Anyone been labeled psychotic?

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I haven't, but I was almost. I got 2 for "perception differences" or whatever on the Rorschach inkblot test. The normal score was 0 and 4 means psychosis. Before that, my shrink said that I was so depressed that I was almost psychotic; that I had "funny ways of describing things". He said my depression was really getting in the way of me seeing reality right. In the end, after the inkblot test, he said there probably wasn't a psychosis going on but I still had a perception problem. Well, at least he's right that at least part of it was due to the depression.


I heard so many horror stories about antipsyhotic drugs; I'd like to hear your stories!


I'm wierd.

I've been psychotic before; it was cool. It sent me to the mental hostel.

I cannot really remember anything about it other than...feeling like I wasn't in control of my mind and body, I mean; retrospectively it feels like it was a dream.

I was pretty much babbling philosophical intangibilities and equations that only I could understand in the hospital bed (see: delusions).

My first psychiatrist said I had Psychosis and prescribed me Olanzapine (10mg). Which was a complete mis-diagnosis. Anyway, I had a bad reaction to the medication and started to hallucinate. I was seeing the sky change from colour to colour, and hearing my bedroom curtains talking to me. There were some other things that I can't remember that people have told me. Such as, I was saying that there were Giraffe heads growing out of my stereo speakers.(I can't remember that one).

This went on for about 6 months before I got taken off the medication as she had FINALLY figured out that she mis-diagnosed me.

I NEVER want to take anti-psychotic medication ever again after having that experience. Well, not that I need to take them anyway.

My psychiatrist called me psychotic many times mainly because of my "delusions". I take anti psychotic pills and I don't believe I need them even though they do help with some things. The pdocs put that label on me because I believe things like the aliens are after me and put a device in my brain to control me and send thoughts to me. I believe that the government is after me as well for killing 350,000 people with my psychic dreams. I have seen UFO's outside and shadows of the alien creatures in my room. I guess they have the power to go through walls. At times it is very scary but I am used to it now. They used to tell me what to do like cut myself and how to walk ( very slowly) and move. It isn't nearly as bad as it was just a few months ago. My meds are good for something I guess. But when I was on two anti psychotics at once, I had seizures. They were annoying. I don't have the seizures anymore since the doc took me off one of the anti psychotic pills. I don't think I'm psychotic at all because I am sane. Not insane. I don't really hear voices all that often only once in a great while I would hear a conversation or my name being called. How long did your psychotic episode last? What kinds of things did you believe in or see/hear? Was it scary for you?

I had an ex boyfriend call me psychotic once, but that's about it.

I've been told that at times I have psychotic tendencies. I'm not sure if I'm actually more delusional than the average person in a fit of rage or if I'm just not as good at coping with it. My money's on the second possibility.

I've been on a lot of antipsychotics and don't tolerate them very well. I end up feeling very drugged. I sleep a lot, when I'm awake I'm tired. My mind is foggy. I'm apathetic. Then there's the fear I'll develop TD because I've been convinced I'm dependant on the drug. Currently I don't take anything and I'm feeling much better.

The retired doctor I meet with every Sunday for a couple of hours was diagnosed psychotic by the Mayo Clinic in 1998. She isn't but I can see why other people think she might be. There is this interesting dynamic that happens after we have been together for a couple of hours and all of a sudden she becomes this wonderful conversationalist and we talk philosphy and art and New Yorker Cartoons. . .
I am one of the only other female Aspies she knows, and we actually connect for about an hour of our two hour conversation. it's pretty cool. . .

yes,i think...

Hah! I spent most of my secondary education completely convinced that everyone in the room was constantly plotting against me, and I was completely convinced that my entire life was some joke at my expense. I'm speaking literally here. I thought that everyone around me carefully plotted the course of my day and manipulated my emotions. Later, I thought that I was some mental patient, and everyone was keeping up an elaborate pretense to prevent me from realizing it, kinda like some Truman Show thing (Yeah, I liked that movie. So sue me, I can relate). If my folks had realized just how screwed-up I was, there is no doubt in my mind they would have had me commited. I was walking through a half-dream until just a few years ago.

But no, I've never been formally labelled psychotic, and I've been gradually healing from all of that.

Ive never actually been tested for a mental state like that, but Id like to take one some day

I always wondered what it was like to be or go insane, i mean, i wondered if 1 would know it or not. Im sorry you guys have had these issues, i really hope u find a good way to fix them (unless u enjoy it, hahaah )

All my neghboors (formely when I lived with my parents) thought I was crazy my whole life i stood out from the rest of the kids (for obvious reasons.... DUH!! !) but they did not know (recently, i was admitted to from my mom that indeed she told a few neghboors about my conditon, and im sure she told the rest of the neghboorhood cause shes a gossiper)

I got picked on, bullied, s**t happed for years, the kids i grew up with were good when little for socialization skills but later in life (and i guess for good reason to be fair, i mean, if i had been NT would i wanna deal with someone like i was back then) they would screw with me constantly resulting in a fist fight 1 day when I could not take anymore. I won the fight lucky for me, and won in front of the loosers friends (ironicly he was my best freind from childhood) the police came and arrested me for assult, and his parents said i was crazy and on drugs (neather was true). Lucky for me the kid admitted to his lawyer that he started the fist fight and hit me first. I received 50 hrs community service.

Sorry for the rant... anyways, because we stick out many of us according to those around us believ us to be crazy, sad but true. And it can mess up stuff in life, we really gotta be careful, think ahead, and learn as much as possible. heh.

Woodsman25, that's's too bad; the judge probably just wanted you to do some free work for his friends. Did your ex-friend also get community service? No? Grrrr...

I once had a kid say to me "Tim, you're one of those kids I could see going crazy and shooting up the school"
Bothered me a little...

MidnightJudge, I remember two people at one of the high schools I went to saying that I was a school shooter candidate. One of them said "One day Anastassia's going to come to school and shoot all your asses off!" She later asked me if I planned to rip off a Carrie at the prom or something similar. The other said I was suicidal and I'd shoot this one, I'd shoot that one, I'd kill that one... A third girl saw the scratches on my wrists that were actually from my cat, and asked me if I was thinking of committing suicide. The one who said I would rip off a Carrie also asked if I was thinking of suicide.

jeeze, thats horrible. Ppl are or can be awful. Im sure we all have had our dealings with that.

Actually I did my community service in another town beleive it or not, Salvation army, i did work around the store, they liked me and did not understand why I was in their, i only told them I had a fight.

The other kid got nothing, I really wish that could never have happend. I know they hurt me for years, maby i deserved it much sometimes, but they were the kids i grew up with, and if they had not ditched me, or ostrsized me then, they sure did now, they do this day and this occured in 2001 fall, never do they contact me. I even wrote a letter to the kid i hurt saying im sorry, i want to just tell them sorry for being a jerk often and even tho in high school they isolated me and screwed with me, they meant alot to me as a kid, i learned alot about socializing by them, and as odd as i was at least when i was little, they did not hurt me the way they did later in life, even tho i did my fair shair of self centered, @$$whole type stuff too. Heh, i got so deep into what I was writing i forgot what this thread topic was, hahahaha.

Ohhh ya being called crazy. No the judge let me off the hook granted I did 50 hrs of community service the kids inshurance compnay payed alot of money he went to the hospital where his lawyer claimed he had suffered a 'floating fracture' on his left cheakbone. Although little the hospital could do, suppsedly a fracture not severe would heal without anything, as their is no cast for your face i guess, and the bone was or they said at least cracked and not broken.

It was a fight, and HFA/AS ppl dont think well at an instant, it was an instant reaction to a punch, im not a tough guy or anything, first real fist fight i ever been involved in. To this day I feel guilty, about it, maby at the time i was crazy, ok sorry for the long ramble everyone/......