1st stage : You see a cat. 2ng stage : You talk to the cat. 3rd stage : The cat is talking to you.

I had severe psychosis for seven years before we found a med that pulled me out of it. It was pure torture to go through. I'm so scared of ending up psychotic again

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane” --Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I'm autistic. Life is very hard for me. I've experienced social withdrawal and psychosis. Depression as low as it gets. I was paper thin. It was related to anxiety related to undiagnosed level 1 autism. Turns out the world was much more dangerous to me and my extreme sensory and cognitive profiles. What is real anyway? There's no way to know the consciousness of another or their experience of the world. Reality is a judgement call our minds make in an attempt to keep us alive so we can reproduce. Our senses form the basis of how we perceive and construct reality. Mobs form around shared realities and seek power and dominace through groups and tribes. Autistic people dont understand the hidden language and lies and deciet that govern group politics. So we're cast out of it. Thank god for autistic psychosis. Someone has to call bullsh*t on consensus reality now and then, or we get mob rule. ;-)

TBI pyschosis survivor here.... Even through its been 10 since it(tbi) happened(9 years since the P..break).. Its taken this long to find out That thats what even happened. Thank you for pointing this out!! And thank you for sharing!

Thanks for making this video. I experienced my first episode of psychosis this time last year out of nowhere. Spent 3 weeks in the psych hospital which was terrifying. Lots of bad stuff but also some fun moments like believing I was chosen as the alien queen (😂) I wish there was more info out there so it’s great that you’ve made this video. Thanks from the UK

After a bad argument with my dad I lost my ability to speak- I could only scream. Also, no energy at all-i would try to say something and… blood curdling scream would come out. - I managed to call a friend and slowly came out of it. Scary AF! I didn’t know there was a word for psychologically not being able to speak.

I'm not psychotic but was treated with antipsychotic drugs until I now have irreversible side effects

I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. I relate to your content so much. Definitely makes me feel less alone in my disorder.

I’ve had psychosis 3 times, my 3rd one I just got out of the hospital 3 weeks ago and these videos have educated me so much. These should be in psych wards honestly. Thank you so much.

Thank you for sharing your recovery story so openly. I could see this video reducing stigma for people with psychosis. It was vary helpful to hear your perspective.

This video has helped me understand myself so much I’ve never had an episode before so I’m terrified and didn’t even know I was having one until reading up about symptoms but I trust if I stop smoking weed it will go away gradually I really hope I haven’t lost myself forever I’m gonna come back and update

I had medication induced psychosis. This included olfactory hallucinations. I rarely read about that in the literature. That includes responses by medical professionals. Good to see it mentioned here.

Thanks so much for this. 🙏 Our 24yo son is 1 week post psychotic episode. Just got him back from hospital. Feeling pretty helpless and guilty as parents at the moment, but your video is extremely helpful. He / we have a long road ahead. Thanks again from Brisbane, Australia.

Wow your channel popped up in my feed last night and this is the very first video I watched and I was blown away by how informative it was. For the first time, thanks to your video, I'm realizing that the depression that my daughter experienced prior to getting sick with schizophrenia in 2019 were just the symptoms leading up to psychosis. I never understood that until i saw your video (and I've watched a lot of content on the subject)! My daughter is 23 now and I'm really hoping one day she will recover like you did! I'm so glad I've found your channel. I've subscribed to it so I can learn more about how you recovered from this awful disease. Maybe my daughter will be willing to watch your content too. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Thank you for all the info 💯

That is absolutely amazing talk.think about given talk to researches and medical undergraduate students. 😊All the best .

I am going to watch this, on my tiny channel with commentary to discuss my symptoms (looks like first phase one but for two decades while I have been to articulate the decline to doctors and loved ones). I have language and social aspects and look like I have delusions of grandeur. Thank you for sharing your personal story and including all of the information to be able to recognize the three different phases

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge on this subject.

Love this 🌹thank you for sharing your experience

Thank you for sharing this so clearly - I hope many will see it and learn about themselves and hopefully benefit.

Thank you so much for this relatable and insightful video. Your ability to communicate is excellent.

Thank you Carolynn for being so honest about your experiences. You’ve been through a lot and you’re a brave Angel for describing this. My son is withdrawn from society, his sleep patterns are non existent, no looking at texts ,emails. He has paranoia, OCD regarding health but doesn’t accept that he can get help. As far as he’s concerned, The problem is how other people are with him , they laugh at him, but he does not need any counselling or medication for this. I am hoping there is a miracle and he has some realisation that he needs mental help.

Thank you so much for the informative vid, regarding psychosis. Listening to your experience has helped me, and I now understand what's happening to me. Sending ❤ to you x

I am learning so much from your videos. Your explanation of delusions and hallucinations was especially helpful, as well as the timelines you described in your recovery process.

Thank you for sharing your experiences!!! This really resonated with me. Still unpacking from the experience myself 💕💕💕

Thank you well explained 🇮🇪I wish you the best

Very good description about this fear-driven Disconnection!

Definately understand the two realities. One while interacting and a completely different one while alone, which is about 95 percent of the time.

Thankyou ♥️ for helping me understand what my son is going through.❤ Now to get him to understand 😢

Great video! Thanks for all the info 😀

You're amazing, thank you.

Thank you so much!!

I've only been through drug induced psychosis & also substance withdrawal psychosis. Benzo withdrawal & stimulate psychosis were the worst!!! My brain has been permanently changed but luckily an anxiety disorder is all that was permanent & I'm learning how to live life functionally & happy.

I have bpd and ptsd, and I go in and out of this for weeks at a time, I didn’t even know the phases but it makes so much sense

Cheers to you 🔥

A weird thing happened to me in one of my worse depression. I was convince dsomeone with ill intentions was watching me sleeping. Funny thing is I knew it wasn't real, funnier thing is I couldn't help myself but to beleive it. I pushed my bed againt the wall so I could sleep my back againt the wall, opened the blind and slept with a night light...

I have bipolar and ocd thanks for this video!!!

I've gone through extreme Psychosis before, fairly recently I'd say as this was just a couple months ago, when I was finally back to being "normal" 3 whole days have passed and I had no clue I thought it was just a few hours I was in the hospital for that long & didn't even know how I got there

Thank you for this information. I'm trying to learn all I can about Psychosis, in particular drug and alcohol induced Psychosis. As my sister is currently going through her second episode.

I have 2 sisters, both have experienced drug induced psychosis. 1 only had episodes while using meth and snapped back to reality within a few days after last use. My other sister-my baby sister- has been in an episode for a month now. Not sure what triggered it as she wont be honest about the drugs she's been doing. It began exactly as you described. Right down to suicidal thoughts. Everything that comes out of her mouth has been all lies, so much so that she believes they are true. Shes threatened to kill myself and my mother... threatened to stab me to death and gut our mother ( she and my mother use to be extremely close prior to this psychosis).. she even came to my house and accused me of stealing her child, who she left with our mother that day... She Thinks everyone's against her, when we are trying to help. Has called the police saying a man was following her home trying to stab her and was sitting on her porch waiting for her to come outsode... shes had hours long conversations with my grandfather ( passed away in 2002) and my uncle( passed away in 2014). She doesnt sleep or eat. We've tried everything to get her help, MCAT, 911, police etc. they wont help her because she declines help. She left 10 days ago, never said goodbye to her 4 yr old, hasnt been back and has cut all family and friends out of her life. Shes very up and down.. hysterically crying then hyperventilating and then angry and violent to laughing.. all in a matter of minutes. She cant even concentrate long enough to finish a sentence.. how do we get her help if she thinks we are out to get her and if she refuses medical treatment? I miss her, the real her. Im scared for her and those around her. Im scared for her son and our mother. Shes just not who she was in April of this year... Not who my kids love. I dont know how to help if she wont even speak to me or anyone else in the family or her friends.

I actually did wake up one day psychotic it lasted 9 years and then stopped as suddenly as it started. There were periods of downtime occasionally but it wasn’t a bad experience. I do now have a diagnosis of autism and it is believed that this what caused the psychosis. Since it stopped over a year ago there has been no indications of it returning.

My son has Bi-polar 1, but will only take Lithium which helps his severe Mania and agitation and sometimes rage. He has had delusions now for over 3 months. He denies he has Bi-olar 1, but Im thankful he at least takes the Lithium. Im praying he gets over the delusions. He cant even work like he is now 😢

I love your content as I have mental illness

Fake friends!! Lol Seeing shadow people in your regular wake state is one thing, yet seeing them in the “between” is quite a different thing.Great Video though!

How to help someone currently in psychosis 7 days, preferably without psych meds?

I thought a man's dog was Jesus Christ at the bus station.

I knew someone like that,she was told not to drive anymore by a physiatrist because her concentration had totally gone,but she is still driving. If she has a serious accident she will go to jail,but she would not listen. She was very very unhygienic it's so so sad to see.

I had visual hallucinations with semi-transparent intricate geometry, everything spinning very fast, could breathe them out of my mouth in a specific state. Then the thoughts told me to go somewhere and to sit in the specific place. It was very noisy, there was a construction site nearby, and I was hearing latin religious-like chores (I am agnostic) from above superimposed on the construction noises (functional hallucinations). Then I heard a guy from above telling that he was not guilty and some other guys were accusing him. I was thinking about going and kicking their asses so they wouldn't kill him, but the sounds were from somewhere above the ground, so I thought there was no use in going. They were repeating the same thing again and again. I also knew that these were all misperceptions all the time, but they were the most realistic things I ever heard, so crisp. I still can see geometry on the background and sometimes chores superimposed on some consensus reality sounds, and visual snow, but I concentrate on consensus reality for now. I had sleep deprivation then, I think this triggered the experience.

I've done enough hallucinogens to navigate hallucinations, but i know that they're coming and i know consciously "hey, it's just the acid, relax"

I actually like some visual hallucinations: I close my eyes and get ideas from visions for drawing. But other hallucinations make me feel sadness. If I lie down for awhile I can hear a loud rap on my front door and there's no one there.

Thank you so much for sharing. My adult son is currently hospitalized after suffering 3 psychotic episodes in just over 3 weeks. Can you please share what being involuntarily hospitalized is like, since due to HIPPA, no one at the hospital will tell us anything?

I’ve watched my 26 yo son go through all the stages. This video was so helpful! I now know what to look for BEFORE he goes into psychosis again. I have a question, I believe my son is now coming out of a psychotic episode that lasted almost a year. I’m wondering if he is still having the delusions that he has 2 neuralinks in his brain. He believes that his father (who passed away when he was 10,) did a surgery on him when he was a baby and put the neuralinks in. Do you think I should ask him if he still believes he has the neuralink? Or if he remembers talking to Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Obama through his neural ink? Or should I just leave it alone?

After experiencing the loss / negative effects and eventually coming out the other side, is it normal for functioning to return? I think ive been going through periods of light psychosis where the negative symptoms first kick in and I become isolated, and then my thinking becomes skewed. I always come out of it, but my baseline enjoyment, affect, social abilities are all lower than when I was in my late teens / very early 20s. I know what depression feels like and im not depressed, its like a part of me isnt there that should be. The isolation period usually last 2-6 weeks and my thinking isnt great. It's like I lose part of my identity and my world becomes entirely individualistic and social connection is a distant and abstract notion. My last major one was may 2022 which lasted over a month, and recovery took until early the next year. Was really tough, but I did get back to a good headspace

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. Would you advise that it would be helpful to show this video to an individual who lacks insight into their illness? It’s been taking place for approx 2 years and It’s incredibly painful. Thx

I was in phycosis for a year it was terrible the auditory persecutory halucinations were so bad 6 different voices constantly from the time I woke up till I fell asleep it was hard to stay focused or calm constantly in fear of the strangers around me thinking they were a part of the whole scenario barely eating thinking nearly everything was poisoned and even my family was in on things it was hurtful because i thought for a long time they must have been replaced because my family wouldn't do that but it was extram halucinations it unfortunately was a medical medication mistake from a dr and not checking for any thyroid condition before antipsychotics witch i didn't need anyway because it made it worse and only exsasorbated my thyroid condition sending me into a much bigger phycosis 😬 luckily im back home and my last halucination was last march i believe still it scares me and my ths(thyroid hormone) lvls are still too high.

I can go into psychosis and back out again. I've only just found the cause. For me, it's nicotine. It works on the chems in the brain that induce thinking, causing me extreme anxiety. The results together after the over thinking is either the passages of the downwards spiral, which is my trauma, or the fact that psychs were overdosing me on antipsychotics for years.

Heyy thank you for your explanation i really need to hear this. Can you tell me what have u practise or done in order to feel better when you started to talk and think better .. did you do any therapy?

It's very real still believe today that people were out to get me although get told differently it's phychosios

I have DID but my psychotic episodes were caused by a contact-high I got from a neighbour in my apartment complex smoking copious amounts of marijuana which was coming through the ventilation system. I'd love a video on how you avoid/manage triggers like this

The words :"faith-based" is a common, yet unfortunate phrase. Perhaps 'belief oriented' religious imagery or narratives makes more sense. Faith is a spiritual empowerment -- on 'seeing things as they are' as an immediate rapport with Life. Radical 'self-acceptance' suggests a trust in 'not knowing' yet relying on the broad pervasive sense of peace. Nice job lady.I hope your accurate road signs point others to also live in the authentic moment.

The hallucinations are the worst. Is there medication out there to stop it?

I’m currently 22 and I wonder if I experienced a form of psychosis as a child. I started to hallucinate at the age of 12 (faces, mainly eyes only, staring at me from tight/ closed spaces, like cracks in doors/doorknob holes) and by the time I was 13 I had delusions that were in the conspiratorial category (along with the previously mentioned visual hallucinations), and I had that through a lot of high school. At 14 I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder and severe depression after a self-harm incident (I had also previously attempted s**cide about half a year before). I no longer believe in those conspiracy theories or that powerful figures are targeting me, and I don’t feel like harming myself and haven’t for a long time, but I do struggle with disembodied eyes. Eyes seem to sometimes trigger that paranoid feeling in me that I recognize from my younger age. And if I watch conspiratorial-related videos that I used to watch when I was younger, I start to feel anxious. Some sounds can even trigger my paranoia. Back-masking of songs/voices can trigger my paranoia. I’m aware that they’re all delusions but I can’t seem to shake the way they make me feel. For the past few years, I’ve felt like a normal person again, and that I outgrew the problem that I had. But here lately, my life has been a very stressful one, and I’ve noticed these symptoms rear their head once again after so long. Not as intense as they once were, but enough to make me feel like there is something off. I often struggle with delusions in my relationship as well. I tend to have frequent moments where I feel like I’ve destroyed my partner’s perception of me, and that they don’t love me anymore. Or that they secretly can’t stand me and feel like they are stuck with me. They calm me down and reassure me, but it seems to happen over and over, and it feels like I lose control in those moments. It’s like I tell myself that this is a delusion but I can’t stop. I was never diagnosed with psychosis, only anxiety disorder and depression, but I’m wondering who I should go to in order to talk about these things. Is there a specific type of psych doctor? Is it specialized? How do I convey these concerns without them misdirecting me or misunderstanding me?

Can you talk about which medication helped your delusions.

Hi! Wouldn't you say there's actually a sixth category of hallucination, like when you feel your body changing shape or you feel yourself moving or flying even when you're not moving, or feel thoughts enter your head from outside or the thoughts move in your head from one side to the other or crash like waves? I suppose very generally you could call most of these "somatic" experiences as most of them relate to the body in space, but they're as different from ordinary "tactile" sensations (you could argue) as taste is from smell...

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Does the prodromal phase show in bipolar 1 as well?

Can someone please help. I have been diagnosed with psychosis and depression 3 years ago I am on some meds that are ok but my question is. Is psychosis a Symptom or an Illness? Because I need to know if I am being lied to. Much love from Britain 🇬🇧

How and where u get help for any of these symptoms

I know someone who seems to be experiencing a Psychosis. It has been 3 years. I don't think the person is aware they are going through this. I personally thought it was a "phase". The person's loved ones are at the brink of calling the authorities to take them to a medical facility. I have reservations about what the family is thinking of doing. I am wondering a person who is going through a psychosis and is not aware will see the light if evidence is presented to them so they can seek help themselves. i am conflicted.

Can you get psychosis and become delusional from continuous gaming for several years?

To the mind that was overtaken by knight's move over 40 years ago, it was WW1 & 2, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia wars, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and Gaza wars all being funnelled through it. It was so unfair. Why me? I would plead to god and devil both for release. If it was because at some point I was designated as "chosen", I commanded the universe to free me of that.

I had an episode recently it was scary I thought god was mad at me at time I wonder if it was God am I not hearing it no more cause of my meds or is god mad at me I don't know honestly and I'm depressed constantly now and scared at times cause it felt so real I heard whisper that's about it and I felt like I was on fire my back felt like that then I started hearing my own thoughts too

Wakey Sodium levels can also cause psychosis

Talk more about how your beliefs have changed.

Is there an explanation why there are never positive hallucinations? Let's say cute bunny talking funny. I mean, anything that is happy or relaxing? Why are the senses can only outburst with terrifying and uncomfortable things? Why bugs under the skin instead of a butterfly sitting in your hand? Why all psychosis are a some kind of a torture instead of let's say in simple definition a lovely daydream? I can assume crisis can invoke psychosis because maybe reality is unsettling, but why the brain makes the situation even harder instead of putting one's mind in a nice state, even if not real. Why all hallucinations are of bad things? Did someone figured this one out? Why does the brain makes such crazy BAD stuff instead of GOOD? I really have to wonder about that. Of you still don't understand the question let's take example from nightmares and sweat dreams. Both unreal. But good dreams have no special reason too. Yet the brain can create them while sleeping. So hoe come there was never a "positive" psychosis reported? Like "I lived in a magical valley eith unicorns and adorable little furry naive pet". If you get me. Why is it always do dark and damned and nightmare-ish???

what zodiac sign are you?

the unfortunate world of mental instability....with little education

The main cause is bad behaviour of mother father siblings. Stress trauma

Spread that mycelium

OK blue hair, nose ring.

Well at least the cans are nice

Thanks for sharing