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schizopositivity · 2 months
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Do you have a severe mental illness that can/has caused a mental health emergency? Are you currently stable? You should make a basic safety plan! [Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, this advice is taken from my own experiences and what I learned in inpatient psychiatric facilities. This post caters more to those who experience severe psychotic episodes as that is my experience.]
1. Find a safe person. Someone you often spend time with that you can trust with the details of your mental illness and feel safe around. Ask them if they are comfortable being the person to look out for you if you have a mental health emergency. Preferably someone you live with. If no one you live with fits this role, find someone you contact regularly.
2. Explain to the safe person what a mental health emergency looks like for you. Think of the way you presented in the past during mental health emergencies and try to describe it. You may have to describe it based on what others have told you if you had memory loss during episodes in the past.
3. Let them know how they can check with you to see if you are in a mental crisis. You might need them to ask you some questions to gage your mental state (examplse: Do you know where you are right now? Are you able to talk?). Tell them what questions to ask to find out if you are in a crisis.
4. Explain to them what you would want to happen in a mental health emergency. If they are able to see that you are indeed in a mental health emergency, what steps would you want them to take? If you will need to go to the hospital, but don't want to interact with police, let them know to tell that to emergency services. If there's a nearby inpatient facility you would want to go to, tell them which one and give them their contact info. If episodes typically pass on their own for you, let the safe person know how to keep you comfortable and safe until it passes.
5. Have an easily accessible contact paper or note on your phone with some basic info in case you can't speak to professional help while you are in a crisis. Add your name, birth date, your diagnoses, and exactly what medications you take and the dosages. You can add specific warnings or triggers about yourself (examples: Doesn't like being touched by medical professionals. Can react violently to loud noises). You can add contact info of people you'd want to let know about your situation. You can add your insurance information if you have it.
6. If you would have to go to a hospital/inpatient facility, let the safe person know if there's anything else you'd want them to handle once you get there. (Examples: Pack a bag of clothes for the inpatient stay. Feed my pets while I'm gone or ask someone else to. Contact my work place for me and let them know I won't be able to come in.)
Yes this is a long list, but I feel it's important to prepare and get your bases covered while you have the capacity to do so. Often when someone is in crisis they don't know how to ask for help, or what to do once they get help. Thinking of everything ahead of time saves you the extra worry later, or the extra worry of guessing by the people around you.
And if you are thinking "this is too much work to make someone else do!" Consider how much harder it would be if they found you in crisis and had no idea what to do and you wouldn't be able to tell them. If you have a severe mental illness that can/has caused you to be in a state of mental health emergency, you deserve to be cared for by others during the crisis.
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n0-al-3n8y · 7 months
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elliot summarizing appointment with psychiatrist
new hallucination came up during lmao was fun (no)
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bunniibpd · 1 year
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One time in the height of my delusions and hallucinations I had a friend shove a mirror in my face and tell me “look! There’s nothing in there! See? Nothings going to hurt you!!”
I just want everyone who doesn’t experience delusions or hallucinations to know that exposure therapy should be left in the hands of professionals! Otherwise it will worsen the stress and anxiety the person has who’s experiencing these delusions or hallucinations.
The best approach to these situations are just to listen, try to understand, and provide a sense of comfort to the person. Don’t feed into the delusions and don’t try to dispute them!
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borderline-culture-is · 2 months
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Bpd culture is jokingly calling yourself psycho or a “manic pixie dream girl” but then it hits you that you actually have psychotic episodes and delusions and not knowing whether or not to still laugh at your own jokes
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schizodiaries · 9 months
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ten ways I cope with psychosis
Grounding techniques — Make use of the five senses: Listen to your favorite song. Run your hands under cold water. Taste your favorite snack. Smell your favorite candle. Look at beautiful artwork. Be mindful about the sensations you feel while engaging in these activities.
Listening to music — My go-to way to deal with auditory hallucinations. I recommend listening to instrumental music, if you are prone to ideas of reference.
Creating art — A good creative outlet takes the focus away from my psychosis and towards whatever it is I’m creating. Plus I can make something that symbolizes how I feel while psychotic.
Taking a walk — This can be hard to do if I’m psychotic, as the paranoia makes me think people outside are watching or following me. So what I like to do is pace the hallway in my house. It helps me keep my mind off things.
Journaling — Writing out what I’m feeling can be an immense relief, especially when I’m experiencing delusions. Also I can also look back at these thoughts and reflect on them.
Identifying triggers — Discovering what makes you psychotic can help to prevent future episodes. (Be mindful about who you share this info with as others could use it against you.)
Breathing exercises — When I’m psychotic my stress and anxiety levels ramp up. Just one minute of deep, steady breathing helps to keep those levels under control.
Spend time with pets — Pets don’t judge you for being psychotic. They’re perfect for snuggles, and running your hands through their fur reduces stress and anxiety, and makes for a good grounding exercise.
Asking for reality checks — Sometimes I have trouble telling what’s real and what’s not. When in doubt, asking a trusted person for a reality check can be very helpful in dispelling delusions or paranoia. If you’re alone, recording with your phone can help to verify if you’re hallucinating.
Finding a community online — One if the worst parts of psychosis is feeling like you’re completely alone in this. But you’re not. I found communities of psychotic people on Tumblr, Reddit, Youtube, and more. I find that being around people like me helps me feel less alone in my mental health journey.
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s0larize · 1 year
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talkingattumble · 6 months
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Ok gonna talk about some system stuff here sorry followers. Tw for light description of trauma
It’s very isolating to be a system with trauma from psychosis. I’ve had hallucinations, compulsions, obsessions, and delusions, since I was little.
At a certain point in my life, they got extremely violent. The things I experienced were extremely traumatizing. The things I can remember, I’ll never forget.
Despite that, it’s still technically all in my head. It wasn’t real. It was my brain going insane and making me see feel think taste hear and do things that never really happened.
So when I talk about my trauma. People don’t take it seriously. And call me an endogenic system. Because they say “well how can you be traumatized by that it wasn’t real”
But I still felt all those things in excruciating detail. I did things that affected my body and my relationship with my loved ones and my possessions. I lost an important period of my life, I didn’t develop the same as other kids, and I’ll never function the same again. It was traumatic! Even though it “didn’t happen”.
Also, my system stemming from trauma due to psychotic episodes and during a psychotic episode means it was originally structured very strangely and unhealthily. My inner world was warped and abstract, because my logic and perception of everything was warped and abstract too. There were only two rooms, both of which were incredibly hard to exist peacefully in and had no path in between. My alter was formed for the purpose of trying to kill me. Which was part of my delusions at the time. We were constantly flickering in and out of front because of the constant stress of hallucinations. We don’t have ages. Our appearances are very very loose to each other and based mostly on a vague outline filled in with color.
My system operated weirdly. My trauma was not something many other systems shared. This made me feel very outcastsed. Just something I wanted to talk about.
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petrichoremojis · 1 month
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ID: A drawing of an arrow pointing towards a hospital. End ID ID: A drawing of a person inside a hospital. End ID ID: A drawing of an ear above a check mark, next to an eye above an X. End ID ID: A drawing of an eye looking down at a brain. End ID ID: A drawing of a brain next to an up arrow and down arrow. End ID ID: A drawing of a melting brain. End ID ID: A drawing of an iPad with the wifi symbol on it, which is crossed out. End ID ID: A drawing of a circle on a brain. Inside of the circle is a spiral. End ID
More drawings. "I need to go to the hospital". "hospitalized", "I get auditory hallucinations but not visual ones", "self-aware", "it's coming and going", "I can feel my mind slipping", "I can turn wifi off", and "psychotic episode". Those were the meanings in mind, but of course, use however you see fit.
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notcallherbirdie · 6 months
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wrote a poetry collection in 2020 during a complete psychotic break and these are some of the results
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221bluescarf · 10 months
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sweetbonbon · 2 years
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Love when people ask me how my day was like gurly I don’t remember I was dissociating all day what do you expect me to say
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n0-al-3n8y · 7 months
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i mean.. im not even trying at this point
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queerpossums · 4 months
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it feels like there are bees in my head. nothing feels real and everything feels floaty and not there. moving just makes that zappy feeling worse and i can feel it travel down my spine and into my limbs
i can’t tell if it’s a neurologic thing or a psychosis thing or both
probably both
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Self destructive to the point where I almost WANT to go into psychosis.
I want to feel that fear again
I want everyone to know that I’m sick
That it’s not for attention
I want to be alone again
I miss being lonely.
What is wrong with me?
Maybe I’m just used to it. Not having something wrong in my head is weird to me. It’s uncomfortable even.
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lowkey hoping some of those "im so delusional 🤪(is not actually delusional)" people have a psychotic episode and see what it's like to actually be delusional. (/j for legal reasons)
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