It's Difficult to Keep a Support System When You Scare Everyone Off in Your Life

[ArmandCNP]

It's important for psychotic people to have a personal support system. It can consist of family. It can be made up of friends and acquaintances. They're all individuals that are vital to one's stability. Unfortunately, psychotic symptoms can make these relationships difficult if not impossible to maintain.

It's a catch 22. The very thing psychotic people need support for is the very thing that can run supportive people away. It often happens as a direct result of persecutory delusions. The people in the support system may end up getting accused of mistreating the psychotic person so frequently that they simply can't withstand the endless false accusations.

The sad and unfortunate truth that psychotic individuals have to accept is that they can't fault their supportive friends from either wanting space or having the desire to cut ties permanently. Regardless of whether or not the psychotic person is at fault, they have to accept that they weren't being very friendly toward their personal support system.

The only option psychotic people have is to give people their desired space and hope for the best.

[Silent_Odd]

I completely agree with this - those who I may rationally know have proven to be there for me often are the ones that the persecution delusions hit the hardest. Believing that everyone else hates me/thinks lowly of me/I am just scum when compared to makes sense and doesn't impact much of my day to day. Something I just wave to the background of my acknowledged existence and move on. But when it comes to loved ones.. that is where I get tripped up bad. I second guess everything I do, everything I say terrified that I am scarring them even if I don't see it.
Maybe just the own media I have consumed feeding it, but the movies (ie Voices) where it shows the delusional person in an okay spot and then the "reality flash" where they are in a hellhole. I fear that type of situation but with my loved ones. And it is so hard to try and tell myself that it is all in my head when how I am experiencing the interacts is so painful on the regular when I am in that kind of state.