DXM psychosis

[dabro]

ok, day before yesterday I took some cough and cold medicine and I wanted to get high. So when it kicked in I felt fine but after awhile I started getting delusional. Like I did when I went through the meth induced psychosis.

I started thinking I was one of the prophets that was going to be killed by the Anti Christ and such. Today I just deal with residue. I mean it's like it's there but it's not.

I don't want to go to the hospital and I just saw the doc yesterday saying my anxiety is really high. They wouldn't help with that.

So I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never try that again and I just want this delusional residue to go away. Please can someone help me?

 

[orangeness365]

I'm not sure if I can help you or not. Psychosis is really hard to recover from. It takes time for the mind to heal. Personally I see a psychologist to talk through my problems and past psychosis, and see a psychiatrist for an antipsychotic and antidepressants to suppress the hallucinations and psychosis. Even with all the help and the psychosis cleared up, it took a while to regain some normalcy. It's good that you saw the doc recently. Sometimes just taking your mind off of focusing on the thoughts you had while in psychosis and engaging in something that is distracting and non-stressful helps, I think.

 

[skalle]

I second the above. After a psychotic break, I just try to do something, anything, to keep my mind off of it. Of course, I tell someone about it, assuming someone wasn't there, but then I try to just resume business as usual. Thinking about it gives legitimacy to the delusions. They don't exist. They aren't real. Therefore, there is nothing to think about. I might journal it in case I need to come back to it later for treatment purposes, but otherwise, that's my strategy.

 

[Jaxxi]

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ok, day before yesterday I took some cough and cold medicine and I wanted to get high. So when it kicked in I felt fine but after awhile I started getting delusional. Like I did when I went through the meth induced psychosis.

I started thinking I was one of the prophets that was going to be killed by the Anti Christ and such. Today I just deal with residue. I mean it's like it's there but it's not.

I don't want to go to the hospital and I just saw the doc yesterday saying my anxiety is really high. They wouldn't help with that.

So I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never try that again and I just want this delusional residue to go away. Please can someone help me?

It just takes time. what was your meth induced psychosis like and how did that come about? During a high or withdrawal? what happened?