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2:58pm June 17, 2014

How to help someone having a psychotic episode

bittergrapes:

As I have mentioned before, I have psychosis. Few people understand this disorder, and there is a ton of misinformation out there vilifying those who experience psychosis, calling us dangerous or even ‘evil’.

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Also, with any given person, make sure beforehand that these are things they’d want done.  There are people for whom being put in a psych ward would be the worst possible thing to happen during a psychotic episode.  There are people for whom being asked “Have you taken your meds?” is a trigger.  So if you know someone with psychosis, talk this out with them at some point, find out what, specifically, they would want, because it’s going to be different from person to person, sometimes in very dramatic ways.

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