#actuallypsychotic

[psychotic-psypport]

The insidious part of "its just a joke" regarding psychosis is the BLATANT double standard.

"The voices told me to!" "Delulu!" "Is [blank] in the room with us?"

All treated as acceptable!!

I make a joke about my very real symptoms from my very official schizospec diagnosis that very genuinely ruined my life for several years?

Not acceptable!! It makes people sad!! I'm no fun at parties!!

The fact that actual sufferers of a condition are told to keep certain details to themselves AND are expected to put up with bullshit jokes is absolutely outrageous.

We are allowed to be the joke, we are not allowed to make the joke.

[schizosupport]

Being psychotic is very often traumatic and I think that's something that is overlooked. People sometimes joke about delusions like "haha they thought the government was spying on them personally", "haha they thought there were people living in their walls" etc, but to do that I feel that you have to completely disconnect from the fact that WE REALLY DO BELIEVE AND EXPERIENCE THESE THINGS, so it's like... Do you think it's fun to be targeted by an oppressive government? Do you think it's fun to live through a literal horror movie? REALLY?

Like this is not even getting into how many psychotic people end up hospitalized which is often its own very external source of trauma.

Delusions and hallucinations are traumatic by themselves.

I grew up believing that the other kids in school were literally plotting to euthanize me. I joke about it because it's painful, but that shit fucked me up. Growing up with a massive target on my back, knowing that I might be killed if I let my guard down. It was traumatic! Even if it was all in my head. Turns out that's where humans process their experiences, anyways.

[neuropathyfordpines]

If you have speech issues due to brain fog or psychosis or schizophrenia spectrum or intellectual disability or aphasia or whatever reason love you forever. We are not stupid, we are not freaks, we are disabled (if you identify that way) and deserve to be normalized. Speak "strange" forever

-schizophrenic with somewhat constant disorganized speech and writing

[tatemcgucket]

No spoilers but if you are a psychotic Gravity Falls fan planning on reading the Book of Bill *please* be warned there is heavy unreality and things that may be triggering or personally upsetting. It's ok to engage at your own risk or even skip this one. It doesn't mean you can't have fun or enjoy the story and fandom. Please, your health comes first and I love you <3

[sikeosis]

Being someone with psychosis, it can be difficult to tell others who I’m friends with/know that I actually, really am schizo-spec or experience symptoms.

For some reason when I tell people I experience or have experienced psychosis and that’s a part of my diagnosis, people assume I’m just being “dramatic” with my words or just saying it in the moment. Like, no.. I actually have a mental health condition, I’m not using delusional as an expression of speech, or saying I’ve experienced episodes before as some random thing to just say. When I say it I’m just telling the truth and being serious.

[vamp1rate]

i love you schizophrenics. i love you schizoaffectives. i love you schizotypals. i love you everyone on the schizophrenia spectrum. i love you psychosis experiencers, i love you addicts, i love you sleep paralysis experiencers, i love you anyone whos had a bad trip, i love you current and past users of medications with hallucinatory side effects, i love you people with depression and/or anxiety with psychotic features, i love you experiencers of hypnagogic and/or hypnopompic hallucinations, i love you spoonies who have hallucinated from medical procedures/drugs administered during medical procedures, i love you sleep deprived students under too much stress, i love you people with a history of trauma, i love you anyone whos hallucinated while sick from high fevers and/or too much cough medicine, i love you people who hear things that aren't there, people who see things that aren't there, people who smell things that aren't there, people who taste things that aren't there, people who feel things that aren't there both inside their body and out, i love you people who experience one type of hallucination, i love you people who experience multiple types of hallucination, i love you people who used to hallucinate but don't anymore, i love you people who currently experience hallucinations, i love you people on medications for their hallucinations i love you people who aren't, i love you everyone and anyone who has ever hallucinated for any reason. thank you so much for your existence on this beautiful earth with me.

[polyporpoising]

it sucks how, even in supposedly "accepting" spaces, you're only worthy as a schizophrenic if you're on meds. if you're unmedicated, especially if it's by choice, you're "one of the bad ones". you're dangerous, you're violent, you're a risk. schizophrenic people are only people if they choose to take medication for it.

and like, anti-psychotics aren't some inherently evil, life-destroying thing. they do a lot of good for a lot of people, and some people really genuinely need them. but as a schizophrenic person who's not on anti-psychotics, who is trying to avoid them for various reasons, it sucks when it seems like others will only accept me and treat me with respect if i agree to something that goes completely against my wishes and wants. it sucks that something that's good for some schizophrenic folks is treated as a necessity for all schizophrenic folks.

[itsm00nlite]