My first time being psychotic, took the longest time for my brain to recover being psychotic, I think being wrongly diagnosed and clinically depressed for three years, made the recovery from that time so much longer. The other four times I was psychotic, a pattern was developing. It seemed to take three months for the psychotic symptoms to go away, and another nine months for my brain to recover to a point where I could cope with life, as it was. Ive never had a carer, Ive had great support from my sister, friends and then the man who loves me. Im very grateful, for all the support Ive had. So every time I became psychotic I was losing at least a year of my life. I was starting to get pi%#€d off about that! and decided I needed to become more responsible for myself and my mental health. I gave myself a new motto, REALITY AT ALL COSTS, that meant I would do anything I could to not become psychotic(psychotic means:out of touch with reality). Id already gone eight years through the grief process (after the person I was, before I became unwell, was forever gone) and the denial was gone, I believed I had bipolar, I still had some anger and guilt, I was in the reconciliation phase of grief and after another four years I had accepted my diagnosis. Now the important part of this post is this: until people get passed denial, they wont see a need to take medication, I myself had gone on and off medication in that eight years.Who would take medication if they didnt believe they had an illness. Thats half the battle, not everybody will go through a grief process, I think it depends on the diagnosis, how unwell you get the first time, and how much you lose as a result of getting sick. I wanted to talk about all this before talking about early warning signs for psychosis, as people have to be ready (not in denial), to take advise and want to learn about their illness, before you can help them. So if you know somebody who is still in denial about their mental health diagnosis, support them as much as you can, by listening, spending time with them, valuing them, appreciating them, and give them the time and love they need. Thats all for now. Have a good day, stay well.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 02:57:23 +0000
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