#actually schizospec

[takingmytimeonmyride]

Everything is so tiring it hurts

[wheelie-sick]

I'm in some sort of funk right now but I'm not sure what sort of funk just a sort of funk

I'm not depressed but I'm not not depressed

I'm definitely not manic

evidently I have some psychosis remaining

idk

it's a funk

[kick-the-moonlight]

A Person Experiencing a Psychotic Episode Doesn't Always Need a hospital

In fact, they often do not. Sadly, all too many friends and family members see this as their one and only solution when an episode presents itself. The end result being the patient trapped within a psych ward for upwards of a week or even more despite having fully recovered within the first day of being sent. This could be avoided with a better understanding of how people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia operate.

Psychotic people become familiar with their condition over time. They recognize what “the psychotic feeling” entails. While this doesn’t mean that they can just shrug their symptoms off as if they were dust on their shoulders, it does mean that they can work through them with time. A far shorter amount of time than a psych ward would put them through.

Sadly, too many psychotic patients have families who do nothing apart from rush to call 911 the moment bizarre behavior is observed. This course of action will often be detrimental rather than helpful to the patient as well as worsen the relationship they have with their support system. A relationship that is a large part of the patient’s wellness.

If the patient isn’t harming themselves. If the patient isn’t harming others. Give the patient the time that they need to mellow out. That is usually all that they require

[foxboy-alone]

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Userbox I made using this flag

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Dissociation is Nothing to Brush Off. It can be the Root Cause of Many Common Delusions

It is no secret that certain delusions possess core similarities. You're in the matrix. You're trapped in a coma. You're in an afterlife. Your reality is a simulation akin to The Truman Show. These delusions have one underlying characteristic. You're perceiving altered reality. It's off in a way you can't explain.

Your worldview has been slightly warped from the way you've always held it tight. It begins slipping from you gradually. This is exactly what dissociation is. A reality disconnect. So much so that your brain grasps at straws to explain the phenomenon. This is the shaky foundation wacky delusions may stem from. Rationality needn't apply.

With the aid of modern entertainment and perhaps an overactive imagination, it's far from difficult for one to conclude that their reality is being simulated somehow from only a mere touch of dissociation. There is seldom a logic filter to weed it out.

With luck, the dissociation is short lived and one can return to the boring old universe that we all occupy. However, lacking such luck, it has been known to last for hours and even days.

While this symptom is left to fester, the delusional explanations are doing a number on your mind. Providing the opportunity to dive ever deeper down the schiz rabbit hole. Not fun.

How harmful could this be? The sky is the limit. Picture a delusion where your dog is not real and requires no care. Terrifying. One can only hope help arrives before disastrous damage is caused.

Dissociation should not be thought of as a minor symptom. It's a gateway symptom to madness. The marijuana of psych issues.

[takingmytimeonmyride]

I just ordered pink crutches! FINALLY I will have the mobility aid that I genuinely need. I'm so excited for it to come home ^^

Even though I just know my parents will tell me that "I don't need that" no. Mobility aid are for using them if you need to, and I need it. I hope they understand that I really need them and don't tell things like "you will become even weaker" because walking is painful for me, and absolutely tiring, if something helps me to live my life then I don't see anything bad on it.

Remember: If you need a mobility aid to live your life easier, ask for it or buy it if you can. Nobody should be ashamed to use mobility aids.

RaRe out~♡♡♡ stay safe

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Why Do So Many Psychotic Patients Begin to Believe They are Faking Their Symptoms

You will occasionally hear it in support communities. A person who has spent countless hours complaining of nearly all symptoms that schizophrenia causes only to one day show up claiming to not have any schizo-related anything. They assert that they are some sort of fraud. They have been faking all along. Malingering is the term. Are they right?

Well, I suppose it's possible. Malingering wouldn't be a medical term if it didn't happen. In most instances, this is highly unlikely to be what is occurring. These "fakers" don't take the tone of one giving a confession rooted in guilt. The tone they do take is a persuasive one. The self-proclaimed faker is trying to convince their support buddies of what they wish was true. More importantly, and primarily, the motive is self deception. Why?

The simplest answer is that it is easier to claim to be a liar than it is to have a highly stigmatized condition. The complex answer goes deeper. When a psychotic patient is in a stable state of mind, they look back on their episodes through "stable glasses". They genuinely believe that they could easily have thought their way out of their last crazy mind state if they only tried. Indeed, while wearing "stable glasses", they firmly believe defeating psychosis can simply be accomplished with pure will power if an instance were to occur once more in the future.

A lucky few manage to never get the opportunity to put their imposter claims to the test. Their symptoms never strike them hard again.

The majority? They slip into a psychotic mindset and show to all who observe that they weren't con artists at all. They instead demonstrate that there is just no using logic to snuff out a major breakdown. A warped ability to think clearly will prevent use of will power long before you realize reality checking techniques are even needed. They can't save you. Not when the organ needed for rational thought is the one malfunctioning.

All too often, through sadness and hardship, the schizophrenic is shown to be the furthest thing from a fraud. They…unfortunately…were perfectly honest.

[veritablewordsalad]

i feel like when i post or talk i do it explicitely so others make fun of me or side eye me or treat me like something's wrong or talk down to me . maybe part of it is an effect of the gaslighting, but i also feel like i'm becoming further and further off from people, the silence is an acceptable response too, though i feel like i'm fading off track off-track kilter, pace, rephrase, that i'm terrified every day, and so and so again, i lost it. That I'm having problems, people are pretending that everything is fine, that's what I'm afraid of, people thinking everything is fine, I think I think that as well, I don't know left from right anymore, I mean I don't think I ever did. Right from left and right from incorrect. Right in the head. Right in the head. I'm left-handed.

I think back on when I was starting highschool and people would glare at me like there's something incredibly bizarre and off about my whole vibe even if they were just passing me in the hall, I think that's what I'm feeling, that sort of difference, I'm all far-off from bodies and talking and warmth and feeling, and there's nobody glaring at me this time. all alone. There's a dissonance there. How do I know if there's something wrong with me if nobody else is giving the signal? Never had a chance to do it by myself. Trying to talk about an every day experience and it gets concerns, I'm not trying to vent, I'm just trying to explain what's happening to me, been happening to me, going to happen to me...I don't understand the purpose of sympathies