i had full blown psychosis like hallucinations and delusions etc for 16 days abt two years ago but it was super weird bc it would only happen at night time then i’d wake up and it would be gone. i just bought a book on bpd and apparently this can be a symptom, i had no idea why i had psychosis until just now. i was almost 2 months sober at the time so i knew it wasn’t drug related and it never came back so it just makes so much sense now. i have bipolar 2 but i’ve never had serious mania so i ruled that out as well. i’ll include what i read below bc i find it super interesting:

“unlike patients with psychotic illnesses, such as schizophrenia, mania, psychotic depression, or organic/drug illnesses, borderline psychosis is usually of shorter duration and perceived as more accuracy frightening to the patient and extremely different from their ordinary experience. and yet, to the outside world, the presentation of psychosis in bpd may be indistinguishable, in acute form, from the psychotic experiences of these other illnesses. the main difference is the duration. within hours or days, the breaks with reality may disappear, as the borderline patient recalibrated to usual functioning, unlike other forms of psychosis.”