Have you ever had a psychotic breakdown?

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I think out of those in that group my worse ones were...

age 13 - When I getting crapped on by students in my 7th grade class and I actually ran out of PE class one time when we were playing kickball. After I kicked the ball, everybody was screaming at me as to what to do. I didnt know what to do either so I just lost it and ran out of the gym (which then was just a former cafeteria)

age 18 - I'm kinda grateful for this psychotic breakdown because this was the one that finally got someone's attention that I might have AS and led me to be diagnosed.

age 22 - suicidal guilt trip over a drinking incident...kinda went on into age 23 (I got to spend almost a day in a mental ward and got to see for myself what a joke these mental wards were)

and then last year I was this close to attacking my sister with a knife over an a struggle to get me into MedTech...

...two months later, she would win...

My apologies not awesome, perhaps it's time to find a new Gp/ change of meds. Getting on the right meds can take time in my case it took 9 *ing years .

raisedbyignorance love your screen name

Eh, dont feel bad. These couldve just been severe meltdowns for all I know. Not like my family cared. My peers could tell I needed some serious psychological than my own kin can. I was taking Celexa in college but I wasnt taking it appropriately I was often cutting down on my doses, skip days and weeks of my doses, still went out drinking and sh*t despite taking this medication so the suicidal attempts/breakdowns I had in college according to my peers were "well-deserved". Not that I ever became an actual alcoholic and I never overdosed on the Celexa. I just never took them when I needed to so who the hell knows what was making me better and what was making me worse. I've been violent, angry, depressed, suicidal for years before I had the Celexa and the AS diagnosis and then during and after. So I really had NO IDEA of telling what worked and what didnt.

I wonder if I just needed another antidepressant, though it's highly unlikely I'll ever get to try seeing that my family wasnt really supportive of the first time I got counseling and meds.

Not like my family cared.


I'm sorry, can relate.

I 'll ask my Gp tomorrow if one can have a psychotic breakdown every year my suspicion is no your probably correct when you say a severe meltdown

Sergeant Toomey: Tell me, Jerome, if a piss drunk sergeant has a loaded .45 pointed at the head of a piece of dung that the piss drunk sergeant hates and despises, how would you describe the situation?

Eugene Morris Jerome: Delicate. Extremely delicate.

I have OCD/GAD/Asperger's and I have had many many panic attacks in the past. I thought I was going insane, so scared I couldnt get out of bed sometimes. I also had severe depression to the point where I attempted suicide twice. I was always so scared and anxious that I lost interest in anything, this interfered with my Autistic Interest needs(however you want to put it).
I got psychiatric help and it helped me a whole lot, getting put on Zoloft 100 mg I managed to beat pretty much all severe psychiatric symptoms except OCD. I am still paranoid that my household and surgical tool collections will rust up even though I know they probably wont, I mean I dont leave them in the rain. Although there were times when I was using certain tools and when I touched them, a few small spots of tarnish appeared(not everything is stainless), and thats a basic assessment of my current OCD problems, however, its not a tenth as bad as all the psychiatric symptoms combined in the past. Psychiatry has helped me so much that I am proud of psychiatric achievements, now studying psychology. I am sorry though that psychiatry cant help some people as either their brains resist certain medications or their psychiatrist isnt a good one(It happens) although I hope dearly that if you do suffer from psychiatric conditions that you get professional help, even if it means switching psychiatrists or medications until you find the right one.

I think you are exactly right about psychiatry, it doesn't need to be hated.

I am also studying psychology now.