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Couple of points:

There are two types of psychosis, with and without insight. If they don’t know they are sick, it will be impossible to get them care until they either heal enough without care or deteriorate enough to harm themselves.

This book is written for communicating to people without insight: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0967718937/

Someone needs to take charge of their care. Then 1) earn their trust, 2) calm them down, and 3) get them regular sleep.

The key to trust is removing threats. They don’t know their brain is under attack so perceive threats in others behavior. Diffuse those threats by taking responsibility for what they think happened and apologizing for it.

Calm them down by making their life as easy as possible. Remove or simply as much of their environment as possible. Eliminate surprises, good and bad.

Choose a family member in good physical shape and have them gain enough trust to lead daily activities. Wear your loved one out every day and they’ll want to sleep every night. Then make that place as dark, quiet and safe as possible for them to do that.

Stop focusing on information and start focusing on mood. How they feel and how you feel effects their calm trust and sleep far more than what particular words you and they say.

Find a family support group in your country. Somewhere to share what’s happened and what’s happening.

reading up on your symptoms and the medications being offered you is never a bad idea. you can ask for any information they have on your medications, or you can fanagle more computer time, if it doesn't contribute to your psychosis. since you have to be the one to decide whether or not to allow a substance into your system, take some time to consider your options and what you're willing to commit to.

having been inpatient before, i can relate to the (terrorizing) feeling that you are being misunderstood, taken advantage of, or even forced by people who may not have your best interest in mind. undoubtedly, mistakes are made in diagnosing patients with such short periods of observation, but be careful not to consider yourself a zebra if it all quacks like a duck.

imagining that you have limited computer time, here are some resources to consider, keeping in mind that your doctor might discredit anything you found on reddit:

1. Ask for a copy of the DSM-5 section on Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders so you can best match your experience to what your treaters are hearing (if they hand you a DSM-4, it will at least get the conversation started about where you land on the spectrum)
   
   
2. If they refuse, read some here to orient yourself
   https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/the-new-dsm-5-schizophrenia-spectrum-and-other-psychotic-disorders/
   
   
3. Learn what you'll be putting in your body (they'll likely go with SGAs, especially if you report seeing bugs on the wall, for example)
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic
   
   
4. What you'll have to go through on the back end
   http://www.willhall.net/files/ComingOffPsychDrugsHarmReductGuide2Edonline.pdf
   
   
5. Depending on how much time you have there, consider ordering
   https://www.amazon.com/Outside-Mental-Health-Visions-Madness/dp/0996514309
   
   
   At the end, if they put you on/you decide to take something, search for it at this website and read forums for anecdotes and find something to feel good about your regimen while you're on it:
   
   https://crazymeds.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage.html

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diagnosis-Psychosis-Olivia-Russo/dp/150553352X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550961414&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=psychosis+olivia&dpPl=1&dpID=41ejwVWHzsL&ref=plSrch

Her story is similar to mine (and possibly yours)... psychotic episode at university, paranoia, delusional, hospitalised, medicated with olanzapine, relapses.. a great read and some good tips

Consider reading this book. Maybe read reviews first and see if something clicks with you. Psychosis is NEVER not related to body's biochemistry. Hope this helps.

I've never been on meds, so I can't say whether they are always good or bad, but I've heard they work for some people and don't work for others and that might be something you should consult with your psychiatrist about.

>s cannibis because I cannot smoke it at my house for my family is against it

Be wary about pot, if you have psychotic symptoms. My girlfriend's dad is a social worker who has dealt with tons of cases of marijuana-caused psychosis. That is partly where my psychosis comes from. Some people think that pot is a harmless drug, but it can have really negative side-effects for people with predispositions towards psychosis.

> it didn't release shit.

Yes! I really disagree with the idea that emotions get "bottled up" and need to be released. In my view, our beliefs and thoughts are generators of our emotions, and if you have beliefs which generate anger, sadness, anxiety, etc. then you will continue to feel those feelings consistently until you deal with the thoughts and beliefs behind them.

I would strongly encourage you reading an old book by the psychologist Albert Ellis: A Guide to Rational Living. It changed my life. He's the grandfather of modern thought-based therapy like CBT.

The basic idea is that our negative emotions come from our irrational thoughts. Psychosis is littered with irrational thoughts like "this MUST be God speaking to me" (when it might not be), or "I MUST be enlightened" (when you don't have to be). Even non-psychotic people have lots of irrational thoughts like "I MUST not die" or "I MUST be loved by everyone I meet".