My Friend has Psychosis Vol. This can't be real life

One of my best friends suddenly has psychosis, he has been in bad shape before being diagnosed, he didn't eat for a couple days and not sure if he was sleeping or not. He had sobered up from taking all types of drugs, and I think the withdrawal didn't allow him to eat. He also told me about a strange lucid dream he had.

After going to the hospital ( for not eating, and plan was to go to rehab) they said he needed a psych evaluation, he's staying at a mental facility now. He called me today, and believes I was in this dream with him where he got all this money, and made a clothing line and stuff. He was asking me questions I don't have answers to. He said he's in the right state of mind, but the things he's saying are not real. He made me breakdown and cry as I was going along with his stories.

Anyone else ever experience this situation before? Is there any chance he will come back to normal?

He's on medication now, and this is just scary and sad for me. I want my friend back

 

Tireless Drive said:

One of my best friends suddenly has psychosis, he has been in bad shape before being diagnosed, he didn't eat for a couple days and not sure if he was sleeping or not. He had sobered up from taking all types of drugs, and I think the withdrawal didn't allow him to eat. He also told me about a strange lucid dream he had.


After going to the hospital ( for not eating, and plan was to go to rehab) they said he needed a psych evaluation, he's staying at a mental facility now. He called me today, and believes I was in this dream with him where he got all this money, and made a clothing line and stuff. He was asking me questions I don't have answers to. He said he's in the right state of mind, but the things he's saying are not real. He made me breakdown and cry as I was going along with his stories.


Anyone else ever experience this situation before? Is there any chance he will come back to normal?


He's on medication now, and this is just scary and sad for me. I want my friend back


 

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One of my mans I grew up with just got outta prison after a damn near 10 year bid ...his mind ain't right n he ain't the same ...talked to him and he wasn't making any type of sense but he was dead serious ...everybody be talking bout how they see him just wandering the streets around the way aimlessly , even asked somebody went to school with for change ...didn't even recognize the person ...sad to see and he really needs some help

A friend of mine had an uncle who dealt with that for a bit. It was wild knowing that a lot of what he was telling me he had just manifested in his brain.

My friend's uncle is cool now. He slipped and fell and went into a coma for a few weeks, and he came back that way. He spent some time at a psych ward and eventually he was okay to leave.

Just stick with it and keep supporting him. I know it's a tough and scary situation and I can't imagine it being my close friend.

happened to my good friend from college...22 is about the onset age for schizophrenia, too...

went to his apartment and he painted the entire thing in these wild designs, walked down the block to get some food he was darting in and out of the street during rush hour, was talking about voices...

he withdrew from school the semester before graduation, only recently heard from him found out he works for his dad's company as a supervisor...

Knew this chick that was a bar head. Im talkin at least 10 a day.

Tried to quit and got brain damage and was in a coma for a few days.



Knew this other vato that was a sherm head, he would always keep his koo tho, one day he smoked some bad **** wit some weird dudes and homeboy aint been the same since. In his 30's at his momms crib, seein stuff that aint there and then catchin amnesia. Hr was in and out the luney bin at one point.



Drugs can do some ****** up stuff to your brain.

Dont worry op. He will be fine. Im not going to get into detail but ive had it twice. Meds and checking in with my therapist weekely helped.

substance-induced psychosis can persist for more than a year and then subside.
it will not go away without medication if it's organic brain damage or a disorder like schizophrenia. schizophrenia also has a general onset age of early 20s. how old is your friend?

Have a family friend who smoked some laced bud and now is a schizo. Super cool and all the women dug him. Now he Stays seeing **** and his mom takes care of him due to the state the meds have him in. Only normal thing about him is that he will look at a booty walk by.

I want to try acid but I'm scuurrred of dis

hhaze said:

Dont worry op. He will be fine. Im not going to get into detail but ive had it twice. Meds and checking in with my therapist weekely helped.

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Yeah, I hear therapy was a part of my friends uncle recovering.

Gentrification said:

I want to try acid but I'm scuurrred of dis

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If you have a shred of doubt about how "ready" you are, then don't do it.

I had a decent enough experience, but it can definitely get intense.  Plus the trip is long as ****.  The first three hours are pretty much all "this is awesome!", then the next 6-8 hours are "...yeah I kind of wish I was normal again."   

Comparison Ford said:

Gentrification said:

I want to try acid but I'm scuurrred of dis

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If you have a shred of doubt about how "ready" you are, then don't do it.

I had a decent enough experience, but it can definitely get intense.  Plus the trip is long as ****.  The first three hours are pretty much all "this is awesome!", then the next 6-8 hours are "...yeah I kind of wish I was normal again."   

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My sister and her friends used to do acid and break night in Central Park.

I envy her for those experiences.

I went through it at 18.

My friends tried to help by hanging out with me and picking me up to go do ****, but we kept smoking and I'd just get mad paranoid and dip or try to call the cops or some wild ****.

It didn't start getting much better until I stopped smoking. It has never completely gone away but I am functioning now and know my boundaries pretty well on what I can and can't handle. I'm not an alcoholic but an alcohol abuser, because I can't stand the way the meds make me feel. They haven't really dialed them down to treat specific symptoms enough and I hate that drowzy zombie feeling. Drinking just takes my anxiety and paranoid thoughts away. I think it's kind of becoming a problem cause I've been reckless (in the mildest sense of the word) and drinking at work and a handful of my coworkers know, plus I'm the supervisor

But I've balled my eyes out for losing my friends. It's just a messed up situation. They didn't understand my illness or know what to do at the time and neither did I. It sucks because they wanted to help but I just kept pushing them away.


This is a good little short about something similar that happened to a skater in the UK.

Comparison Ford said:

If you have a shred of doubt about how "ready" you are, then don't do it.

I had a decent enough experience, but it can definitely get intense.  Plus the trip is long as ****.  The first three hours are pretty much all "this is awesome!", then the next 6-8 hours are "...yeah I kind of wish I was normal again."   

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[emoji]128561[/emoji] yea I feel you

Nah he's ******.... Real talk.


I went crazy a long time ago. You never come back to the norm, sometimes it's for the best.

In his case he was on some **** that ****** him up badly...

He'll be alright though, he'll eventually come to conclusions that his life isn't what he thought it was when he was getting high and revaluate his situation.... That's the only thing you can do really...


I'm sure he didn't go completely nuts. When you go crazy you see that trying to be normal or fit in a certain standard is being insane....

I had a sort of psychotic attack in April 2014, a few days after my grandpa died. I don't remember all of it though. I remember going to bed at around 11pm or so, and the next thing I know it's around 7am and I'm downstairs on the bathroom screaming. Mom said I was yelling about shadows chasing me, though I don't recall. Somewhere in the early morning my mom woke up to me screaming upstairs, rolling on the floor in my sheets. Totally separated from reality.
I think it was around 8 or 9am when I started te become aware of reality again and realizing that I was hallucinating. I showered and then went to the ER, at that point I was seeing flies instead of shadows. The ER did a tox screen and some scans, both showing nothing out of the ordinary. By noon I was still hallucinating (dancing clowns in alternating colors at that point) so I was committed into another hospitals' mental ward. The hallucinations went away later that evening, which is apparently very strange. I was given Zyprexa (anti-psychotic) for a few days but I didn't really have any strange symptoms for the rest of my stay.
They released me after a little over a week, clearing me of any mental illness. The doctors told me to get my rather large brain cyst examined further but that didn't provide any answers either. I was born with the cyst and it was never seen as a problem. Several specialists concluded it was possible the cyst played a role but they couldn't really determine that unless they examined my brain as I was having an attack. One of their tests was monitoring my brain for a week while trying to evoke an attack. Probably one of the worst experiences of my life. Forced sleep deprivation, random flashing lights to test for epilepsy, having your whole face and hair full of electric nodes, ... Might as well have been a torture camp. No significant results from that either so it felt like a huge waste of time.

Today I still don't have the slightest clue what caused it. The loss of my grandfather seemed to be some sort of trigger. Medication side effects were ruled out too. I have some mild residual symptoms since the attack but it doesn't really bother me. Objects in my peripheral vision start moving slightly if I focus my sight on the same area. The only time it's really noticeable to me is if I'm on the toilet and the doorknob starts twitching sligthly left to right. I haven't had any attacks since then so I don't see it as an issue.

OP, probably the best thing you can do is to be there for your friend and support him as he undergoes psych evaluation. It's a scary experience and the stigma associated with mental illness is another reason he'll need good support from his close surroundings.

Tireless Drive said:

I was in this dream with him where he got all this money, and made a clothing line and stuff. He was asking me questions I don't have answers to.
 

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Sway?

Comparison Ford said:

Gentrification said:

I want to try acid but I'm scuurrred of dis

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If you have a shred of doubt about how "ready" you are, then don't do it.

I had a decent enough experience, but it can definitely get intense.  Plus the trip is long as ****.  The first three hours are pretty much all "this is awesome!", then the next 6-8 hours are "...yeah I kind of wish I was normal again."   

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Accreate

GWAP said:

Sway?

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I think OP just trolled TF out of us.

Yaje1Christ said:

Nah he's ******.... Real talk.


I went crazy a long time ago. You never come back to the norm, sometimes it's for the best.

In his case he was on some **** that ****** him up badly...

He'll be alright though, he'll eventually come to conclusions that his life isn't what he thought it was when he was getting high and revaluate his situation.... That's the only thing you can do really...


I'm sure he didn't go completely nuts. When you go crazy you see that trying to be normal or fit in a certain standard is being insane....

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Lots of bold, unfounded statements here.

LIONBLOOD said:

 
If it's drug induced he can recover. If it came of nowhere it carries a worse prognosis. Hope he is ok.

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Hard to say if it's really drug-induced considering that OP didn't tell us how long he had been off of the drugs before the symptoms started, let alone what drugs he was taking.  

One of my closest homeboys Lil bro going thru some **** right now. He was always cool as hell, graduated from one of the better high schools in the city. We used to let him drink with us from time to time but none of us smoked so neither did he. He ended up going to school down in florida, he roommate was a stoner basically, he ended up smoking and eventually got laced by someone down there. They found dude in someone's bushes in his underwear, he had shattered his phone because he said he felt someone following him. This was maybe 3 yrs ago, they went and got him and he hasn't been right since. Dude just sits around and smokes all day he sometimes loses his cool of he doesn't take his medication and do crazy **** but it's sad seeing him like that.

Another dude I went to high school with got his blunt laced also. Dude ended up creating a alter ego, even made a Facebook for it and would have conversations from both of his fbs under pics. Dude was recording long *** videos on fb talking conspiracy ****, mysterious voices telling him the secrets to the government etc. **** scary, that's why I only drink from a bottle that I open, I'm good on everything else.

That's some wild **** forreal no disrespect to your boy but I would be on alert around dude with the alter ego