been there done that it not fun. believing my delusion was off meds, had wife take me to er, final got better once back on meds, I now make sure i have people i trust like my mother let me know if they think i need to call the doctor and see them. had about 2 or three major manic psychosis episodes. On lithium and welbutrin. was battle depression for a couple months. feeling better doctor said to call if i start feeling manic. Sleep and stress are my two biggest enemies that trigger manic episodes, have not had a major one for awhile. Took me as while to final find another doctor after the one doctor i really liked passed away. The woman Psychiatrist i have now seem to really take an interest in how i am doing and not just prescribing meds and rushing you out the door

I hear how upset you were at your partners treatment. I can relate, in my case the police bashed me before dragging me to the hospital in a mess. I was non violent too. Your partner was very, very clever not to overeact to the security guards provocations that you witnessed... amazing really in such a confused state. He is entitled to treatment he understands and consents to... just remember that statement. It sounds like neither he nor you understand his treatment at the moment, and he doesn't consent to groupwork. Most of that can be helped with some better communication. My thinking, if he has a good GP explain the problem and ask her/him to follow it up.

They ended up releasing him after 5 days holding. They gave no explanation for psychosis gave no support for psychosis kept him on same meds and let him go to see his psychiatrist. He has been doing well and hasn't had an episode or issues since other than possibly gaining too much weight from a medication. I understand you guys seen me as just not wanting to accept what was being said or going on but in the end they literally did nothing but hold him for reasons he was already being seen by a psychiatrist for aka his bipolar. They were doing nothing or explaining nothing about the psychosis and I still see it as him being held for no reason since the episode passed by the next day. Our plan is to just make an emergency appointment instead of going to er if this happens again.

Hi...glad to read bf is stable. Since you've made the decision to make emergency apt....I think, base on his pdoc knowledge, your bf knowledge and reading a lot of info about 'pre psychosis bp behaviors' in order to 'Catch' bf before he goes into full psychosis. I went in to psychosis when my sister died....amazing manic phase, then full blown psychosis, Which I talked my way out of a hospitalization...this could have been why bf was kept in hospital...don't know....as well as medication management...https://psychcentral.com/disorders/bipolar/ Best of luck!

It's great that he's found stability..... Big hug.....xo

I've never been diagnosed with psychosis but I have had episodes where I would hear voices and become paranoid, angry and hostile. It would only last a few hrs for me then I would be fine. I was Baker acted in 2014 because of an episode I had because the cops got called. But yes it can only last a night.

Really glad that your BF is doing well. I hope you've discussed your emergency plan with his Pdoc and you've educated yourselves on pre-psychosis behaviors as well as tracking his triggers so you know what to look for and when to get him in to see his Pdoc. I also hope that if he's psychotic again and you can't get an emergent appt. with his Pdoc, you take him to an ER.

Take care,

I'm glad to hear that your bf is back home safe. it didn't seem like anyone was listening to either of you at that place and that is horrible. i have been there. some people should not be in any kind of caring profession. I know i have come across some horrific pdocs in this country who have done a lot of damage to a lot of people, they may have the bits of paper and the degrees but they are clueless at the frontline of treating people and do not know how to listen being distracted by the poles up their asses and their sense of self importance and the power of their 'education'. They tend to think that all patients are idiots and couldn't possibly understand the nuances of diagnosis and ignore individual side affects of meds. we are very lucky if we manage to find those few pdoc with education, heart, common sense and empathy who will walk the path with you guiding you not dragging you along by the hair with his superior knowledge talking down to you all the way. I hope you find a wonderful pdoc and therapist for both of you to get the best treatment for you with feeling railroaded in the process where you can set up an emergency care plan for any future episodes that may happen with either of you and this sort of crap doesn't ever happen again.n hugs and good luck to you both.

sorry 'without feeling railroaded!'

I replied to this a while back, but I was talking on the phone to a friend just yesterday and the subject randomly forgot. Can't remember how we got on it but she mentioned something like "you remember that time..."

And I did not remember "that time"

Evidently at one time, she didn't know whether to just call the hospital for me or not, because I called her one night singing "itsy bitsy spider" over and over. she doesn't know if I called anyone else that (it freaked me out so I asked). But around that time I was having black outs. I'd THINK i'd go to sleep in the bed and wake up in the front lawn, or I'd be cleaning or doing something and I'd "wake up" in the pool. (I don't have it anymore) with all my clothes on.
I remember that part. Because I got a bit concerned myself about all that. I've got a bum foot, and doing anything without being fully "conscious"...oh man. It would NOT be good if I fell.

But oh my god that freaked me out to hear that. Just yesterday. She said she spent a couple of days contemplating if she should call the hospital or not. She asked me to house-sit for her folks with her after that. They were going out of town for a week, and she said she had me house-sit with her so she could keep an eye on me, get me away from the people and environment I was in, see if that would help.
It did.

In short "I want to know if this has happened to anyone else and why he would be fine the next day did you yourself get better the next day?"
Yes. and kind of. She said I hadn't been myself in months, but the day I got to the house and settled in, She said I was "me" again, and I had no more black-out, time missing stuff. And although this was just a one day fine, then weird the next for months until it got to that point, I evidently DID get better the day I got into a new environment. So yeah. It can happen and has.

"I replied to this a while back, but I was talking on the phone to a friend just yesterday and the subject randomly forgot."

I MEANT to say: I replied to this a while back, but was talking to a friend just yesterday and the subject randomly came up and i'd forgotten"

2 thoughts in my head smashing into each other LOL

Hey, Silently, I used to have a very good friend/boyfriend who has now passed away. During the time I knew him, he had been hospitalized numerous times. And I saw things and felt in ways, much as you have written about here. The real main reason why they won't let your boyfriend go is because of legalities. First of all, since he was put on a hold, he had to be kept there for at least 72 hours. Other than that, even though the symptoms of his psychosis had subsided, they had no way of knowing whether or not they were going to stay that way unless they kept him longer anyway. And as for the maltreatment, I have both experienced it myself as well as observed my boyfriend go through it, so I hear you on that one. And pointing that out is not doing anything bad or wrong. If someone doesn't point that out, it will just continue and get worse, just like any other undesirable human behavior.

Her boyfriend was back home around June 30 or 31st.