http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/paranoia-with-bipolar Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:24:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/paranoia-with-bipolar#post-292351 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:44:13 +0000 qwan 292351@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;m wondering, why should I tell my Dr if I don&#39;t want to be put on more Meds. I&#39;m worried about it being used against me now.<br /> What purpose does it serve? I would like to be monitored but I don&#39;t trust all members of staff over the vast multidiciplinary teams that will have access to my records. I can more easily be taken advantage of if they have on there that I might have psychosis right? </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/paranoia-with-bipolar#post-292341 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:15:37 +0000 qwan 292341@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>=/ It probably sounds worse than it is.<br /> I don&#39;t feel too bad when I&#39;m away from the stuff, so it&#39;s not making me anxious all the time. But it is doing it about half of the time when I&#39;m not around the stuff. So say I see someone for an hour, and get paranoid thoughts. For the next 11 hours of the day I&#39;m worrying about it probably up to 5 or 6 hours of it.<br /> It is coming and going but if it gets worse it won&#39;t be good. I don&#39;t really trust my house mate and it&#39;s hard to tell how much of it is me being over the top and how much of it is justifiable.</p> <p>Thanks for your reply. I&#39;m severely overdue a Drs visit anyway, I was supposed to see him the begining of February but it&#39;s hard to get up in the mornings to get appointments. DX </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/paranoia-with-bipolar#post-292339 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:20:50 +0000 OhOkay 292339@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I would say you definitely need to talk to your docotor about this, this paranoia defnitely sounds like psychosis and sounds serious. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/paranoia-with-bipolar#post-292333 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:25:34 +0000 qwan 292333@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Does anyone know when to tell if your paranoia is psychosis?<br /> I ask this because with mania it would likely be severe, but with hypomania or depression it could be more like Psychotic depression. In psychotic depression, you&#39;re AWARE that your delusions or hallucinations are just that, but they still effect your behaviour.</p> <p>I&#39;m not wrapping things in tin foil yet, but I am definitely paranoid, and wondering when I should tell my Drs.</p> <p>It&#39;s hard to find research on it so maybe someone with similar experiences could help?</p> <p>I&#39;m suspecious that everything I say could be used against me. I currently have no income; I quit uni on health and finantial grounds and have no family support. I need benefits but need help filling it out and am worried every person I speak to will somehow be assessing me for my eligibility so when they ask me how I managed to buy food if I have no money or go out, or something, I get worried and feel like I&#39;m stuck.</p> <p>I also have this weird thing where I think if I&#39;m takling to someone online, it might be someone else using their account instead. That isn&#39;t weird, I know, but I get it in REAL LIFE too. I think someone like my sister is actually a uni friend she may or may not know. If I ask them both the same sort of question and they respond the same way I feel its more true. Now I am always aware it makes no sense, sometimes its people of different races, sexes, ages. But it doesn&#39;t matter, and the fact is because of the delusion, I&#39;m anxious and might be ca\reful not to talk to the people I&#39;m worried about in that sense as much as I would before.</p> <p>So my delusions make me anxious and change my behaviour but aren&#39;t putting me in immediate danger right now.</p> <p>Well it might if I stop trusting my Drs. I&#39;ve had times during severe depression where I think they&#39;re either giving me a placebo or poison and I stop going to the Drs or taking the meds. =/</p> <p>I&#39;m only being treated with anti-depressants, no mood stabilisers. My mood isn&#39;t fluctuating too much I don&#39;t think. It&#39;s moving around a little, but I&#39;m not feeling worn out by the changes which is normally what happens when it rapidly cycles and I haven&#39;t had a nice high in ages. I&#39;m more energetic on my new dose but wouldn&#39;t say I&#39;m getting higher or anything. </p>