To think someone that was suffering from psychosis wouldn’t be sending messages

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Talking about it with thoughts and what they see. While actively struggling this is not about someone who’s recovered.

They might. People suffering with psychosis are not all the same - they can present differently to each other. Some may send messages and others may not.

It is quite possible to retain enough insight to realise something is wrong - I have been there myself. What messages are they sending?

I don't see why someone wouldn't to be honest.

Why do YOU think someone with psychosis wouldn't message?

People with psychosis can and do talk about what they are experiencing. There are often moments where they have insight and are lucid whilst being very consumed by it at other times.

It’s very possible

I think they might. I’ve known someone (thankfully recovered) with postpartum psychosis do that. She had enough insight to realise something was wrong.

I had a friend who was hospitalised with psychosis but had their phone and was very much messaging as calling a lot of people about their thoughts etc in the psychosis.

People go in and out of psychosis and would be very able and in my experience likely to do this.

My friend sent me loads of messages when he was deep in psychosis.

It's entirely possible. Psychosis affects people in a multitude of ways, but fluctuating levels of lucidity and/or psychosis being limited to certain things is typical.
A good friend of mine knows when she is starting to experience psychosis because she starts feeling concerned about inanimate objects as though they are living things. She also starts to suspect things in her house are being tampered with. However when this happens she is still functioning and thinking 'normally' in other aspects so she would be entirely capable of sending messages or talking about these things.

They absolutely 100% could be sending messages if psychotic.

Why wouldn’t they?

just because someone is having a mental health crisis, it doesn’t necessarily mean they lose all capacity to function as a human being. They can still remember how to perform basic tasks like send a text or make a phone call.

I can attest to this, having had to track down the location of a friend so I could be sure she got help when she contacted me clearly in the middle of an episode of some kind. I was able to track down her parents who thankfully were already aware of the situation as friend was being admitted the next day.

Those suffering from psychosis can experience varying levels of insight. It's possible they could be quite aware something is wrong and want to express this. If you're not sure what to maybe you could speak to a local MH crisis team?

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Personality disorder? Which is still a serious mental health condition, same causes as psychosis usually. But different symptoms.

People can be in psychosis and still retain the ability to perform basic functions like using a phone.

People can send messages during psychotic episodes- I've received them from someone I was close to.

There is no reason why they would not send messages, make phone calls, send emails, or any number of other every day activities.

I've been in psychosis a few times and definitely sent messages. At the height of it I didn't know I was ill but on the come down I was hallucinating and mental for months after but also quite together and knew it was because I was ill

Is there a reason you suspect this person is not suffering from psychosis? History of exaggeration or hypochondria?

One of my close friends suffered paranoid psychosis for months, literally every single day, 24/7, she'd be walking around, going to work, making dinner, etc. utterly convinced that "They" were watching her, that her every text and email was being read, all her online activity was being monitored, and the same person reading all her texts was watching her in real time via CCTV whenever she left the house. She was completely functional, just 100% convinced that this group of people in authority were watching and monitoring everything she did.

She used to turn up on my doorstep whenever she needed to google something she didn't want "Them" seeing (she couldn't phone or text, otherwise they'd know that we were friends, and start subjecting me to the same level of monitoring).

She refused to believe there was anything wrong with her, in her mind it was undeniable and logical that of course the authorities were spying on her 24/7. In the end she was only hospitalised because of the stress and the actions she was doing to avoid them seeing her, like walking miles to use rural payphones. She was clearly not quite right in terms of doing odd things, but she still managed to wake up and commute to work every day.

This is the daftest post I've read for a while .

Sums it up well.

Why do you think that OP? Psychosis doesn't prevent someone from functioning in some way does it?

he OP isn't questioning whether someone with psychosis can send messages. She is asking whether they can send messages that display insight into the fact that they are experiencing hallucinations/delusions. As many here have already said, it is possible for a psychotic person to have this sort of insight, to varying degrees. But the OP's question isn't at all daft, and for all we know might have huge worries and stress behind it, so please do be kind. xx