Psychosis

[Smilla]

What are the signs and symptoms of a depression with psychotic features? Does one have to actually hallucinate or experience delusions to be considered "psychotic"?

 

[therhydler]

I don't know but I do know that I certainly have no hallucinations or delusions but I'm being given antipsychotics

 

[therhydler]

I think that psychiatrists consider the will to ctb and the belief that I can't live any more a delusion. They even say so... so they consider me "delusional"

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I think in the strictest sense, it's defined as losing touch with reality. That could mean visual or auditory hallucinations, but from what I understand could extend to losing your grasp on the world around you. So possibly losing time, not knowing where you are sometimes etc.

 

[Smilla]

I don't know but I do know that I certainly have no hallucinations or delusions but I'm being given antipsychotics

Damn. Did you ask why? Aren't those drugs "difficult" to take and only to be used as a last resort?

 

[Eden2k]

I started experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) first. Started with one voice, whispering the odd word to me throughout my day.

After a few weeks developed into being shouted at, insulted and ordered to end my life.

My mood was/is affected by this dramatically, which only fuelled the voice. Started with just the one voice, now I hear four. Suffered from delusions of persecution and paranoia in the past. Now just experience low mood and voices.

 

[therhydler]

Damn. Did you ask why? Aren't those drugs "difficult" to take and only to be used as a last resort?

I really think they think I'm delusional because I want to ctb... I have no other explanation. I wasn't really interested in what they were prescribing me at the time just wanted to get out of that freakin hospital... and have the chance to ctb

 

[Final Escape]

I only developed psychosis from rexulti, adderall in moderate dose, and skate liver oil. One time I ordered skate liver oil to decalcify my pineal gland lol! Well I was taking too much but I didn't put it together right away. I started to feel like I couldn't concentrate, depressed, but also I became agitated. I started becoming very suicidal, and went to the store to look for rope to hang myself with. I didn't take it one day and felt a bit better and somehow I put it together that it was the skate liver oil. I lowered my dose and I was ok again.

 

[sólstafir]

For me psychosis felt like I'm tripping with mushrooms, except it happened without mushrooms. I didn't experience hallucinations or hear voices, but I felt like I'm in the center of universe and connected to God - so delusions? Who knows, blissful feeling.
I've also had an episode when I said things without filter. I've always been really quiet in life, so I guess at some point my brain snaps behind these social walls, so suddenly I feel confident in my body and that's weird for others. I never even argue with anyone, but being a bit psychotic means I could actually say things back! wow.
My brain sucks, but I think antipsychotics have ruined it even more. .

 

[Xerxes]

Depersonalization for me and definitely withdrawn to the point where only me and the voice in my head are in a joint meeting to see why I should be blamed for everything bad that happens.

 

[Smilla]

Depersonalization for me and definitely withdrawn to the point where only me and the voice in my head are in a joint meeting to see why I should be blamed for everything bad that happens.

Hmmm....I think I know what you are experiencing or experienced.

 

[NotWorthLiving]

I was called delusional by a social worker for thinking I'm worthless. They then went on to say it was an affect of my depression. I was just like, dude, I am NOT delusional. I have no idea of the psychotic features of depression though.

 

[Politecat]

What are the signs and symptoms of a depression with psychotic features? Does one have to actually hallucinate or experience delusions to be considered "psychotic"?

I haven't had any visual hallucinations yet, and I hope not, cause that would freak me, but I have a lot of audio hallucinations. It's not the, someone calling your name to find no one is there, because that's perfectly normal from what I see, but it's more of someone actually talking to me when someone isn't there, and I can recognize the voice as if I know the person, but I can't put a face to it. It's multiple voices too, not just one, and they've made me very paranoid during work, I've also had delusions, that I don't snap out of for days. I was considering bringing it up to my psychiatrist on my last check up but I never did, but the delusions themselves have gotten me to go off of meds.

 

[Logic]

What are the signs and symptoms of a depression with psychotic features? Does one have to actually hallucinate or experience delusions to be considered "psychotic"?

What features do you have that you think are delusional? Delusional In psychiatry refers to brain problem. If you have a Delusion(feeling that something is real despite being clearly false) it's also need to reach other conditions like going against your prior believe system etc which is why aliens or religious beliefs no matter how delusional are not considered a delusion assuming you had a prior believe in aliens etc

 

[Kyrok]

I believe that my brain is being used by extra dimensional beings to communicate with one another.

One being sends his thought into this reality by activating various neurons in my brain. The other being generates my consciousness in order to be receptive to the first being's thought, then they switch around, like how individual speakers using walkie talkies take turns.

 

[wxtyubidi7y]

I believe that my brain is being used by extra dimensional beings to communicate with one another.

One being sends his thought into this reality by activating various neurons in my brain. The other being generates my consciousness in order to be receptive to the first being's thought, then they switch around, like how individual speakers using walkie talkies take turns.

Interesting. During one psychotic episode I was convinced I had a counterpart somewhere on the opposite side of the world and our thoughts and actions were perfectly synchronised (maybe whenever I thought or did something they thought or did the opposite). I was unable to work out the identity of this person.

 

[wxtyubidi7y]

I've also had delusions, that I don't snap out of for days. I was considering bringing it up to my psychiatrist on my last check up but I never did, but the delusions themselves have gotten me to go off of meds.

It's good that you can recognise that. One time despite hallucinating for about two weeks I believed all my health conditions were spontaneously healing including mental health and I gathered my meds and took them outside to the bin to throw them away. Fortunately at the last minute I thought better of it and kept taking them.