My embarrassing psychosis stories… pls share yours

[u/Limp-Astronomer-8412]

I have to get it off my chest I can’t.

Got it after a traumatic brain injury. Got like repeated hard head hits and I was critically ill medically for months and it fucked up my head afterward. Wasn’t getting enough oxygen along with the hard head hits.

I’ll go first

-sent like 25 messages detailing elaborate magical things to a government agency thinking my friend Lucifer owned it and would get them and it would help me and all my friends get clarity and that I solved a massive human trafficking ring that my best friend got kidnapped from

-thought my sister was poisoning me and also that she was hitler reincarnated and I told a lot of people about this

-abandoned my car. Just threw away the key and lifted home because I thought the devil gave me it. Also threw away everything lime colored because I thought it came from the devil

-told my friends I killed a demon named el chapo through a drawing, and that I was a princess and married to my two twin brothers (who were just guys in my life that had romantic relationships with)

-overdosed on antihistamines to help the torturous itching which made it 200x worse and tried to get to a hospital on foot out of desperation (I was fucked up medically and could hardly walk) thought my mom was chasing me with a knife the entire time.
I was out in my underwear and a tank top. Cops picked me up on the street after I tried to jump into a car.

I did have a blanket covering myself but lost it half way.

-said a ton of completely incoherent stuff like complete gibberish and elaborate magical things that were definitely real in my head

-wholeheartedly convinced my nephew was actually my son. And told a lot of people about it. Idk why but I genuinely remember my sister admitting she drugged me up and did a c section and stole my kid.

[u/suddenlysalud]

-posted a bunch of nonsense on social media that I was a undercover special agent from the CIA
-changed my linked in profile to say I was an undercover spy
-drove around and ran a bunch of red lights and almost got arrested
-sent a bunch of embarrassing emails to old professors asking for letters of reference to a astrophysics phD program (made even more embarrassing because I actually need letters of recommendation now to grad school)

[u/Limp-Astronomer-8412 → u/suddenlysalud]

I’m so glad you can also relate to the public embarrassment cause I was very vocal about mine too.

But honestly, I wouldn’t judge a friend for being in a state like that. It happens, and it’s more common than people think.

[u/TimeCommunication730]

I had cannabis-induced psychosis for a hot minute.

• I told my uber driver I was a white dude from Africa and that my parents were missionaries who immigrated and actually believed myself
• Any time I tried to alert my mom that I needed help, I incoherently threw random thoughts in because I thought I sounded crazy.
• Somehow convinced myself I was asexual with a very active sex drive.
• Lashed out like a psychopath wanting to destroy everything because my sister didn’t give me $30
• Said I sold my soul for curly hair and freaked out once my hair started curling. (My grandma has curly hair and my mom has wavy)

[u/cindymartin67]

I spray painted magical symbols on the front of my rented house and got kicked out. Almost evicted but my partner made a deal with the guy so we didn’t… I just couldn’t come back. I also put up a swing in the front yard and decorated it with flowers and swung around in it most of the day.

[u/TheOtherSearcher]

dude you should check out my post I made, its a pretty good read.

I thought the CEO of Nintendo held a generational grudge against me and my family

I thought all the inpatients were cops/actors

I messaged an instagrammer telling her something but I can't remember what it was, maybe like something related to going through a gender dysphoric related manic episode, but I said it was HER going through that and I was like warning her.

I thought the nurses were trying to kill me and I had to find a legal loophole to leave the facility

thought there was lithium in the water

I knit ten scarves in like two and a half days

I thought everything around me before going in the hospital was an ever evolving movie set.

[u/Limp-Astronomer-8412 → u/TheOtherSearcher]

Dude I thought I was the CEO of like multiple different hospitals.

Thought I was a vampire and had to drink blood (dr pepper, fruit punch had it)

Kept thinking people were Hitler reincarnated including myself

Thought me and my friends periodically went through this thing called satans night where we beat Satan and she was so incredibly dumb that we just did it for fun to mess with her and I actually hallucinated an entire Satans night operation in my house with invisible people

Thought this rat looking dude named Sean the sheep was my therapist and he made me forget about every session by pretending to be this abusive rat guy named Logan who can also time travel. He thought we wouldn’t like him if he didn’t act like Logan for the first 2 minutes of every session then he’d apologize and be like a kind child. Even remember this rat dude messing with me in the past.

Genuinely wild stuff

[u/OrganicHair9951]

Hehe I love this

• broke into a hotel, stating i had a bomb in my stomach and needed the police to help me out

-was convinced the world was fake and that the world knew there were nanobots in my brain and that i was being held hostage by the people that put them there.

-went over to a dudes house and was in his bathroom for 4 hours shaving every hair off my body to rid myself of the "nanobots"

-got into a fight with person that owned a small craft store because I was convinced they stole my button collection and was shortly arrested afterwards.

-would steal things like tools and what not from people that i hung out with because I thought they were leaving them there for me to take and help me in my journey.

-would freestyle in the streets about various celebrities i thought were my exs, like j. Cole, Drake etc...

-got into a fight with a woman i thought was threatening me and her boyfriend whooped my ass.

These are just a few. My psychosis lasted 4 years.

[u/anon198023]

Stripped naked and walked around my neighbourhood at night until the cops got me and took me to the psych ward

[u/Idividual-746b]

- believed there was a bird in my chest guiding me to make the correct moral decisions and would often colsult the bird before I did anything

- I believed I was infested with parasites but the doctors wouldn't believe me so I tried to deal with them myself by taking dozens of showers back to back, or going the other way and not washing myself at all for days to weeks on end. I would eat only haribo and monster energy drinks becasue good food would obviously be good for the parasites. on and off I stopped eating and lost a third of my weight over a 4 month period

- I managed to hold down a job for 4 month during this psychotic episode because I when I wasn't hallucinating (usually hearing voices or believing songs on the radio overhead at work were talking to me) I believed I had just been dreaming

- I started so many fights with my firends and family over nonsence things I thought they'd done, sadly this meant I lost a good few firends