How difficult is life with a person suffering from brief psychotic episodes?
Pretty difficult. I’ll use myself as an example: I have a hard time sleeping because I often feel someone else is in the room with me, or outside my bedroom door. One time I had a feeling that something was skittering against my skin, while I was sleeping, and I woke up to see hundreds of daddy-long-legs crawling around, and on top of, me. I screamed, threw off the covers and tore out of my room throwing off the bugs. I stopped in the bathroom, and after a minute’s time of calming down, I went back into my room and did a search. There were no bugs. I find it hard to stay up at night, because I keep seeing moving shadows in my peripheral vision and my paranoia reaches a critical level (not to say I don’t see hallucinations in day.) One day I closed the fridge door and saw someone standing but mere meters away. I dropped and broke the jar of apple sauce before he vanished. I instantly left the house, and went for a drive, all the while constantly believing I was being followed; and all t
