Psychosis

I have struggled with psychosis in the past as part of my bipolar diagnosis. I am deeply afraid of psychosis. How do you cope? How do you prevent? How do you get over the trauma of having been through psychosis?

Widgets from your phone calendar app can help alot. If not, download one that does. (I like "Good Calendar" app) & I also like to have a "physical" planner (which are on sale this time of year) I easily get feeling #overwhelmed into a state of stagnation & procrastination. Then things don't get done & just keep building up. Increasing the anxiety & stress, turning "overwhelmed" into #confused & #disoriented . which can spin,spiral, & snowball out of control. Which left unmanaged, can lead to #Psychosis &/or take my #SuicidalIdeation to a dangerous point . #SuicidePrevention #Suicide #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Schizophrenia #Depression #SchizoaffectiveDisorder

Hello my name is Nitya Saint I've struggled with a various of many diagnosis, for many years they diagnosed me as scitzoaffective, but come to find out I have severe PTSD, BPD, and incurable bi polar depression, which would give me psychotic episodes, and severe anxiety

But recently well three years ago I began to do Japa Meditation, Bhakti yoga, and meditation, I picked up the pen and put down the sword, instead of wanting to fight everyone because I realized I wasn't angry, I was living in my mind as that abused little kid, I was angry or numb but after years of studying Bhakti yoga, yoga, and writing my emotions out and learning to truly forgive all those who hurt me I began to heal,

see I was drinking poison, and expecting the other person to get sick and die, which would make sense, right? Well that is what I was doing everyday I woke up beating myself up and hiding behind drugs, alcohol and meaningless sex, in the shadows of yesterday I was never getting the sun, but through recovery and meditation I began to be able to control my negative thoughts,

My obsessions began to leave me, and I basically lived in psychosis, but once I got rid of the drugs, alcohol, and toxic people in my life, and I moved to live at a Hindu Ashram to study yoga, and I'm healing now, I no longer want to die, I was afraid to live was the issue but I think I'm gonna be alright #

No.2: ’Ah number six, delighted you could join me'

No.6: ’Do I have a choice?' 

Two: ’Of course, life is voluntary -' 

Six: ’- and death obligatory.' 

Two: ’For us all unfortunately.'

Six: ’What' delights' do you have for me, this morning?' 

Two: ‘Oh just a general chat, to let you know where you stand.'

Six: ’In the dock?' 

Two: ’You're not on trail, this time.'

Six: ’Unmutual?'

Two: You always have been and always will be. No, it's back to that old chestnut, why did you resign - no, don't jump to conclusions or try to defend yourself. This is about putting you in the picture. You probably think we need to know your secrets, so that we can blackmail you into silence through guilt.'

Six: ’I don't believe in society. I'm an individual, a loner. I don't care what other people believe' 

Two: ’A little bit of fear keeps people in line, don't you think? Your openness means we have nothing to fear from you; no plots, no rebellion, noon escape plans and nothing original to threaten the conformity of the village.'

Six: ’So you want to be stuck in a time warp?' 

Two: ’Why not? What's so wrong with that? Fear of death is fear of escape from life - the body. The physical world is your comfy prison, your home from home, your heaven on Earth.' 

Six: ’Hell to the awake. A playground for the mindless. Idiots paradise.' 

Two: ’Precisely! Sheep to the slaughter if necessary.' 

Six: ’Simple Simon says and a simpler Simon does what he's told.' 

Two: ’Exactly. No reason to wonder why, just do or die’

Six: ’Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a noble thing to die for one’s country.’ 

Two: ’You know your Latin' 

Six: ’Yes, lying about reality even back then. Selling fantasy.' 

Two: ’Still the cocky individualist! We'll break you as we've broken all of them, through love and hate.' 

Six: ’Love and hate?' 

Two: ’Soften you with love, shock you out of it through hate.' 

Six: ’Good cop, bad cop?' 

Two: ’Yes but it is more than that isn't it? They think that if they get away from here, they'll find a different world out there. That carrot and stick allows them to think it's different but it isn't. It's a bigger prison out there but it still plays by our rules. Snakes and ladders to break you - up the corporate ladder through promotion, then down again through demotion and of course we lie about what we're doing or why, just to keep you on your toes or in reality to break your spirit.' 

Six: ’What if we don't want to play or cotton onto your little game? '

Two: ‘Well you can see that here. You're taken off the board and put in a little box, where you can't contaminate the other players, with your diseased mind. We can't have you on the loose, spoiling things can we, by pointing out what is really going on. If you are not deluded, we throw you down the rabbit hole and totally destabilise your mind. We could of course break your body but we won't, if we need to use you in some capacity.'

Six: ’Poor Roland.' 

Two: ’Indeed. How do you break a stick? You push it back and forth until it snaps. You see we've worked out how reality works and tweak it for our own purposes.' 

Six: ’And I intend breaking it for mine.' 

Two: ’Quite so. You are an amusing fellow... at times.

We want you to settle in, become a proper member of our community' 

Six: ’A leader of the bland?' 

Two: ’We want you to realise that the smooth running of the village is in all our interests.' 

Six: ’Polite society?' 

Two: ’Humour and goodwill is the very essence of a democratic society' 

Six: ’Sheep are easier to handle than wolves.' 

Two: ’Especially lone wolves. Psychosis is unwillingness to accept things as they are and move on. It is.resistance to the reality you find yourself in.' 

Six: ’Stone walls do not a prison make.' 

Two: ’Yet the more you struggle, the deeper you sink into the quicksand of the village. You can either slow down and settle, accepting your fate, discovering all there is to know about this place or rebel and try to rush off somewhere else, thinking that the grass is greener on the other side of the hill but it isn't. Oh my dear chap I have so much to teach you. You take things so seriously and defend your position because you simply don't understand it. If you could laugh this mystery off, you'd be so much freer. Life is a conjuring trick and the speed of the mind deceives the 'I.' You think rushing around will disclose the truth? No, staying still is the only thing that will.'

Six: ’Words, words, words...'

Two: ’Ah yes, talking of which I understand you're a writer, a poet? 

Conform, conform 

Do things my way. 

Conform, conform 

Do what I say. 

Hardly Shakespeare - not subtle or romantic.' 

Six: ’I have no love affair with this place.'

Two: ’Yet it is your home, sweet home.' 

Six: ’I will escape from here.'

Two: ’Where to? All roads lead to Rome. You'll end up back here because there is nowhere else for you to run.' 

Six: ’Oh I doubt it.' 

Two: ’That's the trouble you see. As I said the village is everywhere, even if you don't recognise it at first. Be seeing you and you'll be seeing me too, here there and everywhere because I am you and you are me and we are all together. We're two sides of the same coin. I am just a reflection of that part of you, you refuse to acknowledge. Meeting number one will be a real damascene moment for you, I can tell you. On the road to calvary you will suffer no more illusions…

Day 30: Write a list of 25 reasons you’ll be ok.

My list of 25 reasons I’ll be ok.

1. I am strong.
2. I’ve got through worse before.
3. I am accepting help.
4. My psychosis is under control now.
5. I am starting to make good friends.
6. I will try harder this time.
7. It’s on my terms this time.
8. I am motivated to get better now.
9. I’m sick of missing out.
10. I’m a better person now.
11. I know I can do it.
12. I have a lot of support now.
13. I have a better psychiatrist now.
14. I’m not afraid anymore.
15. I want to achieve some of my dreams.
16. This too shall pass.
17. I know what’s not real now.
18. I don’t want to stay in the dark.
19. I want more security.
20. I know I need help now.
21. I have my pets now.
22. I’m braver now.
23. I’ve got more confidence now.
24. The meds make the voices go away, so they can’t hurt me anymore.
25. I’m 34 now, and it’s time to get my **** together. #Selfcare #52SmallThings

Communicating gives me psychosis

I definitely need to work on how often I vent frustration with the body I have been given. Every so often I have to stop and readjust my thoughts for the better, thanking my body for all it does to try to do what I want.
It does the best it can and I need to appreciate what it can offer.

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