Discussion Psychosis Experiences

[leoneliona]

For those of you who have experienced psychosis for any reason, what was it like? What triggered it? I have recently realized I experience psychosis from depression and am curious about the similarities/differences.

 

[NotSoEnchanted]

For those of you who have experienced psychosis for any reason, what was it like? What triggered it? I have recently realized I experience psychosis from depression and am curious about the similarities/differences.

I experienced psychosis after ODing on a variety of prescription medications, and being injected with ketamine at the hospital when I awoke from a coma. From what I remember, I was terrified and miserable. From the little snippets of lucidity I had, I desperately wished I could pull myself out of it and was scared to loose myself again. I remember crying a lot, being scared of myself, and really not understanding where I was/what was happening. When I finally snapped out of it, my family told me I was flashing people, begging for imaginary animals to be rescued, trying to escape the ER, being incredibly unkind to nurses, and all in all not acting like myself. This experience left me forever distrusting of myself, and scared to go into psychosis again. I've experienced some gnarly depression, but never the type to where I lost myself like how I experienced above.

 

[leoneliona]

I experienced psychosis after ODing on a variety of prescription medications, and being injected with ketamine at the hospital when I awoke from a coma. From what I remember, I was terrified and miserable. From the little snippets of lucidity I had, I desperately wished I could pull myself out of it and was scared to loose myself again. I remember crying a lot, being scared of myself, and really not understanding where I was/what was happening. When I finally snapped out of it, my family told me I was flashing people, begging for imaginary animals to be rescued, trying to escape the ER, being incredibly unkind to nurses, and all in all not acting like myself. This experience left me forever distrusting of myself, and scared to go into psychosis again. I've experienced some gnarly depression, but never the type to where I lost myself like how I experienced above.

God damn. Hitting you with ketamine right out the gate is actually wild LMFAO. No seeing what your baseline is or making sure you came off the meds or anything. I'm sorry that happened :(
Yeah, my depression and anxiety mixed together to make some wild psychosis episodes. Didn't help that I was unmedicated though, but from past experiences I was pretty traumatized with psych care. Kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario in my head until I was hospitalized and medicated.