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Posted by Lamdage22 on May 9, 2015, at 12:55:25
Well my Nardil time didnt make me too popular...
I was ranting about how my father raped me and screwed everything else up which he didnt.
Nardil was great for social anxiety though.
Any way to reproduce this? Gaba-T inhibitor?
Posted by Lamdage22 on May 9, 2015, at 12:56:30
In reply to Destroyed reputation and how to live with it, posted by Lamdage22 on May 9, 2015, at 12:55:25
just without the psychosis please.
Posted by Lamdage22 on May 10, 2015, at 10:53:48
In reply to Re: Destroyed reputation and how to live with it, posted by Lamdage22 on May 9, 2015, at 12:56:30
It was part of my psychosis and i thought i was doing the right thing.
Posted by Tomatheus on May 10, 2015, at 13:42:30
In reply to Re: Destroyed reputation and how to live with it, posted by Lamdage22 on May 10, 2015, at 10:53:48
Lamdage,
I think you're right that a person's reputation can become damaged as a consequence of being in an intense psychotic state involving delusional thinking. I would say that my own reputation has been damaged in a way as a consequence of believing and saying delusional things. So, how does one live with a reputation that's been damaged from being in a psychotic state?
I may not have the best answers to this question, but I would recommend trying to rebuild your credibility and the trust that others have in you by acting in a way that demonstrates that you can be taken seriously again and that you can be trusted again. At the same time, you may need to remind those who were in your presence when you were making off-the-wall remarks that your tendency toward delusional thinking was at least in part influenced by what's likely disrupted brain chemistry, whether that was due to the Nardil that you took, a psychiatric illness with psychotic features, or a combination of the two. Reminding others of this might not necessarily lead others to be more confident that you won't end up thinking and saying delusional things again, but I think that it might help them to understand that you're fighting a battle with something that can lead you to say things that aren't in line with what you would otherwise say.
But again, I would say that doing what you can to rebuild the trust that others have in you is important to repairing your reputation. Like a lot of other things, a mental illness can have a damaging aspect on many aspects of our lives, and if we achieve some semblance of a recovery from our illnesses, rebuilding after the worst of the damage is done is a big part of moving forward once the worst of the symptoms have subsided. I think that a lot of the "rebuilding" effort that I speak of should involve getting involved to the fullest extent possible in some of the same activities you were involved in before you experienced psychotic symptoms, but I also think that reaching out to those who were in your presence while you were experiencing your worst psychotic symptoms to try to strengthen your relationships with those individuals is important. So, while we can't so much erase what we did and said while we were experiencing delusions, we can always improve ourselves and take advantage of opportunities to positively change ourselves and the world around us as those opportunities present themselves.
Tomatheus
Posted by Lamdage22 on May 10, 2015, at 13:55:25
In reply to Re: Destroyed reputation and how to live with it » Lamdage22, posted by Tomatheus on May 10, 2015, at 13:42:30
Maybe its all in my head.
I dont usually meet any of the people that witnessed my delusional rant.
Posted by Tomatheus on May 10, 2015, at 14:14:58
In reply to Re: Destroyed reputation and how to live with it, posted by Lamdage22 on May 10, 2015, at 13:55:25
> I dont usually meet any of the people that witnessed my delusional rant.
For the most part, neither do I, although I shared a number of my delusional ideas with my dad. But I don't think it's just "in your head" that there's stigma attached to having experienced psychosis. I think that there's a tendency to view those who've experienced psychosis as being less predictable and less trustworthy than those who haven't experience psychosis, and I think that such views (even if there's some degree of truth to them) can have an impact on our reputations. I worked as a newspaper reporter at one point before the onset of my psychosis, which is a line of work where credibility is key, and I definitely think that if I were to attempt to go back into news reporting that I'd have a battle to fight to re-establish my credibility. So, I definitely think that the struggle to rebuild the trust that others have in us is very real, even if the individuals from whom we're looking to gain trust weren't necessarily around us when we were saying things that were off-the-wall delusional.
Tomatheus
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