[swimmom]

Hello everyone. I have recently been diagnosed with paranoid schiz. with del./hall. and my med combo seems to be helping some. However, now that I am coming out of the "fog" I've been in for the last couple weeks, I am scared that I'm going to lose my life as a pretty normal mom and wife. Yesterday morning I woke up in another fog-like state; like someone had drugged me and the paranoia and hallucinations (voices) came back. Now, I'm scared to go to sleep because I might slip away from reality and not come back. Seems like when I go into this "fog", I keep going in deeper until I'm just barely recognizing what's real. I'm a mom, a wife, and a graduate student; and life was going fairly well until now. I'm scared to death about what's happening to me. I have a good doctor and therapist so that helps. My husband is also supportive. Does anyone else ever have this fear? Thanks, and it's good to be here.

[MickG]

I often find myself worrying about falling into the pit of nonexistence while still being if that makes any sense.

I haven't found medication helpful but some apparently do so if it helps I say let it and I wish you and your family the very best.

Much peace.

Hello, and welcome to PC and the Schizophrenia/Psychosis forum! I hope you find friendship and support while you're here.

To answer your question, indeed I have had the fear of slipping out of reality completely during times of mania/psychosis. Please be sure to tell your support system (doctor, therapist, husband, etc) about how you are feeling. I wish you the best of luck in tackling these symptoms.

[TerminalxDarkness]

i have that fear alot. i seem to be losing my sense of reality more and more everyday as well, it is most certainly not fun, but just hang in there, its hard to tell much about schizo/psychosis type problems bc they always change, but i wish you the best of luck, and your support system should help

[___Shadow___]

Originally Posted by swimmom

Hello everyone. I have recently been diagnosed with paranoid schiz. with del./hall. and my med combo seems to be helping some. However, now that I am coming out of the "fog" I've been in for the last couple weeks, I am scared that I'm going to lose my life as a pretty normal mom and wife. Yesterday morning I woke up in another fog-like state; like someone had drugged me and the paranoia and hallucinations (voices) came back. Now, I'm scared to go to sleep because I might slip away from reality and not come back. Seems like when I go into this "fog", I keep going in deeper until I'm just barely recognizing what's real. I'm a mom, a wife, and a graduate student; and life was going fairly well until now. I'm scared to death about what's happening to me. I have a good doctor and therapist so that helps. My husband is also supportive. Does anyone else ever have this fear? Thanks, and it's good to be here.

YOU took the word out of my being. I fear this so much that I worry even when I feel sort of normal that it will come back again with a even bigger mess than the last. It's so hard when you have one's that love you, yet easier too, to all that they want and what you want for them and that does't ever seem to add up to this fear. But remember alway that your kids and husband would rather have you with this than NOT at all. I tell myself that everyday to get thro this and has kept my head JUST above water so far.