things people have done to help me during a psychosis episode
i was on the buss and i hallucinated bugs crawling all over my hands, so my friend pulled my hoodie sleeves over them with permission and held my hands through the sleeves to "keep them off". they used the logic you would in a real bug situation.
i went nonverbal in a bad one in class, so my friend wrote me a note to give to the nurse since the teacher wouldn't let her go with me.
i often am very paranoid about the delusion that meat is actually rotten, so my dad will sometimes eat a bit of it before me
instead of telling me my delusions arent real, they help me through it using logic like it was real. they dont tell me that nothings going to hurt me in my sleep, they stay with me to keep me safe. then when it passes i can realize its not real
edit: i am not a doctor. i am not saying this will work for everyone, the only reason this works for me is because I have short term delusions typically. Typically, it helps me most when people point out the things not real in a loving manner AND help me as though it is
this is not advice for helping every mentally ill person
i am glad it is helping so many people tho! i love you all and I never thought this would blow up.
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“the intrusive thoughts won” “that’s psychotic” “i’m so delusional haha” “narcissistic abuse” “the weather is so bipolar” SHUT UP!!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
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quick reminder that delusions are strongly held, fixed beliefs not based in reality [edit] and aren't reinforced by communities and social groups (so things such as QAnon largely aren't delusions because they're being actively reinforced by an insular community that encourages its believers to ignore any evidence to the contrary) that cannot be changed even in the face of evidence against them. a delusional person's conviction in these beliefs is just as strong as your conviction that the sky is blue. some delusional folks have the ability to double book-keep (understand that what they're experiencing is a delusion), but this does not make the belief any less sincerely held and the ability to do so varies from person to person and from delusion to delusion.
you cannot choose delusions, delusions are involuntary. (note that for some folks already prone to delusions, however, hearing about certain delusions will lead to them developing those same delusions)
someones ability (or lack thereof) to double book-keep does not make them a "better" or "worse" delusional person. and--speaking from experience--some folks can technically double book-keep, but doing so is incredibly distressing and can make things worse. (for us, some of our beliefs help us maintain our hold on reality in other areas, and attempting to double book-keep and acknowledge them as delusions (even if (if) they might make that specific belief more manageable to deal with) would make it significantly harder to keep our hold on any aspect of reality as a whole; we call these load-bearing beliefs/delusions, depending on how far removed from it we are [whether or not we've stabilized enough to be able to acknowledge it as a delusion, or even not believing the delusion anymore, without it unstabilizing everything else])
being delusional is morally neutral, but they are often also incredibly difficult to manage and can make life incredibly worse (note that for some folks, certain delusions may be pleasurable or comforting; the feeling associated with delusions aren't always negative. however, this does not make it not a delusion, and that does not mean they are any more voluntary. finding pleasure/comfort in them also does not exclude them from making general life harder; many delusions may also influence and exacerbate other delusions)
delusions are not your funny silly buzzword to use when you're feeling quirky, it's not another way to say "vividly daydream and get emotionally attached to the daydream" or "get extremely attached to a piece of fiction to an unusually intense degree" (which for some reason i've been seeing more and more of lately), and "delusional" is not an insult or a derogatory term. "delulu" is demeaning and only serves to show that you don't care about delusional people.
stop throwing delusional people under the bus.
(and while you're at it, start tagging your unreality shit, too.)
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i wish the world was a more gentle place to psychotic people
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If you struggle with substance abuse but not addiction, you still deserve support. If you struggle with suicidality/self harm urges but don't act on it, you still deserve support. If you struggle with psychosis and paranoia but have insight, you still deserve support. If you struggle with anything but are "coping with it," you still deserve support.
You dont need to be in imminent crisis to get help - safety planning, harm reduction, resources, and accommodations. You're still struggling. You're still suffering, You're still at risk/in danger. You deserve better - you need better. Your health and wellbeing matters.
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Hey wanna be a better ally to people with delusions, mania, dissociative disorders and other disorders that effect your view on reality? Heres a simple tip! STOP TAKING PICTURES OF OUR SHIT AND REPOSTING IT
See a car around town with funny writing about the world ending soon or the government injecting people with microchips? NOT YOUR PROBLEM
See a post online written in a frantic cadence where someones providing their unhinged perspective on something relatively mundane? SCROLL RIGHT ON BY
See a dirty man in public holding a weird sign and talking about things that dont make sense? GIVE HIM A BOTTLE OF WATER MAYBE BUT DONT YOU DARE TAKE A FUCKING PICTURE
See any of the things described above posted for shock value and laughs? CALL IT OUT OR IGNORE IT
See something like the above but the person in question has politics you disagree with? YOUD STILL BE A CUNT IF YOU TOOK A PICTURE
Ive been that psychotic person before. Ive been screencapped without my knowledge by people who wanted to get a laugh out of my (unhinged) beliefs. This did absurd amounts of damage, got me harrassed, made me paranoid.
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a delusion does not mean a person should ever be dismissed, brushed off or disregarded.
delusions are beliefs that are extremely hard to shake regardless of how self aware we are.
a delusional person is not quirky, not rambling nothingness for the sake of attention, they are serious.
from believing youre dead or dying (cotard's) to believing your halucinations were real, these things are terifying for us. theyre real for us.
just because you know its not true doesnt mean we're making it up. we deserve to be heard, listened to and helped just like you and your issues.
delusional is not and should never be nor should it ever have been an insult. its a serious issue. take it seriously.
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psychotic besties. I mean this dead seriously: do not share the nature of your psychosis online. do not tell internet strangers what triggers you. the internet is already cruel enough to those of us who experience psychosis, and there are people out there who will think it’s funny or interesting to use your psychosis against you. please be safe out there!
and anyone who likes to trigger peoples’ psychosis on purpose? fucking stop doing that
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Can y'all please stop using words like "delusional", "psychotic", and "narcissistic" as insults. These are terms used to describe mental illness. Mental illness does not make people evil, stop acting like does.
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so sick of seeing "their poor parents" in regards to someone who is delusional, psychotic, or otherwise "not normal." any time the topic comes up, someone's there to drop that steaming pile of shit. i promise you, the caretakers aren't suffering half as much as the person they're caring for. but nobody talks about that part.
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Hate the word 'quirky' people call themselves 'quirky' and 'weird' and then go an bully autistic and psychotic people. Bring back eccentric, i liked eccentric. Autistics and psychotics should reclaim eccentric
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Unfortunately, I think stigmatised disorder (personality disorders, psychotic disorders, etc) culture is realising something you experience has a name and finally feeling seen, but you go to google it for more resources and only find people talking about how horrible and morally evil you are for daring to have that symptom you never chose in the first place.
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Anti schizoposter propaganda
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one aspect of schizophrenia i dont see talked about very much is one that is, in my experience, the most personally upsetting. and thats the breakdown of word articulation. as i write this i'm havign trouble even putting words to describe how its hard to put words.
i used to be a prolific (fanfiction) writer. i can barely formulate tumblr posts at this point. it's not even that i was a particularly good writer, but it came so easily to me to put words on paper. i've always been a little bad at talking out loud due to my autism, but that used to be much better too.
it's just genuinely upsetting to me. i would trade my medication out in a heartbeat if there was one that treated this instead of my positive symptoms, my ability to pass as 'normal' be damned.
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talking to other psychotic ppl is genuinely a breath of fresh air,,
i talked to someone for a bit about my creature hallucinations, and they told me they experience similar ones,, they said they leave out little treats for them, and i talked abt how sometimes i let them pick things out when im shopping,, it was so nice to be treated with respect even while talking abt smth that would get me judged anywhere else
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