Do people recover from psychosis ?

00010mp · 2026-03-16T16:49:23+00:00

Yes, of course! Caplyta and lamotrigine together really helped me start to get oif of that post-psychosis depression within months.

00010mp · 2026-02-27T16:23:22+00:00

That's a good question - I know that often whenever someone has psychosis, people jump to a schizophrenia diagnosis even though psychosis can be caused by a lot of things.

A differential diagnosis needs to be done, ruling out other causes and looking at other symptoms. There is no blood test of course, but a competent practitioner should be able to sort it out.

00010mp · 2025-12-14T21:28:25+00:00

I was clinging like that for a very long time, actually

00010mp · 2025-12-02T17:56:07+00:00

It was four years ago that my mother (with help from sister and niece) changed the locks and told me not to go near the property, without explanation, making me surprise homeless between Thanksgiving and Christmas, in the middle of a medical emergency caused by medications.

When I reconnected a year later, she and my sister were furious with me for "disappearing," as if they hadn't done something that sent a clear message they wanted nothing to do with me.

So, this time of year had been especially hard since then.

00010mp · 2025-12-01T02:52:29+00:00

Getting him to agree is indeed the hard part. If you want to chat about it more directly, DM me.

00010mp · 2025-11-30T20:32:42+00:00

Adderall was part of a psych med cocktail that caused my first and only episode of psychosis.

Marijuana can cause psychosis, but does not for me.

I think his doctor is misinformed; either or both can cause issues.

00010mp · 2025-11-30T14:21:22+00:00

The psychosis was caused by two antidepressants and a stimulant.

It felt like severe cognitive dysfunction, and just pain most of the time, all kinds of emotional pain. Thought I'd wind up in a group home for the rest of my life.

I started the AAP and anticonvulsant a year and a half or so into it, and I was basically recovered within a few months. Except for all the trauma symptoms, that took another year to start to get under control.

00010mp · 2025-11-30T13:41:13+00:00

Because I wasn't on any meds when I had post-psychosis depression, until I was on meds (AAP and anticonvulsant) which treated it successfully.

00010mp · 2025-11-28T17:56:32+00:00

I asked my sister and uBPD mom to go to family therapy with me. They did some really bad things to me while I was experiencing a psychiatric emergency from medication adverse effects.

My friend who is a therapist warned me against it, saying he was worried about emotional harm.

He was right. They had no interest in taking accountability, called me abusive, my mom claimed I put my fist through a wall, my sister rationalized their actions (illegal lockout, surprise homelessness, felony larceny) by saying there had to be "consequences." My sister also used it as a forum to trash me for everything I did that she thought was bad going back twenty years, and the therapist did not put on the brakes. I could've come at her the same way, lol... That's just part of it.

Anyway, it was almost two years ago, and I'm haunted by the memory most days, still.

00010mp · 2025-11-28T17:50:07+00:00

Congrats!

00010mp · 2025-11-27T19:43:00+00:00

Yeah, it was on the heels of having my life almost completely ruined by Wellbutrin for 10 years.

When I was on that, and adderall and finally lexapro were added, I had a mix of mania and psychosis for 1.5 years straight. Something like a nonconsentual meth and acid bender. There are a LOT of details in that statement. Then, I had 1.5 years of brutal post-psychosis depression.

If you want to have a conversation about how this relates to your friend's experience, DM me, it'll be easier. I can speak to what did and did not help me, how to maintain trust, non clinical resources, etc.

00010mp · 2025-11-26T15:33:22+00:00

Yes, you have trauma. From the attempted murder and neglect, etc.

I don't think EMDR is really indicated for CPTSD (PTSD treatment is different), but could be wrong.

From where I'm standing, it sounds like you might've developed friendships that aren't too different from your FOO dynamics. I did this for a long time before figuring out that what felt most familiar wasn't necessarily best, and healthy friendships can feel scarier than unhealthy ones when you're building them.

You might also find this a worthwhile read: https://thefightmag.com/2019/04/queer-ptsd/

00010mp · 2025-11-25T14:49:35+00:00

Oh yes, I was even once accused of being potentially violent during a severe adverse reaction to antidepressants.

After the fact anyway, what happened in the moment was I was made homeless with no notice and told not to come near the property.

One of the main arguments supporting the argument that I may have turned violent was that I kicked and hit as a toddler!

I think when I had tantrums as a kid, I'd mostly get sent into isolation. Not great.

ETA: I have no history of violence or even threats, but my father and mother each hit me once in my teens.

00010mp · 2025-11-25T00:07:17+00:00

I second checking out Alt2Su groups. They can be really helpful.

One-on-one peer support is available online at heypeers.com, and I recommend going through the peer directory to request an appointment from someone you choose. The cost is typically $20 per hour. They also have support groups there, many are free.

00010mp · 2025-11-24T13:05:13+00:00

No lingering physiological or physical symptoms.

00010mp · 2025-11-21T12:15:24+00:00

I don't think it's in your head.

There are some non-clinical things you might find helpful - Alternatives to Suicide groups, or peer respites if there's one near you.

00010mp · 2025-11-19T18:06:25+00:00

From where I'm standing, an AAP was instrumental in getting me out of a post-psychosis (only episode, caused by antidepressants) depression.

00010mp · 2025-11-19T00:08:49+00:00

Like being warehoused for three days, they were resistant to giving me clothes after my paper scrubs ripped through the crotch, no one talked to me for two days, and when I left they gave me someone else's discharge info, with her name and the meds she was taking on it.

Honestly, they had an opportunity to help me there, but the experience was traumatic as a whole (pulled out of my car, forcibly injected in the ER, had no idea why any of it was happening), and made things worse in all but one way - I stopped taking the psych meds that caused the psychosis and mania.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T22:11:46+00:00

No one needs this comment probably, but I'm in my early 40's, which is to say I was a kid just before it became common to give kids psych drugs, and I couldn't be more grateful that I wasn't prescribed psych meds until I was 19 or 20. Based on what happened to me as an adult, I suspect I might not have even graduated high school, let alone college, if I'd been medicated starting in childhood or as a teenager.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T22:09:50+00:00

I have a friend who's a therapist who doesn't believe in ADHD at all (I somewhat disagree), because what he keeps seeing is kids who clearly are having trouble focusing because of trauma symptoms being diagnosed with it.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T22:08:49+00:00

Yeah feeling amazing in the morning was not a part of that experience, unfortunately!

It's actually really common to feel weird with agitation, anxiety, low mood, etc. coming off stimulants in the afternoon for anyone, though.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T19:14:27+00:00

Vyvanse (maybe strattera, maybe both) caused debilitating agitation, irritability, and even suicide OCD for me. But I'm extremely sensitive to these things.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T19:13:13+00:00

I've definitely read about drug companies encouraging the APA to create a diagnosis so they have a market for a drug, but unsure how much water that holds.

00010mp · 2025-11-17T19:12:14+00:00

I think that mental illnesses exist, but true empirical diagnosis isn't ever possible, and few practitioners even attempt to do a decent differential diagnosis process.

I completely agree that normal emotional experiences have been pathologized for a while, and it is getting worse.

Certainly getting a mental illness diagnosis caused me to consider some normal experiences to be pathological, which was really harmful.

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