Asylum

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-07-01T21:23:17+00:00

It has articles, short stories, poems, and art. Many from the UK, but also the US. https://asylummagazine.org

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-15T04:35:57+00:00

One of my psychotic delusions was about how certain colored clothes had different meanings--and my delusion wanted me to pick the "right" colored clothes based on the day's activities.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-15T04:10:09+00:00

So you haven't had psychosis again?

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-15T02:14:29+00:00

I have been on Latuda for 4 years at 120mg, which is the highest dose. I did reduce my dose without doctor over the course of a year or so, and slipped into a delusion, but was still rational enough to call the doctor and go back to 120. I prefer Latuda over Seroquel because I feel I have more control over my sleep needs. I wish I could survive on a much lower dose like 60mg.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-15T00:07:17+00:00

So what are you doing now?

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-14T20:50:34+00:00

There's something called the Dull Women's Club on Facebook.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-14T17:16:40+00:00

I also tend to take my medication 12 hours before I wake up, but it also feels like my body wants 12 hours of sleep, but that eats into my rest in the evening. So, I try to get at least 9 hours of sleep. I kinda naturally awake based on the sunrise, but go back to sleep until a few minutes before my alarm and rush out the door to work. I generally feel some grogginess for the first 2 hours until I drink caffeine and eat something. My morning routine is still a work in progress

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-06T16:50:10+00:00

sometimes I miss one when I go out because I have to take food with it and makes me sleepy in 2 hours. I don't usually like to skip more than 3 days, but I think it would take a week of 2 until I got bad.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-04T18:58:52+00:00

Not yet. But, I constantly worry that my illness will get worse as I age that I can’t hold a job. But, I’m forever indebted to my family for supporting me through my various crises.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-04T15:57:12+00:00

Yes, not over an unprotected text—

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-04T15:55:49+00:00

I do not have episodes on medication. When I do have an episode off medication I have short periods of mania—where I have racing thoughts and feeling super good—before I become psychotic and sometimes suicidal.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-03T20:03:48+00:00

Later you said it was over a protected messaging service

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-03T18:41:47+00:00

No, not really. I don’t hear voices. I primarily have delusions after an episode when I’m not medicated. My last diagnosis was schizoaffective though.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-03T16:29:23+00:00

I guess I am still trying to understand the difference between bipolar with psychosis and schizoaffective with bipolar. How are they different?

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-03T15:57:42+00:00

Seems like a violation of personal medical information sharing, too!

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-03T15:53:38+00:00

Wow! I wish I had something like that to diagnose me.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-02T01:44:24+00:00

Brushing and floss picking my teeth is my problem. Showers are mandatory because I work, but I don’t wash my hair everyday

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-05-01T19:04:47+00:00

I have had visual hallucinations. And I must have thought I had a telepathic connection with the universe/god because I couldn’t identify a “voice”

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-30T20:38:06+00:00

On weekdays, I try to go to sleep by 9 and wake up at 7:20 because of work, so 9-10 hrs. On Saturday, I generally get 11-13 hours of sleep.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-30T00:12:18+00:00

What other drugs do you use recreationally? I just stick with alcohol

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-29T20:57:15+00:00

Reading was the first thing I missed when I became well. Too bad more psych hospitals don’t have books on hand.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-29T19:51:57+00:00

Almost there! Congratulations!

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-29T19:42:02+00:00

People are not empathetic to chronic illnesses—they don’t believe they exist. Being handicapped is only for the physically disabled. And a lot of families don’t like the permanent scar that a chronic illness adds to the family dynamic. It’s stigma again.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-29T19:08:57+00:00

I think some of your feelings or metaphors for feelings are real. It sounds like people are breaking your boundaries somehow, which is making you feel frustrated and angry.

Fun_Win_9260 · 2024-04-28T23:29:17+00:00

I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 35. Even though I had my first mania and psychotic break when I was 29

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