I started to talk, talking to myself a lot more, and started to hear my own voice doing like a running commentary a lot. My own sort of voice became a lot more vocal in my head. And so I think it was during this time I started to notice things like voices in my head. But I’d never really sort of noticed how deeper it went, or kind of how much worse it got during this period. Invasive thoughts and “voices”Īnd so I’d always had kind of depression and anxiety. And I go through periods when I've got psychosis and I kind of can't really do that, which is quite frustrating. It was just a bit frustrating, because obviously I kind of the only thing I really enjoy doing in life is kind of socialising and talking to people. So, I would be talking to someone and suddenly my facial expression will start smiling or something and obviously becomes or comes across as a bit peculiar. Often sometimes the thoughts would be so concentrated fully on my head that I kind of will start reacting them. You know, I mean the buzzing thoughts mean I can't sit still. Whenever I've had psychosis, I can't concentrate on my work and I can't concentrate socialising. I then got really stressed, really piled up my work and I couldn't really concentrate on my work for more than about five minutes. They cut that, because it was- for everyone not just for me- in November. Kind of the weird thoughts were kind of affecting my ability to function with my flatmates, with my course mates with everyone and then they cut my, 'cause I had a support mentor, specialist tutor since I was, when I first went there, because I have Asperger's as well, when I was diagnosed when I was eight. I started becoming kind of weird thoughts, weird interpretations of social events. But experiences didn’t always fit neatly into any of these descriptions, and could be harder to describe, such as invasive negative thoughts or losing touch with reality. That's what it looks like and it just fits goes in there sort of thing.People could experience one or more of these at one time and these different psychotic experiences could feed into each other. So like in films if it's in a-it comes up as somebody’s memory. That's how I, I relate it so people can understand. And how was it, but obviously it sounds like it was different to a memory although you talk about it as like a memory, because it looked like a visual thing. Like how- like when people were dreaming or remembering something then it flashes and it's gone, sort of like that. And I saw something and I knew that it wasn't real, because it I looked at this figure and it was there and then it wasn't there and I hadn't experienced that before. Yeah, when I think the first time it happened, I was walking my dogs. What were you doing at the time? What do you remember about that time, so was there a sort of first time it happened or a first time that you realised that other people couldn't see those same images? I basically just started seeing like images that were- that other people couldn't see. That you can still be experiencing a psychosis.Īnd tell me a little bit about your experiences? Is it something that's always been there? So I think that's useful to know if you are someone who is experiencing it and you don't have voices, don’t hear voices. I think it can be a bit of a misconception that someone with psychosis hears voices. Psychosis (young people) Having hallucinations, paranoia and delusions Advice to others from people with experience of psychosis.Views about causes of psychotic experiences.Future plans and recovery for young people experiencing psychosis.Social life and relationships with psychosis.Housing, managing finances, and getting benefits with psychosis.Being in school, college and university with psychosis.Support groups, charities and sharing experiences online.Talking and other therapies for young people experiencing psychosis.Being treated in hospital for psychosis.

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