Had a pretty validating experience at work yesterday. One of my co-workers brought up how there should be a term for that post-episode period (mood, psychosis, both) where you're no longer in the episode but not quite better yet. This can last days to weeks. I know this period well.

When I spoke up to relate to that I mentioned how after my last psychotic episode, during that period, it was like I had to unlearn my delusions. Once I was on a med that kept the psychosis and mania away, the internal pressure and focus and inability to disbelieve the seemingly random shit my brain would put together was all gone but the delusions themselves were a bit like wheel ruts in a dirt road. I had to learn how to get out of them.

(That process is still ongoing, though very uncommon now. But it was worst in the first few weeks after.)

I didn't say all of that. But it was really nice to see other people have experienced this too

#Bipolar