What symptoms did you experience during the onset of your schizophrenia? I primarily dissociated.

I don't feel like this issue gets nearly enough attention. They plague psychotic people so much that many fear going to sleep like a child that has watched a scary movie. The only difference is that the movie was played by your mind. Maybe at least awareness that this is a common problem will provide patients some relief. Not being alone is one of the most comforting feelings there is.

Who else has had psychotic nightmares?

i tend to get a lot of delusions around hypnosis or mind control by spirits. i can get sent into a sort of trance that will follow commands. one time it was god telling me to do random things around town like stealing a hoodie and making a cross out of sticks and hang it behind a fast food place. another time there was a certain book i didnt want to read because it would be too triggering, but my body kept seeking it out. i found it in barnes and noble and couldnt put it down because of the trance even though my head was screaming not to.

It's true that some people abuse them. There is nothing to be done about that. Xanax has a legitimate use. 

Panic can remove your sense of thirst. Panic can lower your Niacin levels increasing risk of a cardiac episode.

It's unknown if panic can kill you. It can sustain a HR approaching 200 for over 20 minutes. 

It all gets resolved by a little blue pill. Shame on doctors who dogmatically refuse to give it under any condition.

anyone else have friends that are objects? mine are mainly plushies and old tech like my 2000s digital cameras

I wonder if my restlessness and akathisia are Haldol-induced

I'm DD, from the Discord. I have Schizophrenia. I also have a lot of stuff going on in my life that I'm open to discuss anytime anybody may be interested, like possibly finding a job? What? Yeah. I like to help others, however I can. Anytime someone needs to talk, you can send me a message, and I'll respond ASAP

I'm wondering what are common triggers for psychosis or psychotic symptoms, and if people have different triggers for different symptoms.
Mine are stress and the dark. I'm so sensitive to the dark I get assaulted my all manor of symptoms as soon as I'm in complete darkness, it's been years since I've slept in the dark... My trigger for stress isn't so sensitive, but now I have a fear of stress is inhibits my daily life as a result.

Bonus question: If your triggers are the same as mine (or even if they aren't I'm not your boss), how do your symptoms manifest in those situations?
For me, most commonly in darkness I get all sorts of hallucinations, feelings of being watched, delusions involving there being 'something' in the dark, a sense of impending doom and paranoia, plus if I think of something unpleasant too hard, it will manifest. In terms of stress, it triggers ALL of my symptoms with them being more severe the more stressed I am, though they will usually not occur if I'm around other people. As you can imagine, this snowballs fast, I'll be stressed, then, to start, I'll get stressed about being stressed (because I know it usually ends in psychosis), then my symptoms will stress me further, eventually the symptoms get so bad that I can't sleep, either due to always being in fear, or the knowledge that if I go to sleep too stressed I WILL have sleep paralysis, if I haven't gone into full blown acute psychosis by the time I get to insomnia, then the insomnia will cause it.

I keep doing tasks and fast despite a lack of sleep. I have been missing several doses of latuda but I also have temporary physical meds. I say this as possible causes, but I don't know. It took me a half hour to sit down now bcI kept finding small tasks lol

Irritable and paranoid at several times so I made a psych appointment for next tuesday.

The initial steps to make CNP for the WIN official in every way have already begun. I can't express the joyous excitement I feel about making a difference in the lives of psychotic patients in under funded facilities.