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Old May 02, 2016, 09:18 AM
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A year or so ago, my mental health was really really bad, to the point I could not leave the house. And it lasted for three years. In those three years, I experienced symptoms I don't experience anymore.

I used to think there was a man living in my house trying to kill me. I used to not be able to watch TV because I was afraid of what they were trying to tell me. And all kinds of irrational fears like that.

And those symptoms lasted for three years. When I was younger, I had similar, milder versions of those symptoms - but I also had OCD, so that could be the reason.

Right now, I barely experience those symptoms. Even when I do, I can tell it's just my anxiety and it's not real. I've felt okay for a year and a half now. Now I only experience depression, anxiety and dissociation.


So I was wondering, is it possible to have symptoms like that temporarily?
I don't know what happened because I didn't go on any meds, they just stopped happening. I don't want to ever go through that again, of course, but I'm curious!

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Old May 02, 2016, 12:27 PM
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If this is all the result of Therapy, this will not happen again.
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Old May 02, 2016, 02:22 PM
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Hello sensatives: Well... the Skeezyks is certainly no expert with regard to this sort of thing. But what I can say is that over the course of my long life (I'm an older person now) my "constellation" of symptoms, so to speak, have come-&-gone, wafted-&-waned... sometimes stronger... sometimes weaker... sometimes appearing one way... sometimes another.

During some periods I've felt pretty healthy, all things considered. At other times I've had some real difficulties. A lot of it, I think has had to do with what was going on in other parts of my life. If I was under pressure & stressed out things were much more difficult. Also I would imagine that such things as hormones play a role... especially when one is young.

So anyway, from my perspective, I don't think what you describe is necessarily unusual. I don't know that it is so much a question of some of the symptoms you used to have being "temporary" as it is simply that mental health symptoms can & do change over time. I wish you well...
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Old May 04, 2016, 01:23 AM
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If this is all the result of Therapy, this will not happen again.
I've never spoken about this to my therapist. And is that true? Therapy can guarantee full recovery?
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Old May 04, 2016, 04:12 PM
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Recovery takes much time. It will never be "full". Learning is a life long process. Be sure to tell your therapist about this.
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Old May 04, 2016, 05:59 PM
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psychosis (having delusional thoughts, delusional beliefs that turn out to have no real basis to them, hallucinations) can be short term or long term, they can come and go with and with out treatment. sometimes it happens to me when I havent gotten enough sleep, but then when my body has gotten enough sleep the hallucinations and delusions stop, sometimes when I am not eating correctly I will have the same psychosis reactions but once I change my eating habits the delusions\hallucinations go away. sometimes I have hallucinations and delusions when I am under stress. if I take time to take care of myself and de stress my life a bit the delusions and hallucinations goes away.

my point is there are many different things that can cause a person to have short term or long term psychotic reactions like hallucinating and having delusional thoughts, delusional beliefs...

if not knowing where your psychosis type symptoms came from and why they suddenly went way continues to bother you contact your treatment providers (doctors, therapists, psychiatrists...) they will help you to figure out what was causing it and what made it go away.
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