u/sailywaily

I know in some cultures what we frame as psychosis or a psychotic break is seen as demonic possession and jins gaining access etc.

ive read and heard about peoples psychosis and have had what I think was a psychotic break in which i was outside of my body and could hear someone else’s thoughts instead of mine :/

I worked with a service user in mental health once who had committed an unthinkable murder and it was all put down to a psychotic break. (scarey, scarey character he was)

im curious what peoples experiences are with psychosis and what you believe causes it?

edit: “we” as in western culture and im sorry to have generalised like that! I mean that on the west a psychosis is framed as such

I’ve been having a proper shit time and Reddit is warming my heart honestly.

yes it is weird out here u gotta be careful who u interact with of course

but sitting here and just seeing that it’s literally millions of people sat, choosing to spend their time encouraging, advising, and helping others, reflecting with each other and just being a weird little community of accepting, random strangers who have no obligation to be kind to each other but are choosing to do so.

like no one could really do anything if we were all total araeholes to each other but instead we’re out here cheering each other on and helping where we can.

my faith in humanity hes been slightly restored.

also love love love reading people’s stories.

my heart has been healed just the tiniest bit since I made this Reddit account i don’t care what anyone says!!!!

in short me and my sister grew up with an abusive father and weren’t protected from him by anyone.

im the youngest and my sister turned to abusive, bullying, aggressive and intimisating behaviour towards me probably to make herself feel safer. she also resented me for taking our mum’s attention away, and probably because she received more bruises than I, overall.

that hatred and resentment towards has continued and no matter how hard weve both tried to have a normal relationship, the comments, glares, insinuations, social exclusion and just belittling me at any given opportunity has never stopped and has worn my mental health down so badly.

she now has a daughter, and im expected by the family to be happy and spend time and to want to be an aunty.

our parents “didn’t know” she was abusive towards me, and she is always acting bewildered and confused about why I try to keep a distance from her.

im so fucking angry because my chance of having my own family is passing me by the more and more years go by that I just cannot reclaim my mental well-being. and no one seems to care.

and now I am the bad person because I don’t want to be an aunty to a family who hate me.

don’t know why im posting, it’s helped reading things on here about other peoples experience with sibling abuse. if anyone has any advice or words of encouragement as I am at the point of going 100% no contact with this woman who claims to be my sister.