Venting hallucinations?? or something

[eternaldeath]

not really sure how venty this is considering some of my other posts, but i keep seeing things. it might genuinely be a problem because i keep having nightmares and ever since i was younger ive had a phobia of mirrors but now im seeing things in them. there was this sleep paralysis demon i saw after i passed out from a panic attack and i saw it again in a nightmare last night, and a couple nights ago i stayed up till 5am because i was having really intense hallucinations and delusions of not being real and just seeing demons or something and i didnt wanna sleep because i was scared of sleep paralysis. ive experienced intense paranoia n stuff like this before, and have been dealing with it for years, but its been getting particularly worse now and i dont really know why.

 

[Escape Artist]

Sleep paralysis is terrible. And the worst thing is that the more sleep you lose over it, the more likely the paralysis and hallucinations will get worse. I know that my psychosis is often triggered and made worse by sleep deprivation. I have brain abnormalities that I was born with and that I've had surgeries on, but it still causes a lot of weirdness. Maybe you have something neurological going on that should be checked out, or maybe a sleep disorder like narcolepsy. I have a friend who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia but it turned out he had narcolepsy.