Schizotypal culture is having strange and distorted visual perceptions that don’t quite feel like psychosis but also it’s not normal either 🥲
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told someone i'm schizophrenic and they ask "are you sure it's not just your mind playing tricks on you" bro what the fuck do you think schizophrenia is
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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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My consciousness strays, but it doesn’t matter, I find the greatest serenity in hallucination.
Clarice Lispector
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To be clear, this is asking about paragraphs of spoken conversation, not just having a song or phrase stuck in your head.
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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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if you *really* want to try and understand psychosis, I always offer the experience of dreaming.
Almost everyone on the planet dreams, and I find it to be a perfect comparison for psychosis... Anything can happen in a dream and you don't question it. This is your reality. If you're suddenly an astronaut, you don't typically question it. If there's suddenly a dragon, you don't typically question it. A monster can crawl out of the bushes or a stranger can appear in your house. Anyone can be someone they're not. Danger can come from anywhere. A pleasant dream can easily become a nightmare.
The only difference is that you wake up in the morning and it's over. And most people don't judge you for it. When you "wake up" from psychosis, there's often shame and people judge you.
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Telling me that being upset by my intrusive thoughts is proof I'm a good person did jackshit to help me, ngl. In fact, all it did was make me feel like I HAD to go down a spiral of horror and self-hatred any time I had those thoughts in order to prove those thoughts didn't make me a monster. I still feel like that.
But the most helpful advice I got about them was genuinely just to treat them gently. Laugh. Roll my eyes. Go "not my brain acting up again 🙄" or "Bro, I do no want to do that, shut up 😩".
Like...Telling people their suffering is proof they're good people isn't really helpful, in the long run. Or at all, for plenty of us. We need to be working WITH our brains, instead of constantly fighting against them. I have this tiny section in my journal, where when I was feeling okay, I wrote myself a note on intrusive thoughts and hallucinations and there's a line I keep in mind:
"Having thoughts-it's like an ocean; shit washes up sometimes. And then, if you let it, it gets washed away."
You have to let it wash away. You can't pick up every piece of crap that washes up and study it, keep it in your little backroom, trying to determine why it's here and what its purpose is. Babe, you're not a marine biologist. Sometimes bullshit is just bullshit and you've gotta train yourself to recognize that. You don't have to be disgusted every time you run across it. You can just keep moving.
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ANYONE who has experienced hallucinations for any reasons can reblog this. i dont care if youre psychotic or if youve just taken hella drugs im just curious.reblog this if you can. thanks :)
be normal on my post or ill put you in the labyrinth btw
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some schizophrenia symptoms that aren’t normally talked about
confusion
restricted range of emotion
incoherent thoughts/speech
lack of motivation
boredom/anhedonia
social withdrawal
apathy
trouble sleeping
taste and smell hallucinations
distorted thinking
thought blocking
poor memory
catatonia
labile affect
i usually see schizophrenia described in terms of paranoia, visual/auditory hallucinations, and delusions - so i thought I’d put together a list of other symptoms that may be present!
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I'd love it if more people understood the difference between hallucinations and illusions. So let me try to explain with examples. [TW: examples of auditory hallucinations and illusions described as you experiencing them]
1. Imagine you are home alone with your windows closed and it's silent. And then you hear unfamiliar voices talking about you, it sounds like they are coming from another room. You go to check but no one is there. Your brain created entire voices of people out of thin air. This is a hallucination. There is nothing but your brain creates something.
2. Now imagine you are in the same scenario but your windows are open but the curtains are closed. You hear your neighbors having a conversation, and you hear it as them talking about what you are doing in that moment. They couldn't possibly see what you are doing, so realistically they can't be talking about you, but your brain makes you change the words and hear it that way. This is an illusion. There is something but your brain changes the real thing into something unreal.
It's not always easy to know the difference when you are experiencing it. But if you do know which one it is (nothing there and something unreal appears or something there changes to something unreal) then I think it can be really helpful to label the symptom accurately.
For me it was helpful to gage the effectiveness of my medication. I noticed that I have more illusions than hallucinations, and for me that was a sign of improvement. It can also go the other way, to see if your psychosis is getting more severe.
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"Mental health matters" until its a minor struggling with substance abuse
"Mental health matters" until someone doesn't want/refuses help
"mental health matters" until someone struggles with an addiction
"Mental health matters" until someone is unable to do 'basic' hygiene
"Mental health matters" until someone is deemed violent and scary
"Mental health matters" until someone doesn't 'look like' their struggling
"Mental health matters" until someone has bulimia or bed
"Mental health matters" until someone wants to get worse
"Mental health matters" until someone is a dropout or unemployed
"Mental health matters" until someone has disturbing intrusive thoughts
"mental health matters" until someone is delusional
"Mental health matters" until someone struggles with hallucinations and hearing voices
"mental health matters" until someone is extremely scared of other people
"Mental health matters" until someone has violent outbursts
"Mental health matters" until someone has trouble masking/ can't mask their illness
"Mental health matters" until it doesn't fit your romanticized view abt it
(feel free to add onto this)
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I don’t think my therianthropy and mental illness can be separated. I feel so fundamentally different from my peers that I see myself as not human. Connecting with humans is very hard for me. My anxiety causes me to want to hide and growl like a frightened animal. My hallucinations cause me to feel things that aren’t really there. Sensory issues cause sensitive hearing. My dissociation and body issues cause me to feel separate from my body. I feel that this vessel I pilot is not me, but just the tool I use to interact with the world. I am mentally ill, causing therianthropy, but I am still a therian. The cause of my therianthropy doesn’t invalidate it. I have a screwed up creature brain teehee!
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