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Psychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000

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Variablepsq4av
LabelPsychosis? - What was going on?
Responses
0 2
2 ladies at work we work closely a 3rd lad y when i am occasionally late plotting to tell my boss who has still not spoken about it to me and is the same with everyone 1
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A spirit in the flat 1
A spiritual change came over me, releasing an inner strength 1
Admin work in a government office 1
Almost everything, I find normality really strange. I watched TV the other day and I found that the advertisers were not trying to sell me anything , they have given up on me. I find Mass Culture very 1
At work it's all backstabbing-between groups of workers. 1
Believed his haemorrage was happening to someone else 1
Coincidences 1
Company staff relations 1
Difficult marital decision whether to separate. Different influences from other people. No one understood me 1
Don't know 1
Everything did not seem right at the time - I felt that everybody was watching me and talking about me 1
For example when I going to sleep I hear noises and voices , if I ask a friend who is here with me they hear nothing 1
From time to time I have felt that friends were talking about me behind my back. 1
Heroin -used this house as a safe house - threatened with shotguns over the phone 1
I WAS HAVINFG DREAMS AND THEN THEY WERE COMING TRUE LAST ON E I WAS MEETING SOMEONE AND THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK 1
I WAS THINKING THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON IN HER LIFE AFFECTING ME. 1
I am quite sure someone/thing is in this house exp/ when my daughters young they saw 2 figures - before brain haemorrhage I was heavy drinker but I swear I was sober when I thought someone in bed wit 1
I can't sleep at night and am afraid of seeing ghosts and I sometimes hear voices saying my name 1
I don't know - I just felt it 1
I felt a presence in the room beside 1
I felt there was a presence in my bedroom as someone had died in there 1
I find myself doing things that I remember doing before; it lasts just a split second. 1
I had a lot of problems with a bill that I paid it is at court at the moment it was a bill that I have not got it was cable television it started in august 98 90 pounds and now they want 418 pound 1
I had to have the house exorcised because there was a bad spirit in the house - it was awful. It hasnt happened since the vicar came. 1
I have been ignored 1
I just felt so different I did not know what it was 1
I just kept having these weird feelings that something bad was going to happen and that if I told anyone they would think I was crackers. 1
I looked in the sky on monday and I saw the clouds in the shape of concord and then the next day there was the crash, it was uncanny 1
I set up a business 5 yrs ago with father and my sister became very jealous and tried to get at me and ended up trying to kill me 1
I thought I was someone else, dont' any more 1
I thought my mom would come and stay with me when she didn't 1
I thought my mum and lover were going to break up and they did 1
I was convinced my husband was having an affair, I constantly telling family and firends about it every day, I had no proof, I made little things into big things and convinced myself, it was an obsess 1
I was making arrangements in London and the communications were breaking down and it seemed significant at the time but it was a random fauklt on the line 1
I was paranoid 1
Intuition about what is going to happen 1
It was just wierd things or happeninings - it didnt last long. 1
Just have headachs and pains all over me/that's about it. 1
LOTS OF LITTLE THINGS NOTHING SPECIFIC 1
Late husbands' presence his warmth is in the house its not a cold feeling. This is the only house we ever had together, for 30 years, so his presence is around the house. 1
MM JUST NOISES IN THE HOUSE AND THINGS MOVING AROUNT JUST PERSONAL THINGS 1
MY BROTHER MARRYING MY EX MISSIS 1
MY HUSBANDS IMPRISONMENT .MY SONS LIED ABOUT HIM IN COURT 1
Me going out with my girlfriend.I wasn't expecting to go out with her,but she asked me.It's not your usual everyday thing-it's a bit strange 1
Money is going missing from work 1
My daughter and her partner splitting up and they didn't tell me because of all she had gone through 1
My ex husband has sold his house,given his son his car and moved in with someone-no one can believe it as he's such a control freak. 1
My grandson had a present of a mobile telephone and I knew that it would be stolen and it was stolen the next day 1
My life has changed because my hus band is no longer living with me after 46 years of marriage and I never expected this so my life has changed enormously and I feel alone, not lonely. 1
My other half's family ganging up on me and trying to get me not to see my daughter 1
My psychic abilities 1
New chapter in my life - going to make it happen 1
PROBLEMS WITH EXPARTNER AND EVERYONE ELSE HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS TO ME 1
Paranoid believes he is being watched 1
Phone calls calling me to particular places which on arrival did no exist 1
Problems at work: staffing problems that were being ignored. 1
Relatives interfering 1
SOMETIMES YOU READ ABOUT THINGS IN SPACE AND THINGS THAT COULD BE AND THE GROWING EVIL IN THIS WORLD MAKES ONE WONDER 1
Something strange in the house 1
The whole purpose of my life is for me to suffer 1
Things at work - one person picking on us and stopping overtime 1
Thought somebody in Company was doing things deliberately to harm it 1
To do with family, a lot of trouble between sister and brother. 1
WHEN DOWNSTAIRS FELT SOMEONE WAS UPSTAIRS BUT THERE WASNT 1
WHEN YOUNG C.14+ WITH PARENTS VISITED A PUB WHERE I BECAME V. FRIGHTENED AND WANTED TO LEAVE. LATER CONFIRMED THAT A MURDER HAD TAKEN PLACE WHERE I WAS !!! 1
We feel there has been quite a political closed shop which is stopping me building affordable houses in tthis village. 1
Wife having an affair 1
a close friend was running life as normal but is dying of cancer and did notn come to him for help this felt like a betrayal 1
a male paedophile harrassed my son 1
a series of event happen within a space of two weeks which seemed unbelivable in a short spce 1
about my friends they wdnt take me to the clubs 1
affairs 1
after coming off the booze ifelt i was losing my sanity 1
again,i couldnt tell you what or explain it 1
all different things;unable to explain 1
all my friends in general getting into differeny kinds of mischief generally worrying what strange things they are going 1
all of a sudden leaving a normal life then the wife leaves and you are treateed like a leper 1
all the checking on the doors and window and make sure liones are straight 1
all to do with my family, more to do with the twins, when 14 they were put in home for uncontrolled boys then in home till 18, still think that mum to blame, 6 yrs even now they have their own place, 1
always felt that people were talking about me 1
an attractive woman in the street started to follow me..plus i was on safari and these 6 numbers came to me but i could not all 6 of them.only 4 which won œ70 on the lottery 1
an incident where two way radios got intererence in the cloirsters of an abbey when the was no interference on a previous day 1
anti social behaviour from next door nieghbours 1
anxious about other people what exactly they where going to do 1
as if someon is ganging up behind you but they wont tell you no specific thing 1
atmosphere that comes.,like a full moon 1
basically i felt that i wasbeing followed, stalked 1
basically that the plot thing that you were talking about earlier 1
between me and my wife I thought that she was having an affair over the last 6 months 1
can't explain 1
cannot remember 1
cant describe 1
cant remember but know that i have had that feeling. 1
changes at work 1
changing attitudes - growing up 1
concerns about the business 1
confidential 1
conspiricy theories because ive been on my own for so long 1
cos I was supposed to be going out with him again but he was showing no interest in me and it was all planned to hurt me and my friends kept saying I was imagining it 1
crusefix moved on the wall for no reason 1
deamt that twin sister had something wrong with her baby while she was pregnant 1
deeply twisted circumstances reference to friends & lovers 1
did reflec mat college dicovered nthe holistics of it by taking on other peopl;es illness physically so i AM NOT DOING THE COURSE NOW 1
different things in family environment, why is this happening etc., things that shouldnt have happened, people who shouldnt have said that, things going missing 1
dont know 1
dont remember hard to put into words 1
dont understand mental illness 1
dreaming that something is going to happed to me for example somebody coming in to the house 1
end of relationship very difficult as ex partner in denial starting doubting myself 1
estranged husband set fire to the house when I was in it. 1
everything that was happening to may body, the operations, the chemo, what it was doing to me, the dpression, trying to cope, a dark hole I couldnt get out of, a terrible state 1
evil presence, thinking about decomposed bodies, imagining things coming out of cupboards to get me 1
ex husband left without contact or warning 1
family problem 1
feeling a presence in my flat,maybe my mum.dead 25 years 1
feeling of euphoria which puzzled me 1
feeling something bad was going to happen 1
felt an urge to jump out of the window (lives on the 9th floor of multi-storey!) 1
felt like i was cracking up. i was going to explode. 1
felt shut off from decisions by mother and brother 1
felt someone their when there wasnt 1
felt that i was going to get my kids taken off me 1
friends who were having an affair 1
girlfriend arriving home late 1
glass breakage car vandalism 1
had a choice to stay or go but there was something that was stopping me, Pexp/ Im more comfortable with a certain person, I feel safe and would't get hurt and would enjoy them being round me. 1
hard to expliain i cant say 1
hard to say 1
he was plotting to get the kids to stay with him- hes very devious 1
hearing voices 1
how I was .me not the bottle 1
how could management be so incompetant? ! 1
husband's behaviour 1
husbands change of behaviour 1
husbands death from cancer 1
i believe in angels and spirits other people might call it fate but this past month they have been giving me a sense of peace 1
i can sense when things are bnot right particularly with the family mainly with my daughter 1
i can think of mildly semi physic experiences, social behaviour of my friends, behavior of peiple in poliitics' 1
i cant describe it,its like something bwierd gouing on i dont know if its me,i definitely feel wierd at diferent phases of the moon 1
i could hear walking in the house and i could not move or get out of bed. it was if someone was shuffling on the stairs 1
i don't know 1
i dont know what iti s you know when someone telling you something you feel that a part o f a jigsaw isw missing and thenb when you pick up on it youre right , i know it sound s crazy but i think i g 1
i felt i had no control i just wasnt myself 1
i felt like pasranoid, 1
i felt sometimes i felt a bit paranoid and believed in a comspiracy to affect my well being 1
i found religion - some things were happening with rainbows i noticed them when i was down 1
i got some money stolen, we know who did it. I wanted to lash out but I didn/t. 1
i had a couple of anonymous phone calls, from work, but turned out not to be the case 1
i had a dream about my gran being badly ill and got a phone call next day that she had cancer 1
i have felt that someone else was in my house or bed at night, usually a member of the family 1
i have met other people who are not gnostics like me who also feel something is amiss . everything is wrong . its abstract it cant be put into words 1
i just felt i was not normal,and that life was not real anymore 1
i see apparition or ghost ;only at nightime 1
i thought millenium was strange but no one took much notice it was a real big deal but no one took much notice 1
i thought people were trying to run my life f 1
i was asleep and outside my body looking at it 1
i was being set up by my ex wife 1
i was broken into at home, and this was part of a peculiar sequence of events affecting neighbours as well as myself 1
i was having trouble with my exboyfirend,who used to beat me up.i felt he was stalking me,i went to the police about it 1
i was told my daughters man told that all my pain was in my head 1
i would ask the question why did what happen 2 years ago happen to us 1
informant would rather not say 1
internal work problem 1
interviewed by National Statistics 1
investigation into my abilities as a manager at work, 1
it just is in my head you hear whispers and wonder if people are talking about me 1
it was all associated with a family dispute - everything seemed to go pear shaped. 1
it was at work in a work situation, resentment at work about remuneration 1
it was in my place of work and i felt something was going to happen and it is gradually happening now - my workmates are envious 1
it was just circumstances, the way things evolved at work/ae 1
it was my dad died in oct andd when we went up there and we went out for a walk down to the river and looked out and then there was a huge fish which talked to me and it was very odd as if it was my 1
its a feeling its not anything solid intuition it was within a group of people i can not explain it any other way 1
its as though I can sence whats going to happen to me before it happened, Iseemed to think that things were inevertable aqnd I couldn't change things, before I had theorapy I wanted to die but now 1
its basically the person that I work for has built a night club and has employed other people/but where I work the money from there is subsidising the night club and theres a lot of back stabbing 1
its hard to explain it was a situation that i was in and i felt like i was talking about a film rhat was on telly and not your life 1
its like I gather a thought in my head -strong vibes-I have to go with that feeling - its been good for me - strong push from within 1
its this house..my dad died six moinths ago and since then we have had several disasters car caught fire electrical appliances have packed up a ceil 1
iwas learning how to use and apply some neurolinguistic programming 1
job pressures 1
just feeling a car was fowwowing me when it wasnt 1
just a gut feeking that something is not right 1
just my run of bad luck no only losing my husband but deals with the house keep falling through my sons are suffering with their health just a lot of bad luck 1
just obstructive behaviour 1
just one thing after another would sort myself out and then something else go wrong 1
just seemed that other people were talking about me,accusing me of things 1
just the split of my son from his girl-friend - just couldn't believe it - also we've had 3 sudden deaths 1
lies deciet and everything at the time. 1
life changed after father died and think there us a connection 1
lost mum in July 1999 and had strange feelings , couldn't explain how I felt - uncomfortable 1
members of family / general domineering attitude 1
mind games 1
mother in law put into home without my permission 1
moving out of family home 1
my 2 children from my 1st marriage told me something that had been going on i told someone else what it was and noone believed me at 1st but they know its true now 1
my boad moods make me very anti social 1
my daughter kept seeing a spirit at the bottome of her bed telling her something would happen to me 1
my ex wifes behaviour 1
my general life, the way life is, we dont have friends, we just stay in with our children, dont like going out, were not considered normal by the neighbours, we both have problems, it makes life feel 1
my hair was falling out in handfulls. 1
my husband was having an affair 1
my memory is inconsistent 1
my partner has another woman and a family;i was told a few months ago;other women now say silly things which get on my nerves ;i do not know these women but they give me messages about the situation 1
my sister husband was having an affair 1
my thoughts and thinking things wern't worth carrying on/life wasn't worth going on and other people wouldn't understand 1
neighbour taken plants from garden 1
no disclosure 1
not able to find things that wern't really lost 1
nothing seemed to be happening smoothly, everything seemed to be going against me. Not getting anywhere.. 1
nothing specific 1
nothing specific/just general things/ 1
our house kept having flashing lights as\a result of electrical & water accident other houses around did have the same problem 1
panuic attacks 1
particularily at work, people knowing things they dont really know. I feel I am being tested at work 1
partner of 13 years completely changing 1
people against me 1
people knew things that happened in my home and discovered that there was a camera in my flat going to another flat 1
people saying two different versionsn of same story/lying 1
people when they are disturbed can make things happen 1
peoples attitudes/their attitudes was changing .i just feel like a clown an idiot/if I tried to say something they would dismiss it 1
police wouldnt give me a crime number so I went to complain about that 1
predcognition, predestiny. its hard to classify 1
probably about my girlfriend and her agrophobia 1
problems at work 1
problems with family\a grandchild proved not to be a grandchild after court case\no longer have contact with him 1
psychological feelings about in laws following the marriage of my daughter 1
read book on Quantum physics-implications very confiusing 1
really aboutmy daughter she told a pack of lies about my brother then told stories about the rest of family which ere untrue said i was wicked ketp grandkids away for 7 years 1
relating to mgmt/staffing decisions at work 1
relationship problems 1
relationship with wife, now separated; unlikely to be reconciled 1
respondents reactions to things 1
same person was encroaching my life in a mental rather than phisical way 1
saw a ghost - my feelings felt strange 1
see note 2
seeing ghosts everywhere 1
seemed that outside force was telling me I was doing it wrong 1
sensing that someone in family is in trouble, poor health before the knew 1
somebody trying to get me into truob;le at work by altering what i have done 1
somebody very close to me had it in for me. I could not get to the bottom of it , and still caant . it is one of two or three people. 1
someone had the same thoughts as myself without discussion it was wierd 1
someone slept with my boyfriend before,since 4yrs old 1
someone talking behind my back 1
something at work had gone on and everbody was talking about me but my mam and everyone just said i was stupid but they thought i was just imagining it 1
something evil was trying to frighten me and only i was experiencing it 1
something felt was happening that no one else would believe. 1
something i dont want to go into it 1
sort of things like phone lines disappear people sending letters to the wrong address sop I worry if somebody else has my wrong mail 1
spirit messages 1
spookies go ato chuarch of athe spirits 1
starange dareams i can remember in the morning/ i dream my teeth are bareaking up and then i find later, thet someone i know have died, i do find athat strange 1
strange dreams 1
strange sensation of increasing trauma 1
tapping when noone there,visited by dead granfather 1
tarrot card reading told me things that shouldnt have been known 1
the child abuse, just people saying they wouldnt believe that ex wife could do it 1
the claim for my wrist the solicitors missed the deadline date for court so my claim is reduced to almost nothing although they had admitted liability 1
the same again like, it was all to do with my son 1
there's been times where I felt people around me were staring at me in different ways that they've never done, talking about me in ways that they've never done and acting differently towards me 1
things at work peoples attitude 1
things at work/a colleague going out of his way to help me which was unusual.there was a reason for it ,irealised later 1
things not workin g when they should have - there was no possible reason why they shouldnt work 1
thinking that her deceased husband was around her 1
this bloke lived next door got very friendly with me came to stay with me and asking me to ask my mum for money - he used to give me lots of food and presentsd 1
thought a freinds fiancee was seeing someone else through i was drinking 1
thought people talking about me when I was out 1
thought that my friend and my ex boyfriend were carrying on behind my back 1
too difficult to explain 1
train crashing 1
underhand activities and deliberate sabotage at work 1
until the internet and i could check that it was authentic,and the dss spy did not come after all. 1
various things, I d/k. I felt it was so wierd that no-one would really believe me 1
vivid imagination 1
way husband was acting 1
way people organise the health service 1
weird things happening.things going missing from home and work and nobody hAD BEEN IN THE HOUSE 1
well my wife is into homeopathy rflexology results make you wonder putting hands on people is strange and she says she can do distance healing as an engineer I find this strange 1
whatever i try to to do i get no success and the problems are getting worse 1
when in holiday in minorca, it was if someone was trying to kidnap my grandson [he was with me] 1
when my <name> went everyone thought I'd fall apart but I didn't, p/that I wasn't falling apart when everyone thought I would,also I was having a few probs w my husband at that time 1
when people were trying to get me into care homes and take my possesions and money 1
when there was a lt of shooting around 1
when things have been really bad although it might be something small there has been an almost divine interventionm that has made a difference 1
where to start my mum talks riddles my brother doesnt talk toi me my ex partner plays mind games 1
wondering where iwas going in life 1
work conflict and difficulties with dealing with thegropup 1
work felt like i wasnt being told stuff 1
work related 1
work related waythings have turned out 1
work-related/unbelievable decision making 1
would not say 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationPsychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000