alcohol-induced psychotic disorder with delusions and hallucinations

Recently with this batch of mania, I have begun to have the auditory hallucinations too, as well as visual. I also am having some problems with disorganized thoughts and speech and delusions. Thank you...

Is it possible for hallucinations/psychotic experiences to be like a horror film playing in your mind that you can't control? For example, yesterday, I had this mental "movie" of the grim reaper standing behind me with a wire, about to strangle me or slit my throat. Deep down I knew it wasn't real but it felt real, like a dream while I was awake, as if I could somehow sense that he was behind me ready to do something. I was totally afraid of what was going to happen.

Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a bipolar disorder or a depressive disorder with psychotic features, or another psychotic disorder and is not attributable to the physiological effects of another medical condition.

It could also take some time to find the medication which is right for her because not every medication works the same and as effectively for every single person but chances are that one of them will work for her eventually. It could be bipolar disorder with psychotic features like ILADVOCATE said or some psychotic disorder since 120 conditions can have psychosis as a symptom.

I know a few people who have bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Psychosis is very hard to track. I discovered recently for example I actually gradually get worse instead of having a sudden onset of a psychotic break. It wasn't until I saw a monster and heard a helicopter fly over head and my first reaction was panic and to run for cover when I've never even been in the military or had to run from them at all that signaled me to maybe go see my doctor.

They do not know what is real and what is not. They often suffer visual and auditory hallucinations and delusions, either of grandeur or paranoia. Psychosis can be dangerous, not only to the person experiencing it, but to those around them. They are completely different things. A panic attack is a form of anxiety, whereas a psychotic break is an acute psychotic episode, completely unrelated to anxiety.

These features include delusions (false ideas about what is taking place or who one is) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things which aren't there). As you can see those suffering from Bipolar I are more likely to suffer a psychotic episode than someone diagnosised with Bipolar II disorder. This does not mean that all Bipolar I patients have psychotic episodes and that a Bipolar II personality cannot have a psychcotic episode.

I did post the same question in the schizophrenia forum and got a reply there that indicated that this does sound psychotic, probably with paranoid delusions. It at least helps me figure out what terms to search on to get the best information for how to help him. It was hardest not even knowing quite how to look for more information about what is happening to him and how best to get him to agree to being helped.

That can also occur in people with bipolar with psychotic features. Discuss this with your psychiatrist and ask if psychosis is part of your diagnosis.

While some people with bipolar disorder will experience a disconect from reality (hallucinations, delusions, paranoia) it's different from schizophrenia. Schizophrenics will often have the same disconects, but there is more to the disorder (word salad, catatonia, social isolation, social dysfunction, and impairments in the way the person thinks and speaks).

re evidently struggling with a lot of psychotic symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), dissociative symptoms (depersonalization and derealization) and anxiety issues on top of your mood problems. You are also reporting some things characteristic of hypomania/mania which, if it IS hypomania/mania would definitively rule out depression. I think you definitely need to see a psychiatrist.

I have had psychotic breaks with the depression cycle of my bipolar disorder. However, I do know people with major depression and situational depression who had episodes of visual hallucination. The hallucinations were short lived as well as their depression, meaning it only lasted for a year or 2. They didn't get hospitalized, because they were still able to function and their hallucinations did not affect their functioning so much.

I have one friend who used to be a therapist and another friend who is studying psychology in college. I described my past symptoms to them (hallucinations, delusions, insomnia, etc. starting when I was 13 and I recovered from these symptoms two years later...). They both told me that I probably have a sex hormone imbalance. So, I looked this up on the internet and found out that low estrogen levels can trigger psychosis in people who are predisposed to schizophrenia.

t mix pills with alcohol and illegal drugs her hallucinations visual are kinda rare most hear voices like me my voices have conversation with each other hope this helps :)

I don't think you truly "recover" from BP - you become stable and that's a sliding slope that is helped with meds and therapy. It's an incurable disorder and yes, we are disabled, but I don't think we can really recover (if you are meaning cure), but we can, like you said, learn to live with it. Tres1965 - I am sorry for your issues you are dealing with. Cut your Mom a little slack maybe??? What did she do?

Some sufferers of bipolar disorder may also suffer some psychotic features such as hallucinations or delusions that can be either mood-congruent or non-mood-congruent. However it is a lot more common for sufferers of bipolar disorder to have a delusional belief system rather than hallucinations.

disordered thinking (reflected in a disturbance in the logical and coherent structure and form of speech), delusions (fixed beliefs that are odd or highly unusual) and hallucinations (hearing sounds and seeing things that don't exist for others). Usually a person with schizophrenia has trouble distinguishing what is real from what is in his head.

The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue. People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.

I know because that was me for five years I was diagnosed with it as a form of bi-polar disorder. I have been off all anti-psychotic meds now since 1997 and take nothing but something for insomnia and am sober as well. But besides multiple medications related to bipolar disease I was on Thorazine for the hallucinations from 1991 through 1996. It is not BOTH. Schizophrenia doesn't just appear one day. here is some information: https://www.mind.org.

No schizoaffective is not the only illness Im diagnosed with. I got fed up with medication and asked my psychiatrist if I could try ECT(electroconvulsive therapy) and he said no just try this new medication. He gave me latuda. First week on it I had a psychotic breakdown. I said **** it and stopped taking all my medications. I feel much better now.

If a person has psychotic thoughts or delusions all the time then they would be diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder (schizophrenia with a mood disorder) as I have but if these thoughts only occur during moodswings then it would be bipolar with psychotic features. This much I learned from a researcher in mood disorders. However, only a psychiatrist could diagnose you. If you are seeing a psychiatrist and haven't talked about these issues you should.

Combining marijuana with antidepressants can cause confusion and occasionally hallucinations or delusions. Combining alcohol with antidepressants can greatly increase the effects of alcohol, which can include suppressing respiration and death.

All good comments and advice. And I agree. Apparently psychosis is present in 90 ish % of full manic episodes, and if the illness is Schizoaffective Disorder, can be ongoing regardless of mood. My son has constant psychosis but has it well under control with Clozopine. None of the other AP's worked for him. He's also on 1200 mg Lithium. Sorry to say but yes, get thee to a doc- to check out other physical possibilities for these symptoms, and to your pdoc.

I myself have recovered from schizoaffective disorder with the experimental antipsychotic glycine in Phase II FDA study a new form of antipsychotic called a glutamate antagonist that will promote a fuller recovery and not cause tardive dyskinesia (which I have in advanced forms) and diabetes. My case study will be published in a psychiatric journal. For the official study google "Dr. Javitt, glycine".

Psychosis is the term for a mental disorder that causes a person to lose touch with reality and that may cause them to have hallucinations and delusions. Mental disorders that are in the psychosis category include bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Anxiety and common clinical depression are both in the neurosis category, meaning they are stress- and nerve-related and not caused by a severe underlying mental disorder.

ve been told that (besides now having a personality disorder) I have atypical psychosis and thus my diagnosis has been changed to borderline personality disorder and psychotic disorder NOS. I've done some research and I read that some of my hallucinations, like colours changing or objects moving, are not typical visual hallucinations and are more indicative of a neurological condition, same with the voices that I hear and can't make out what they're saying.

Alcohol-induced psychotic disorder with delusions and hallucinations

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