Resource How to tell your mind from matter (Cya's guide to testing your sanity)

[Cyagangy]

Hello S.S names Cya and recently I have been slowly succumbing to my psychosis. Don't know how I got it don't know how bad it will get but I wanna make a little guide to help people struggling like me. First off if you can afford it go to a hospital. I can't do I need to test if what I see and or here is real by trying out these tactics.

1: Don't look into a mirror at night while having an episode

This will cause something called the troxler effect to take place. Regardless of your state of mind your brain can't piece together what makes up you and will just make up what it remembers you looking like.

2: Did I hear it or is it a hallucination?

Simply put it, if I hear ringing I am tempted to ask if someone else can but just to make sure I'm not tripping or anything like that I take out my phone and make an audio recording. When It eventually stops I listen to the audio just to make sure.

3: The validity and approximately of sound?

If something sounds far away and quiet yet simultaneously right THERE. It could be a hallucination. I'll update you guys more in the comments while I deal with my psychosis. I find my own psyche to be interesting so I like taking notes on what I'm feeling and what I'm seeing in real time, atleast before I die.

 

[Aura]

Does taking photos by chance help at all if mirrors arent an option? For visual hallucinations

 

[Cyagangy]

Does taking photos by chance help at all if mirrors arent an option? For visual hallucinations

Absolutely! If something is extremely still and it really shouldn't be then feel free to take a photo and leave the room.

 

[BlueButterfly19]

Thank you for your tips. The first time I experienced psychosis it was really scary and a lot of things I was experiencing felt logical and real enough in my psychotic state to shake my foundation of not being able to tell fiction from reality and that shit is horrifying. I REALLY wish they let you use cell phones in psych wards because a lot of the stuff I experienced was torture, essentially hearing nurses and security guards and patients constantly talking shit about me behind my back. Whether all of it was me hallucinating or not is killing me that I will never truly know. I get the feeling they don't let you keep cell phones so you can't record them abusing you.

 

[Cyagangy]

Thank you for your tips. The first time I experienced psychosis it was really scary and a lot of things I was experiencing felt logical and real enough in my psychotic state to shake my foundation of not being able to tell fiction from reality and that shit is horrifying. I REALLY wish they let you use cell phones in psych wards because a lot of the stuff I experienced was torture, essentially hearing nurses and security guards and patients constantly talking shit about me behind my back. Whether all of it was me hallucinating or not is killing me that I will never truly know. I get the feeling they don't let you keep cell phones so you can't record them abusing you.

That's exactly what I thought! I haven't been to a ward yet but I would probably die or leave the country if my family forcfully admitted me, but I thought the no phones thing was bogus.