No one else in the room could see what you were dealing with, so of course they're not going to get it. Let that go.

I don't know what it was either, whether the sensory or emotional inputs that were screwed up, or whether your processes weren't working they way they usually do or whatever--I do know that the trick is to figure out what is malfunctioning and develop alternate strategies.

If you are hearing voices that aren't there, figure out how to recognize the ones that are there and deal with them exclusively. If you're swamped with paranoiac fears, figure out how to sort them from the regular fears...etc.

Maybe some meds will help, and maybe it will pass, but till then,identifying the bad stuff and developing compensatory strategies is the way to go. I know, it's easy to say, but not so easy to do, but so much of life is like that. With effort and persistence, you can make it work, maybe not like before, but in a way you can live with.

There are way more of us out here keeping it together that way than you can possibly imagine...and you don't realize it, because most of the time, we are making it work.