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I've recently started taking anti psychotics. Hate to be the Debby Downer, the bearer of bad news, but I think that means I am psychotic. These pills have honestly helped me feel less psychotic. I don't get scared at night anymore, very rarely do I let my mind run away with it when I do. I still feel like people are watching me. Through photos, windows, their cars. Following me. But things at work have also been better.
I had inappropriately admitted to one of my bosses, whom I'm not that close to, that I felt very overwhelmed with my mistakes and that I felt like I wanted to kill myself for not being able to perform properly and be the person they need me to be. He got really mad. I shouldn't have said that, but I also don't feel necessarily in the wrong. It mostly came down to the way I said it and that I hadn't explicitly asked for a safe space? Which has been extended to me multiple times, I've taken up my other boss's offer to do so in the past. I don't really understand still what happened there, and it really threw me off center. I was spiraling out of control with anger, sadness, and mostly guilt.
After talking things over with my boss who got mad at me, things have been better over time. That was months ago. And I've been medicated and talking to my more caring, patient, loving, amazing boss more frequently about how I'm really feeling. Everything has been getting better. The communication with my partner, me having more patience for other people's perspectives as I continue working on my mindful, objective approach to calm conversations. Striving to keep them calm. Ending the angry narrative, and to a much steeper challenge I've found, the anxiety spirals. And the medication has been helping with that aspect.
SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M
You'll have bad days and you'll have better days. One of my therapists taught me the term "upward trend" (that doesn't mean popular) meaning things might get a little worse and a little better, and then a little worse again, but over time, the lows get a little higher.

You didn't say anything wrong to your boss. You two are just on two different wavelengths, so to speak.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Antipsychotics are badly named. They have a huge number of psychiatric uses. Don't use the pills as a way to diagnose yourself people can literally just take one to help boost basic depression medication.
Antipsychotics can be used for a number of things,it doesn't necessarily restrict them to psychosis . That's somewhat weird and dangerous to state
It doesn't matter if you are "psychotic" or not... What matters is that this medicine helps you - which it sounds like it is.

Instead of beating yourself up because of the illness that you are fighting, be proud of yourself for being able to reach out and get the help that you obviously need because that step is the hardest one to take - especially for men who are struggling with mental illness.

 
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