MASSIVE TW FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF MY HALLUCINATIONS
-BUGS
-DESCRIPTIONS OF PARANOIA
-DEREALIZATION
-DISTURBING THOUGHT PROCESS/IMAGERY DESCRIPTION
i ranted about this a little on my twitter, but i can talk more long form here, so i'm just gonna dump my thoughts about my unhealthy brain
living with a psychotic disorder (which is a diagnostic hell of a process away from being confirmed bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder in my case) is absolute hell. i can't describe the way the paranoia eats at my every day life and makes living an absolute nightmare some days. the shadow people in the corners of my eyes, the sounds of the bugs in the wall or under my skin that i know aren't real, the feeling of being touched when nobody's around; this stuff absolutely terrifies me
i feel like i handle it as well as i can in my current condition and god knows mental health medical care is absolute hell to get your hands on, but it's still not pleasant to say the least
i've seen posts from time to time (not as often as some people say, but still enough to be concerning) about people manifesting or wishing for mental disorders such as schizophrenia and i just... i'll never understand that
i'll absolutely never understand the desire to live like this, to never know what's real and what's fake in your own world, in your own mind. i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy and i hope others who struggle with it are able to make it one day at a time
god knows you guys are absolute troopers for just being able to tolerate it every day and i have so much respect for every single other person who has a psychotic disorder
above all, please take care of yourselves, and i'm gonna keep trying to do the same
it's gotten too much lately... i've been trying to deal with it, but the whispers are so loud in my ears and i can practically hear the people outside stalking me (even though i know it's just a delusion), not to mention the manic episode i've been in for like a month or two now, time doesn't make any sense anymore
i'll make it through ok, it's just another weight on my shoulders, but it feels good to rant about it sometimes
it brings me back to reality in a way
Felt the need to add a little more
another thing that i'm sure others who have similar mental issues deal with is the absolute terror of being watched constantly online.
it's such an odd dichotomy; feeling like you've been cut off from the world in all forms while also being acutely attentive to every single interaction and view on your posts out of fear of a particular person
i guess trauma does that to you...
i won't go into detail, but there is someone who has hurt me gravely and that i have also hurt gravely...
it's not something that can ever be repaired and after the way this person hurt me, i don't ever want it to be, but... the lingering fear of them still haunts me every single day... it almost drove me away from art all together
it's especially bad knowing this person is about 5x my size on every single platform if not more... so what could i even do about it if they ever went up against me? absolutely nothing
and it's all just interpersonal things that have no business being public. kids growing up and hurting each other in exceedingly painful ways either out of ignorance or just a lack of development to rid themselves of the qualities that hurt people they care about
but it still just doesn't stop the way it terrifies me every time i see one of our mutuals like my posts... or the way it scares me to even mention that i've been hurt in the past out of fear or retaliation that, in all reality, likely was never there to begin with...
but it's hard to know if i'm gaslighting myself into believing that, too.. it's just so hard to know
and it's even harder to know what to do