Poll Positive Psychotic Symptoms And Ptsd

[Anarchy]

Thinking back to when we were writing up at college and a few times since then, a bunch of us went 72 hours or so without sleep, and several people commented on having vivid dreams with their eyes still open.

I wonder how much of the hallucinating is related to sleep deprivation, rather than directly to PTSD itself.

I realise now that I have acted on inner critic stuff, for example I stopped trying in a relationship because my inner critic was telling me that she would inevitably trade up from me. also my isolating didn't help.

 

[Heather]

I think all the stress is getting to me. Am hearing voices again. Not good.

 

[Crow]

I have auditory and visual hallucinations all the time. Pdoc/T says it's part of the cptsd.

 

[Ronin]

I tend to hallucinate mostly depending on stress + sleep deprivation and have delusions depending on stress + starvation, the times I'm doing both simultaneously (hallucinating and being delusional) I'm usually good at spotting as crazy after time and fixing whatever it is pronto.

I tend to be far worse with partial and/or short term states creeping into my days. If it's more full blown, I can spot it and get rid of it easier. If it's sneaky distortion of reality I don't tend to object so fast.

A lot of my trauma is still having to deal with law crossing nutsos though, so I may not be the best sample for these sorts of discussions, to not being far enough from a type of trauma to judge effects more objectively.

 

[Ronin]

Am hearing voices again. Not good.

A. Don't act on what they say, their input is meaningless for action, if they're stress-produced; it's stress talking.

B. Whenever safe enough, discuss with them. Is X, Y, Z any constructive input?

If they're just trashtalking you and haters, they get the boot. Nobody needs hate, inside their head or outwith.

Which brings me to: Doing what makes them quit or become tolerable?

 

[Heather]

@Cashew am afraid to tell therapist. Don't want to be hospitalized AGAIN. My daughter needs me now more than ever.

 

[Friday]

My understanding that in psych? All roads lead to psychosis.

 

[Kailani]

I hear a voice and I think it's dissociated me under stress it also dissociates to different ages and voices and accents and I can't stop it and it says we a lot out loud. I am aware and it took over and caused me to jump a twin bed from the foot to the head to help a guy and my co- workers were like deer in headlights with the guy. Thank God they laughed and fought to have me stay working with the violent men that I liked. I don't recall ever being able to jump well. How do you do that?! I did not even realize what was happening til I ended up at the head of the bed. I also will hear like a conference as I wake or sleep sometimes; different voices.? Processing. Sleep disorder? I never thought I had delusions until this post; thanks. Haha but I did in Hawaii think that people would know somehow my experiences if I explained them in my head. I was intense grief at the time and dissociating from reality. I think it's all dissociative PTSD

 

[ms spock]

@Cashew am afraid to tell therapist. Don't want to be hospitalized AGAIN. My daughter needs me now more than ever.

You can't be there for your daughter if you fall apart completely, and if you are hearing voices you are distracted and not so present anyway.

You have to apply your own oxygen first.

 

[Ronin]

^^ this.

Also: so who else trained to deal with voices can be helpful to you? I'm afraid that's only a psychiatrist / therapist equivalent of, but there may be more options in the psych health field I'm not aware of, hence asking.

 

[Ronin]

Don't want to be hospitalized AGAIN.

Tell the therapist that, Heather.

That you need intense outpatient care in a way that doesn't keep you from responsibilities to your daughter, but you really need that support right now.

 

[Heather]

@Cashew I did tell her. She has added me to her trauma group that meets on Fridays.