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Just with the other topic here.

Does anyone think I'm psychotic or are you more open minded like myself.
I'm sick of that label - especially since it's wrong.

Tue Mar 2 2010 19:29:48 #
Cuthbert ffoliott
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I don't know you in person, Nicola. So it's a tough one. I'm not fond of the label 'psychotic'. It's been so misused and battered by all kinds of sensationalists in media and films that the general public holds it to be something entirely different from what good doctors see it as.

I know someone, a very lovable person, who gets all too vivid fantasies when she's under stress. These fearful fantasies take on the form of realistic pictures and sounds, but at the same time she knows that they're not real. She does not harm anyone, herself included. I think for her it is some kind of defense mechanism. Unbearable fear is made bearable by transforming it into something 'understandable' (i.e. the pictures and sounds). The brain has decided in some way that everything's better than that unnamed en unknown general fear. Her anxiety is specified, as it were. That keeps her own personality as a whole, she does not 'fall apart', because of that defense mechanism.

I hope I could explain a bit here. Perhaps this doesn't apply to you at all, if so: I am sorry. But to conclude: I like such a brief explanation, understandable for everyone caring to read it, much better than terms like 'psychotic' and so on.

Stay cool, hang on in there, ciao,

Cuthbert.

Tue Mar 2 2010 19:46:35 #
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Thanks.

All my stuff is real - I have proof - I even have pictures.
If it wasn't I'd accept it because I know it's not like the media make it sound, I have friends that are.

Or maybe I just lack insight like they all think, but I just want off my meds

Tue Mar 2 2010 21:02:55 #
mama
Member

Nicola,
dont listen to labels...I couldnt admit I had OCD for about 2 years...its so hard to accept that we might need help with something...we humans like to appear in control and strong. The real truth is, that psychotic, or mental, or emotional disorders, or whatever else you HAVE does NOT make YOU psychotic or mental or whatever. It means you deal with the condition. You are not the illness that you battle any more than a cancer patient IS the cancer they battle. You are a beautiful girl with a difficult condition...it does not mean you ARE the psychosis...it means you battle it. Its okay to have struggles...and its okay to take meds to help with the illness. I have finally come to understand that my meds dont make me weak...they dont change who I am...they help me be me more. Give it time...and to answer the question...no...you are not psychotic...but you might actually deal with psychosis of some kind. You wouldnt be the first person in the world, and certainly wont be the last, but if it is true, it certainly makes you no less important in the world. You are sweet and kind, and you dont need to listen to labels that make you feel less than. You are not the psychosis...You, Nicola, are the warrior that battles it.
Love,
Andrea

Wed Mar 3 2010 6:33:26 #
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Thanks

I could accept it, if I knew everything I know wasn't true, but I know it is - with all the proof I have.

I just keep hearing that word and the social worker told me I was clearly psychotic lol - told her I wasn't.

I just want off my meds, because I know what they want to do, but I can't or I'll get sectioned again, which sucks.

Wed Mar 3 2010 9:05:05 #
Wombat140
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Manners are not a necessary qualification for a social worker. Some have them, some haven't. Anyway, "psychotic" is one of those hardy old psychological terms that can mean a whole lot of things. Don't let it get to you.
What've you got pictures of?

Sat Mar 6 2010 22:02:37 #
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I don't - I know it isn't psychosis, if it was I'd have no problems with taking my meds.

I have pictures of the cameras.

Sun Mar 7 2010 11:38:57 #