Seems like symptoms are creeping back

At first it was the constant nightmares, meds were keeping them at bay, but now they are nightly again. I have been more stressed so I'm hoping they'll decrease when my stress level goes down. Been tasting blood again, and have been checking my mouth often to find if it's real or not (it's not). Hearing crying and music again and various other sounds, but the voice hasn't come back. The other noises I have been trying to hunt down and it seems like the things I think might not be real it's kind of 50/50 on. I'm tired and everything is putting me on edge lately. I've also had panic attacks starting up again. Not full blown, and I've been able to talk myself down, but it's a few times daily now. Has anyone else experienced symptoms coming back with increased stress, and then disappear on their own without a med increase?

Sorry things are stressful right now, icky.

My son has "symptoms" come back with increased stress, and they die down again when the stress passes. Just keep an eye on yourself and see how things go. Pull out any stress management tools you have. And if you need a temporary increase in the dosage, don't be too proud to do it.

I think stress is a pretty common trigger. I know my symptoms are worse the more stress I'm under.

I hope you start feeling better soon.

Yes, moving and starting uni in Sept both caused my symptoms to get worse. Things are better now the stress has died down. Hopefully the same will happen for you

*Willow*

hello ickydog,

how ya feeling today

hugs

I finally took a half a sleeping pill last night so I wouldn't have nightmares. Thankfully I was able to sleep in and got 11 hours. I still feel really tired though. Hallucinations are definitely worse, but the panic attacks seem to be lessening.

my symptoms increase vastly with stress and meds don't seem to help my psychosis anyway so.. i don't take them

This is EXACTLY what happens to me. I'm not on meds & my symptoms aren't usually hugely severe, so IDK if they'd peek through. But even if I'm going through a relatively normal period, I'll always get a spark up of hallucinations & weird daydreams if I get too stressed out. It usually resolves itself within a week or two, lately. Once in as little as three days!! But a few months back, when I was in the thick of it all? Just one piece of bad news had me in a tailspin for half a year! I think you'll get through this... The tension of the situation on top of the tension of experiencing it at all just makes it more difficult to see.

Sometimes even when I'm on my meds, things start to creep up. I hear whispers all of the time. They are always here, but the meds keep me to realize that they aren't there. Sometimes I can't ignore them. They are always trying to get me to do things. At least when I'm on the meds I know the whispers aren't real. So I don't give in to them. I find myself arguing a lot with them, which freaks out my roommate because all he hears is me. I don't know if this is good or bad.

I am like all of you by that when stress happens and gets worse so do my symptoms. Next year is expected to be hell for our family(and great for the world) but I pray that I am wrong. The reason why is that dad is planning to retire with very little money. he has 4 people to support because my brother and I don't have jobs due to our disabilities. My mom doesn't work either so money will dwindle away into nothingness. I pray I am wrong. Then surgeries. I hope all of you do well i am sorry if any of you are experiencing symptoms. It is normal to experience symptoms during stress. My pills don't have ANY effect on my symptoms during stress and its like I have no pills at all. I pray for all of you.

Update: Visiting my hubby for a week and a half. Ever since I got here, it's been amazing. All of it has backed down to nothingness like when I first started meds. I hope I can stay destressed for the next couple months without him.

Thanks for coming in with an update, icky. I've been thinking about you.

Well, I got three days of relief anyway. I know I should be thankful, but somehow it feels worse when everything comes flooding back. It wasn't even like things were slowly getting worse. It's like one day nothing, and the next night nightmares and loss of reality. I don't know. I'm just so tired right now. I woke up so confused this morning and have spent the day trying to figure out what was real or not. I've given up. It's easier to just keep my mouth shut and not talk about things since I don't know what is going on.