psychosis and not being able to move on

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all of my best friends and even my brother have stolen from me, literally almost 10 different people (evan, luke, other luke, dylan, adrian, galen, soren, corey, james) all of whom admit to it but show no remorse because they feel like i'm greedy and only care about myself and money. additionally most of them stab me in the back when i'm not there, sharing secrets that i have specifically told them not to share with anyone. all i feel is the cold shoulder of judgement, unnacceptance, and mental abuse. my own stepfather called me ret*d at a restaraunt on my moms birthday, and whenever we are together he won't stop talking, using inuendo dancing around my weaknesses in social situations. its as if he hogs up all the air so there isn't any left for me to live and breath. my dad comes home and yells at me and tells me how he doesn't want me in his life anymore. my mom tells me im not welcome at her house because her toilets broken (its been broken since summer) and the only one that can be used is in the spare bedroom. my entire world and everyone in it is trying to get rid of me.

i don't have any friends, hobbies, or activities.
i don't have any desire to make friends, because every person i have ever known has done nothing but hurt me.
i feel as if there isn't any point in living with nothing to life for. i keep trying to fight darwinism but it seems like the weight of mistrust is pulling me downward in to my own personal hell. it's a very lonely place. very, very lonely.

just started taking seroquil for psychosis. looking for anything good to happen, any sort of light at the end of this dark pissed off tunnel, but no signs yet. don't know how long this can last.

what should i do?

I think you should consider your evaluations of others, and life in general, tentative, and keep in mind that your views, as real as they may feel and seem, may be a product of psychosis. Stay on the seroquel or whatever medication your psychiatrist suggests, and after a few months of treatment, re-evaluate the perceptions you stated here. You might find you interpret the situations differently.

Stress can also influence one's perceptions of things, and some otherwise normal people, if pushed far enough, can experience stress induced psychosis (this is frequently portrayed in movies). What happens during these events, probably through some process triggered by stress hormones, is the brain goes into survival mode. It becomes very binary and pessimistic. If something might be a threat, or might not be a threat, the brain chooses to classify them as threats. What were previously sub-conscious fears that your brain considered and filtered out before they rose to the level of conscious thought, are deemed viable threats and allowed to rise into the consciousness and be classified as actual threats. The fear that a trusted friend or family member will betray the person, becomes realized as a fact at a slight, often unintentional indiscretion by that family member. Negative possibilities for one's actions become the only possibility.

So, take the medication. If you're stressed, try to find things to take your mind off of what's stressing you. Try to relax for a few months and get enough sunshine and fresh air and then, when you're feeling better, re-evaluate your perceptions in the presence of a counselor and see if maybe there were some alternative you couldn't consider before.