[l8nite]

I’m not the parent, but I had a moment where I physically felt something “break” in my brain (stress related), and ever since then I haven’t been the same person.

The feeling is hard to articulate, but I no longer connect to my feelings or thoughts in the ways I had been accustomed to.

My new behaviors and patterns are somewhat destructive to the life I was building prior to my “break,” and it’s incredibly maddening and depressing trying to balance “good for new me” and “good for the life old me built and the people he loved.”

It goes way beyond not simply enjoying the things I used to enjoy any more.

[jmrm]

> I’m not the parent, but I had a moment where I physically felt something “break” in my brain (stress related), and ever since then I haven’t been the same person.

Same here. I had the mix of a heavy burnout and a broke up a couple of years ago and I'm still recovering.

It's curious how I totally had the same kind of "logarithmic" recovery that some other people wrote in other comments here. It might be how the brain reacts to that.

[kayodelycaon]

Interesting. I had a four month long psychotic break. It started mid-August 2018 when I physically felt something snap in my brain. (See my reply to the same comment)

[sizzle]

Would shrooms help you reset?

[Enginerrrd]

I'm pretty pro psychedelics, but you should know it's generally a REALLY bad idea for anyone with a history of psychosis to use them, to the point that I really implore you not to recommend them so casually to someone with such a history. That cohort is at very high risk and the use of psychedelics can really exacerbate the condition and make people less functional.

[kayodelycaon]

Yup. I’m bipolar.

[kayodelycaon]

I’ll pass. I’ve already had the shrooms experience and the complete brain reset without them.

I’m on antipsychotics and no one is going to let me go off them, including me.

I’m never, ever going off my antipsychotic.