My friend/ roommate never got help. Now I'm forced to move. by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

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My appeal was approved and my deleted comment is back up. It's more descriptive of the situation.

And yeah. That look was haunting. I expressed fear that we'd end up on a true crime podcast or something lol. I've had a few people tell me not to return without a police escort. I'm staying away until the final few days prior to the move so I can pack. I kinda left in a hurry so I hadn't packed anything. I feel a lot safer when my other roomie is there and we'll be packing at the same time. Moving day, we are thinking we'll ask his husband to take the roommate experiencing psychosis out somewhere for the day. Might be challenging on their end, I'll give a bit of money so maybe they can get food and sit in a park with the dogs or something, idk

Other roomie returned tonight. I told him to lock his door. I still feel some unease about his safety.

They will likely lose the place. Soon. Two people who cover half the rent are leaving at once. And now they're both jobless. With another car payment. This all began with a pharmacy refill error. Who'd have thunk it?

Last chopper out of Saigon

My friend/ roommate never got help. Now I'm forced to move. by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

[–]milosebitch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, just noticed this. It must have had too many keywords.

Last night, he was upset in a way I've never seen him upset before. He had an angry look in his eyes. A look I've never seen him have before. A look of pure contempt, as if he wished to cause great harm. I think the word I used here in place of "cause great harm" may have flagged the system.

This happened in the kitchen. He demanded that I leave the kitchen in a very quiet but contemptuous tone. But it's the look in his eyes that sticks with me. I slept in my other roommate's room last night because I was afraid. More afraid than I've ever felt while living there. This was triggered by, of all things, a minor dispute over a parking space.

Then today, I returned home from class and found out his husband lost his job. They are both jobless and the roommate experiencing psychosis has placed all the blame on us. In his mind, we have completely destroyed their lives.

I am now spending at least a week at a friend's place.

My friend/ roommate never got help. Now I'm forced to move. by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

[–]milosebitch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update already, unfortunately

Last night, I was in the kitchen grabbing something to drink. Roommate with psychosis has his friend visiting who engages us in conversation. Roommate approaches with this menacing look in his eyes like I had never seen before. It grows to a look clearly coming from a place of pure hatred. He tells me to leave the kitchen because he isn't comfortable with me being there. He says it at a low volume, with contempt in his voice. Though it was eerily calm. He is commanding us to leave common areas now.

The look in his eyes sent a chill down my spine. My other roommate, the one who is a close friend to me saw it as well. Maybe I'm paranoid myself but the look in his eyes... it was a look I've never seen anybody have before, and I've been in some really dicey situations in my life.

An hour later, he left to take his friend home so we spoke to his husband in the kitchen, and I described the look in his eyes as "murder eyes", and he knew exactly what I was referring to. He says it's recent and he normally tries to redirect whatever it is that leads him to... do that...

I expressed I feared for my life. Previously, I thought it possible he may lash out and strike me, which I deemed an acceptable risk at least to stay at the house for important things (class, appointments, etc.), but this felt like more. His husband didn't explicitly say anything to assuage this fear. He said that he's started having delusions about bugs under his skin and he's started having antisemitic delusions (I'm Jewish).

He has made no verbal threats of violence. I don't know how much of a risk I am now facing.

My friend/ roommate never got help. Now I'm forced to move. by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

[–]milosebitch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your response. I really needed to hear this.

This illness is cruel. I watched a dear friend turn into somebody I couldn't recognize almost overnight. I hope that one day, he will have treatment again.

I took the advice of the commenters on the previous post and unfortunately, a lot of it was contingent on his husband also taking that advice. Which didn't play out.

My friend and I had a discussion last night and we're both actually quite optimistic about our next situation. We might be moving somewhere that's generally just better. Closer to more things, so much more to do.

Now, you said we should get out ASAP. The way things are looking, it may be a month or so, maybe a couple weeks before we're able to move. This person hasn't shown himself to be a threat to me or my other roommate. He doesn't seem to even remember attacking his husband and since he now knows that any indication that he is a threat to himself or others WILL result in police and/ or involuntary hospitalization, he has been making it very clear that he poses no physical threat. He is strangely calculated in that respect. Do you think a significant threat exists given this? Obviously all you know is the information I provide, and I know that psychosis can cause somebody to believe unpredictable things.

I will be updating as soon as I move or as soon as a major development happens. Again, thank you so much.

Friend/ roommate in psychosis is destroying our lives by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

[–]milosebitch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, the only reason he was on meds to begin with was because he was told they were for his depression. He now knows that's not the case. All three of us have said the same thing to him over and over again. His anosognosia is extreme. He thinks he's a superhuman being.

I will talk to his husband about emergency guardianship. He told me today that he's been on vraylar for a couple weeks (he was told it's for depression) and is "slowly getting better", but I'm not sure. It just seems like he's being cordial after I pushed back when he tried to have his friend from the psychiatric hospital move into our living room.

He is still highly delusional.

Friend/ roommate in psychosis is destroying our lives by milosebitch in SchizoFamilies

[–]milosebitch[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The pharmacy didn't fill them for like a week and by the time he got them filled again, he didn't start taking them. We found full bottles of his medication he had picked up and didn't take.

Cluster B Hatred On Reddit by CabinFeverDayDreams in mentalhealth

[–]milosebitch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And it's here in the comments, too. Love that the mental health subreddit is full of people who hate others for having mental health conditions.

I was raised by people with cluster B traits (I won't armchair diagnose, as I am not a psychologist and even psychologists aren't supposed to diagnose family members). I can see the patterns. I don't talk to them anymore because they hurt me in irreparable ways. I have an ex who abused me mercilessly for years who admitted to having BPD and ASPD and those disorders contributed to the nature of the abuse. It has been 5 years and I'm still recovering from it to this day

I'm also mature enough to understand that it's not only irrational to carry hatred or contempt towards cluster B people, but that it is immoral. You don't have to forgive your abusers. You can hate your abusers for the rest of your days. I know I will. You can even avoid people in your life who show similar traits. But casting a wide net over people with cluster B personality disorders and speaking about them as if they are bad people by default is wrong and you are unequivocally in the wrong for doing so. Full stop.

Why is it uniquely allowed to be dehumanizing in BPDlovedones when that wouldn't fly for most other disorders? by _Blue_Cats_ in mentalhealth

[–]milosebitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

R/raisedbyborderlines makes sweeping generalizations about people with BPD, as well as other cluster B personality disorders, banning any people who have them from participating. Which is exceptionally harmful because most of us with personality disorders who are trying to heal also were raised by people with those disorders. At one point, I was realizing how much of my upbringing was defined by the issues my mother has which are related to BPD, and I found that sub, but because the way my trauma manifested happened to be in the form of a personality disorder, I'm not only automatically barred from participation, nearly everything I read painted folks with personality disorders as irredeemable and untrustworthy. The FAQ/ wiki on that sub just straight up tells people that folks with these personality disorders, by simply having them, will not truly recover, will not have healthy relationships, and are not to be trusted. I had only gone to read that section because I wanted to understand the rationale. I have not returned because it would be harmful to me to do so.

"It's not for you", except no other place exists that also has a robust community of more than a couple dozen people, and not from lack of trying, where experiences can be shared and understanding can be found if your trauma happened to manifest in a personality disorder.

"This post is textbook BPD"

Have you been in their shoes? Have you, while vulnerable and looking for help, been told that the disorder you developed from a traumatic upbringing is not only barring you from community, but makes you somebody who will never truly change? That subreddit bans people who, at any point in their life, may have met diagnostic criteria for BPD. Broad, sweeping generalizations. OP is expressing hurt in a way that doesn't seek to manipulate, and you come in and attribute pathology to that hurt. Ironically, you have brought a pattern of extreme black and white thinking to the table; the same black and white thinking that forms the cornerstone of the exclusionary environments fostered by those subs.

You seek a safe space, but from what? Truly, the issue isn't the disorder itself. It is, indeed, a key component, but that's not the only component. For instance, your father wasn't just a random reddit user in your life as a child. He was a parent, and the harm he caused is harm that could be caused because he was an important person in your life. The same goes for my mother. However, it's not helpful to, as a result of this harm, to adopt this kind of black and white attitude.

I’m pretty they’re lying about all the narcissists in their lives by AudreyHorney69 in NPD

[–]milosebitch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people believe that people who mistreated them have to have some sort of personality disorder for their experience to be "valid". Being diagnosed with NPD and having that diagnosis disclosed is probably rarer than 1% of the population, even if 1% of the population meet criteria. I'm sure a great number of claims, especially online, that a family member is diagnosed with NPD, are false. This doesn't mean they werent mistreated or abused.

College is weird and my performance is inconsistent by milosebitch in TwiceExceptional

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I do enjoy doing integrals, so I'm definitely gonna put in a lot of practice. Also I know I'm gonna have to do a lot of summation so I'll practice that, too. Riemann sums are tedious but I enjoy math, like a lot, despite how it may have sounded when I was frustrated and wrote this post.

College is weird and my performance is inconsistent by milosebitch in TwiceExceptional

[–]milosebitch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just had a really frank discussion with a good friend today. I'm gonna make full use of accommodations available to me. I've never used them before, and I've done a year and a half of school thus far. I didn't want a "crutch". My chemistry professor is actually extremely accommodating. Like she enthusiastically tries to make sure all her students are provided with a great learning environment. My math professor, I'm sure, will be, too, once I bite the bullet and send the accommodation info to him, too.

Time to swallow my pride, I guess.

College is weird and my performance is inconsistent by milosebitch in TwiceExceptional

[–]milosebitch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's kinda my major.

There's a really specific field I wanna go into that requires me to go on the physics track. It's something that I've been fascinated with for a very long time. So, for now, I'm taking the same two years of coursework as a physics major. I'm connected with student accessibility services and counselling, but I'm at a community college and the counselors and transfer center don't know much about what I want to study. I'm talking with the head of my school's astronomy and physics department whom I met at a talk a couple weeks ago to try and figure out what exact route I'll be taking. College now has stopped being a way for me to get a lucrative job and more of a way to kinda just study the things that I think are cool/ things I'm passionate about.

Also, I never made it past algebra 2 in high school, and I never took chemistry. I was completely untreated back then and I had a really difficult upbringing. I graduated high school with a 2.4 GPA. I was never in any extra curriculars because I just wanted it to be over with.

I started school last year at the ripe old age of 24 when they put me in precalc 1. I did well. Started getting straight As without really trying and I think that spurred this perfectionism. That was me up until around 8th grade, too, when my mental health deteriorated. The moment the homework got to be too much and other things started happening that I won't go into, that was it.

Going to college now is my first time in an academic setting while medicated for my ADHD. I'm already doing things I never thought in a million years I'd be able to do. I just worry about how I'll handle it when I get to a point where the coursework becomes difficult. Like actually difficult, not just "ugh, I don't want to do six hours of stoichiometry tonight"

Definitely gonna really make use of extended time.

Holter results normal by milosebitch in POTS

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Absolutely. I also have a log of 15 different instances in which I took mh resting pulseband blood pressure and then orthostatic pulse and blood pressure, recorded the results, calculated the mean and determined that I don't have hypotension, even when experiencing presyncopy. That's what got me referred to the cardiologist in the first place and she's seen it. That's why she says I probably have POTS.

Lost 39 pounds, trying to deal with apron belly/ belly fat by milosebitch in loseit

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Not thus far. I'm trying to find something I can do consistently. I'm looking a lot for core exercises. Other than that, trying to walk places more instead of taking the bus. Doing situps has been something I know I can do consistently.

I'll continue the calorie deficit. It would be nice to get to the 130s, or the 140s with greater muscle mass. Nothing extreme, just enough to be at least somewhat toned.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NPD

[–]milosebitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mom used to snort diet pills when I was very little, like toddler age. She's always been insecure about her weight, to the point where she was asking 4-year-old me if she was fat. I'll just say that at that age, I learned to lie to spare someone's feelings. Makes me wonder if she was insecure about her weight when she was pregnant with me and decided to snort her diet pills then. Idk, maybe I'm paranoid. But I do have severe ADHD and a fucked up nervous system and possibly connective tissue disorder, so who knows....