Tag: psychosis
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Relapse
I had an appointment today with a psychiatrist, and after an hour together he came to the decision that I am suffering a minor relapse into psychosis. He says my symptoms could stabilise, with medication and help from someone at the mental health team. Or I could slip deeper into a new psychotic state, for…
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1.5mg
That’s right, my dose went up yesterday. Let’s see, that means I’m still 2-3 weeks away from knowing if this lithium makes any difference to my mood. I had assumed my spiritual side was related to my mental health diagnosis, as it seemed to have dried up with the antipsychotics. But with my favourite time…
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Prologue
From birth to 40, or aged 07 to 39. Or 1982 to 2021. Let’s start at the very beginning of what I now know as my mental health journey. Around the age of seven I began to have nightmares and daymares of a yellow-eyed monster, scary enough. I also imagined yellow concentric circles on a…