V series, listen to music.
All of these things helps to recover from your illness, especially the exercises.
Some say we can go back to normal, some don't.
But it's worth a shot, right? (:

Yeah I am still trying.

It took me a good 2 years of not working, then another 3 working but symptomatic. Now it's 10 years since my episode and I feel balanced with some severe, but short-lived, bouts of mania and depression every few months.

I definitely am not same person. My psychosis changed me forever. I remember bits and pieces of each episode, but I can't help but think how REAL it was for me. That stays with me forever.

I am in a currently struggling with what the psychosis meant and how it affects my spirituality.

as far as "healing" after my psychotic break....that took a while. it was as if my brain had melted. I couldn't read my thinking was shot, I got paranoid more easy and it was traumatic. slowly things got better though not the same I would say.
but psychologically, once you have been to no man's land how could you ever be the same?

(SZA) I used to be a very creative person and now my creativity is basically nonexistent. I also used to listen to a lot of music and now I can't because it reminds me of times when I was mentally ill and brings all the bad feelings back. I also struggle intermittently with concentration.

I feel like a completely changed person after psychosis, however with medication I have achieved some level of stability and feel that I can at least function most of the time. I still have occasional small flare ups but everything is much better controlled than it was before medication.

I've given up on being the person I used to be and am instead trying to get through each day. Sometimes I find things that bring meaning to my life but other days I struggle just surviving. I'm also always nervous about my perception of the world and my ability to tell what's real from what's not real. The possibility of another devastating episode always seems to linger around the next corner.

Couldn't what you feel now be due to medication? I've read a lot about being slow, emotional numbness and the constant tiredness due to the medication.
Are you taking any? and what were you diagnosed with?

I like to think I have. Right now I am struggling but before I was stable after a long hospital stay and multiple med changes I got better.

I think being psychotic created pathways in my brain that make it easier for me to experience psychosis again. So no... I don't think I've fully recovered.

I think much depends on the duration, severity, and possible repetitiveness of the psychotic episodes.

I've only really experienced psychosis a couple of times, for very brief duration, and I can't say it had any lasting effect on me. My husband's one psychotic episode went on for about a week. It was pretty severe, but he recovered and other than that oddness of how real it seemed, he got back to normal too.