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Another Rosie pic for your Monday! Because everyone deserves a Rosie pic to start their day 😉 See how she sticks her whole nose in the rose? Lol

I would feel the same way....except on the days when she wakes me up with her grumbles about my sleeping late 😂 and yes they literally sound like a tiny frustrated person is trying to politely grumble someone awake 🤣

She is a Very talkative pup! Her sassy grunts of unhappiness if we don't pay her as much attention as she wants are the funniest things!

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Slipping in and out of psychosis

I don’t know if anyone seen my bio (I guess that’s what it is)? I am very new here and a little confused about it. My thoughts don’t always line up. However I have a question about slipping in and out of psychosis. And it’s that it seems like I slip in and out of psychosis for a few days and then come out of it. And I don’t know if this is normal for some people? I’ve had longer episodes but it seems like the best control I have is slipping in and out. And it’s not sudden, just can’t notice the slip. Anyway do people here slip in and out of it for any given day(s) like myself? Because it happens a lot for me. Or have I just lost it completely?

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Deep breaths 💖

Take a moment and think of how you would treat your best friend on their worst day.

Now treat yourself like that 💕💕💕

You Are Worth Time and Care! You Are Worthy of help! You deserve contentment and joy! Happiness is for you!!

Please take care of yourself ❤️
You know your struggles and troubles best- you also know your favorite things in life 😉
Plan some good things you can look forward to each day, each week, and each month.

Looking forward to life and living is easier when you are excited for something good you know is in the future.

Gentle hugs ✨️ You are Mightier than you realize!

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I don't know what to trust ...#Psychosis #Bipolar1 #Anxiety #Depression #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder

It's a devastating and terrifying place to be in where reality becomes so distorted that you aren't sure if you can even trust your own feelings and thoughts. I don't have anyone to talk to, I feel embarrassed or ashamed of my disorders that when I hear my voice saying the words out loud it's as if I'm confirming that I'm crazy.

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When it seems like the world is against you... because of a bipolar psychosis episode.

Well it's been quite a journey on my path to getting help with the crazy stew (my brain). Seems like where ever I seek it it ends up taking much longer than I expected. (Months long wait to even get an appointment) Which is discouraging and I feel like the crazy stew is about to boil over... My husband and I were evicted during the holidays and we've been staying in a shelter for about 4 months now. There's almost 200+ other people here as well so, social anxiety be damned.... Really my anxiety (along with my bipolar disorder) ultimately just damned me instead... Most of them are nice, friendly folks but I just prefer to keep to myself (my husband is the social one). I've always been quiet, reserved, shy. Lately I've been wondering if that is why I'm battling the belief that everyone is against me.... I'm a little all over the place here, but since I'm still trying to get a doctor/therapist, (shaman even, or voodoo master will do at this point) but there isn't 1 in sight just yet, I came here. Thank you for taking the time and being here to listen to (read) about a few of my woes. I greatly appreciate you.#L

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This is a VERY important one!

Having such bad health and always having had bad health, I occasionally wonder who would want someone who can't do anything and costs a LOT for Dr appointments and medicine.
But then I think back to when I was in a wheelchair and new people still wanted to hang out with me.

It was who I am not how poorly my body can be and is.

Family get mad that we don't spend enough time together. A gift though not being able to control my health makes it still something to fight for.

People are drawn to personalities and temperaments. Before I was a leader of the many groups in school, in 3rd grade I made it up as I went. Reaching out to anyone and everyone who seemed lost or alone. It was and is who I am. Often who we appear to be, we are at heart. Like personalities and relatability call yo one another.

Soon my group was humongous and filled five or six long tables! Everyone would have a friend. I wouldn't allow otherwise. Thankfully it caught on.

My family still see me as the popular kid but I still think and know that I am just someone who never wants another person to feel left out, forgotten, or ignored.

Each of us deserves happiness and friendship.
And here we all are on The Mighty! Whoop whoop! Such a blessing always and forever!

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Why Did I Go Mad? BBC documentary

Professor Swaran Singh of Warwick University in the UK, said on BBC’s Horizon documentary ‘Why Did I Go Mad?’ that psychosis is about being a Stranger In A Stranger Land, to quote Robert Heinlein. The suburbs are a battleground (Terra incognita), where discrimination and bullying reign because of isolation (the new attacked by the old). It is no different from the body and its reaction to external invaders. It is also seen in domestic abuse, where children are not wanted and abused. Integration of society or the individual is the only cure.

Like him I believe it has nothing to do with race, culture, sex or sexual persuasion. The bullying is about trying to find a weakness in someone's character (what you fear being disclosed about yourself, which you are ashamed of in your personal history). It is trying to dislodge an opponent from their physical or mental stance (belief about themselves or the world they come from / belonged to) as in wrestling or debating. Whether you are in a new country, new neighbourhood or world – it is about trying to move you out again (‘Go back where you come from / belong’). It is about obeying the rules or taking your own limitations back to where they come from (if you want to stay, you must dump your beliefs about how the world works or should work and accept our way, our version of it).

Problems with personal sanity or society’s way of life? This is it in a nutshell. This is the paradigm wars you face every day and the conversion or rejection that goes on, the universe over (‘Are you one of us or one of them?’ ‘Are you with us or against us?’ ‘Do we love (want you) or hate you (not want you here)?’).

See also Marius Romme and The Maastricht Approach (Hearing Voices Network) for healing rifts in the psyche

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Little late introduction

I am a person in their seventies who believes that they are on the autistic spectrum but has never had an official diagnosis and can't afford to pay for a private assessment (atrocious work record - thank God for the national pension).

I am a highly sensitive person as Eileen Aaron describes it. I occasionally feel wax falling in my ear canal, like it's a cave in and notice fleas crawling in my hair, if the dogs pick them up. I suffered more than twenty years of migraines, have digestive problems and hay fever but seem to be still alive.

You could describe me as suffering from the little professor syndrome as I have dissected English and turned it into an eight book series, plus have a blog where I analyse human behaviour (https://anemptyhead.quora.com).

I also write short stories, flash fiction and the occasional poem. I also create collage artwork and am into photography as well as recently creating dioramas in display cases (https://www.deviantart.com/paigetheoracle /).

I had four special relationships that included two women diagnosed with schizophrenia, although one insisted she was just depressed. Another girl may have had a schizoid personality and a fourth post partum psychosis, abandoning her new born baby and the rest of her family, travelling halfway round the world to the UK (now in a stable relationship that has lasted thirty years).

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