I have recovered from being hospitalized for mania recently. My medication has already been tapered off and I am now functioning normally drug free. However, there is one symptom that hasn't disappeared and that is whenever I look at pictures of people that I don't know, I would have this perception that I have already seen them before. I had this symptom when I was hospitalized in 1994 and one evening after a scuffle with the attendants in the hospital , there was a Time magazine with a picture of a group of Nigerian folks(a family suffering from starvation or something) that for sure I have never seen my whole life. But now their faces seem to jump off from the page just like when you see your face from amongst a group of people that you don't know and all at once you know that it is you. This symptom disappeared soon after then so it never bothered me. Now it is 2010 and after this most recent episode, when I look at newspapers and magazines, it seems like I have seen these people before. Question is, is there something in my brain that got permanently messed up because I went manic?
Seeing familiar faces
Posted - 10/18/2010 : 17:42:30
