As it is, sometimes, I just like to write here... not sure why, but it helps somehow.
At present, I think I have basically come to a good stage of recovery, from the psychosis, and I suppose the years of over-prescribed AndroGel... and maybe some PTSD... I don't know. Who knows. But it seems I am basically okay now, aside from a residual anxiety and generalized angst. At least the panic is gone.
It has come to rather amaze me, and this might seem a bit late in the game... but the mind seems to take years to truly come to grips with tragedy... that being prescribed prednisone (at high levels) could have resulted in all of... THIS. I think for years after the psychosis, I was just trying to survive and sort out the terrible mess. But of late, as things have become clearer, what happened has become more focused in a way. Many people I know, have encouraged me to sort of "move on", and "put the past behind you"... not so easy really. The subconscious mind seems to disallow it. I even read Jung to figure it out haha.
To think, and I often do, that medical malpractice, and then the prescribed prednisone could have caused such a disaster for so many involved has come to shock me to my core. But tragedy is part of the human condition I suppose... I try not to think I would have been so important as to be immune. Obviously, that wasn't the case. And I hope people forgive me for something that was truly out of my control.
Homicide and Associated Steroid Acute Psychosis: A Case Report - PMC
So, it's not just my case. I have found there are many... SMH. I have just been in a place of somber disbelief about all of this of late. And I don't know who else might be reading this, but if something similar has happened to you, I truly wish you the best.
Just so terrible. Hard to accept. I don't know how I am going to do it. Truth is, finding happiness again in my life... might just not be possible. But I will try.
Melodramatic? Not really. I have considered all this for at least a year.
In this consideration, which has been confusing... one thing that stands out to me anyway, is me. The fact that like a frog in a boiling pot of water, on AndroGel, I changed as a person. My very personality was altered... ending is a very damaged mind. It was slow to come on, but exponential at the end.
I have detailed this within this blog. And it was clear that many did notice radical changes in me. I did not, as odd as it sounds... I simply viewed the alterations as a "better me", and a total sense of egoism took hold. It became my philosophy.
It is very difficult to remember who I was now. Very disconcerting. But at the end, I was actually diagnosis as schizotypal, and as I think back on myself at that time, it makes complete sense; I was detached from reality... my mind resided in magical thoughts, deep insights, strange connections, and this overpower feeling I was a near-genius.
At the end, my mind had become so altered, it is hard to describe it. I tried here in the blog in an earlier post, but I deleted it. It came across as completely unreal, but it was the truth.
In my sense of myself now, I just feel I need to keep going. That I can't let this debacle win. I took all legal battles as far as I could, and when possible, won... which was basically each one of them. A lack of money set me back, but I tried my best.
In my years joys aside
Fires keep my soul alight
Feel alive, stay aligned
In my dreams faces gleam
As their voices come in streams
The few I knew, slipped from view
Hang on, you got me here again
And now, I wish we stayed the same