Did some experience psychotic symptoms or paranoia?

[Guest]

Hi everyone, 

 

Did someone during withdrawal experience psychosis, psychotic thoughts or paranoia? 
 

and how did you handle it? 

[Callieflower]

Hi. My withdrawal has included bouts of paranoia and mild psychosis (visual hallucinations and feeling out of touch with reality). I’ve been very honest about what I’m seeing and experiencing with 2 people very close to me. Opening up to them and receiving no judgment has been helpful and made these symptoms less scary for me. I’m also a big fan of the benefits of distraction. Putting on the tv with something familiar gives me a short break because I’m no longer focusing on my symptoms.

How has the last day been for you? Any improvement?

[rupa]

On 7/22/2022 at 2:07 AM, Quittingquentiapin said:

Hi everyone, 

 

Did someone during withdrawal experience psychosis, psychotic thoughts or paranoia? 
 

and how did you handle it? 

In this tech era,judging thoughts and labelling self with paranoia is not a good thing for self.

 

Take good care of yourself while taking one day at a time.

 

Eventually brain heals.

 

 

[Greatful]

Guest

How are you doing.  I had the worst paranoia winter/spring of 2021.  I was a mess from drug hopping, tapering Lamictal and CTing 6 weeks of Seroquel and starting Lexapro.

I thought the bird singing could turn into them talking to me, I thought the wind outside might turn into a man voice, I thought peoples eyes could be trying to tell me something.  I had unexplainable fear.  I kept wanting  look around myself  to see what I should be afraid of. I still feel a disconnect in my thinking.  Slowly my rational brain is returning.  I am trying to get off of my drugs.  I think they could still be part of the problem.  

What happened to you?

[Guest]

On 8/3/2022 at 12:27 PM, Greatful said:

Guest

How are you doing.  I had the worst paranoia winter/spring of 2021.  I was a mess from drug hopping, tapering Lamictal and CTing 6 weeks of Seroquel and starting Lexapro.

I thought the bird singing could turn into them talking to me, I thought the wind outside might turn into a man voice, I thought peoples eyes could be trying to tell me something.  I had unexplainable fear.  I kept wanting  look around myself  to see what I should be afraid of. I still feel a disconnect in my thinking.  Slowly my rational brain is returning.  I am trying to get off of my drugs.  I think they could still be part of the problem.  

What happened to you?

You can read my thread if you like. At the moment I can’t discribe what is happening with me. I struggle a lot. I think I am wa witch sometimes and that I can see through people and that I can change them, or that I belive in telepathy. That I can read peoples minds etc and is exhausting! I feel like a horrible person! All the time. My mind and my soul are gone. I think sometimes that other people had the power over my mind and what I think, and that I became this person. I m not connected with my self. I can’t discribe this better. I like i have no power over what is going on. All my intentions are bad I don’t know. I am not myself anymore. 
 

i know that what I am doing is wrong, but I do it anyway. My mind have 10 different stages and it changed in minutes. I do something, and course after that, my mind told me. You did it because of this and that blablabla is horrible this overme who never let me breath or be me 

[Greatful]

Guest 

I am so sorry that this is happening to you.  I am  plagued by crazy thought/fears  too.  It can get so scary and overwhelming.  I often tell my husband that I am going to go crazy.  These drugs are pretty scary.  Sometime it feels like I am super high in a zoned out way but still filled with fear and paranioa. It makes me wonder why people like to get high.    I try to control my brain and thoughts but it has a mind of it's own.  It believes what it believe and the more I try to out think it the more panicked I get.  My husband reassures me that it will get better.   It's only been a few month that you ctd the Quetiapine, please find a way to chant to yourself that this is not me and it's the drugs have messed with my brain.  I know I know that easier said than done.  Sometimes I just break down and sob over the terror of it.

 

Have you ever read the story "What's Happening to Your Brain".  Please read it if you haven't.  I took some of the panic out of what was happening to me.  I was not crazy it was my brain not working right because of what the drugs did to it and now it's trying to find itself.  I will hop over to your thread🌞

 

[Guest]

On 8/3/2022 at 1:48 PM, Greatful said:

Guest 

I am so sorry that this is happening to you.  I am  plagued by crazy thought/fears  too.  It can get so scary and overwhelming.  I often tell my husband that I am going to go crazy.  These drugs are pretty scary.  Sometime it feels like I am super high in a zoned out way but still filled with fear and paranioa. It makes me wonder why people like to get high.    I try to control my brain and thoughts but it has a mind of it's own.  It believes what it believe and the more I try to out think it the more panicked I get.  My husband reassures me that it will get better.   It's only been a few month that you ctd the Quetiapine, please find a way to chant to yourself that this is not me and it's the drugs have messed with my brain.  I know I know that easier said than done.  Sometimes I just break down and sob over the terror of it.

 

Have you ever read the story "What's Happening to Your Brain".  Please read it if you haven't.  I took some of the panic out of what was happening to me.  I was not crazy it was my brain not working right because of what the drugs did to it and now it's trying to find itself.  I will hop over to your thread🌞

 

Yea I read it. But somehow this doesn’t make it less painful ! I don’t know what to belive anymore. My live is just a mess 

[Greatful]

Guest  I know that it doesn't take away the pain and misery, for me it took some of the sting away.

Have you seen Baylissa Frederick's website.  You might find some encouragement.  https://mccare.org/user-guide/

You know who you are,,,If you can stop and look deep inside you will see you, the core you. Your brain is offline right now.  

Somehow we need to let things be just the way they are, go with the flow. Find a daily mantra that will help you remember that you are okay and that one day you will be you again.   Have a few different ones...I am okay.  I am safe, My brain is healing,

I think baylissa has a list of affirmations http://mccare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/10-Day-Affirmations-Challenge-REV.pdf

 

Your brain is healing every minute of everyday🤗

[Guest]

On 8/4/2022 at 11:18 AM, Greatful said:

Guest  I know that it doesn't take away the pain and misery, for me it took some of the sting away.

Have you seen Baylissa Frederick's website.  You might find some encouragement.  https://mccare.org/user-guide/

You know who you are,,,If you can stop and look deep inside you will see you, the core you. Your brain is offline right now.  

Somehow we need to let things be just the way they are, go with the flow. Find a daily mantra that will help you remember that you are okay and that one day you will be you again.   Have a few different ones...I am okay.  I am safe, My brain is healing,

I think baylissa has a list of affirmations http://mccare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/10-Day-Affirmations-Challenge-REV.pdf

 

Your brain is healing every minute of everyday🤗

I am not myself this is my trauma self. Try to work fight or flight I think. Everything I thought in the past doesn’t make sense anymore 

 

my mind will overthink all the time