psychotic break ptsd

my 22 year old son just experienced a psychotic break. I need to understand how he was feeling. Is there anyone who has personally experienced this, and would be willing to describe what you felt? I am desperate to understand what he is going through.

My pdoc yesterday told me it's possible to have a psychotic break from too severe anxiety. This scares me bad, what is that? Does that mean I'll go crazy and hurt someone? Myself? Has anyone ever had one of these? Also is there anyone here that has had several months of severe anxiety, then slowly goes back to several months of calm? I'm afraid this feeling will last forever. Just to make sure I'm experiencing this "anxiety" what does it feel like to u all?

I have been diagnosed with dissociative disorder and ptsd before i had a major psychotic episode where i felt everything was repeating itself war, protests from the native people blocking major highways, noise of airplanes, it was canada day. I am a survivor of a war, my city was under siege for two months i lost friends at 14, I've seen a lot of sadness in my younger years but i don't understand why this hit me at 41. I am scared to be in that mental state again.

SZ PTSD anxiety panic psychotic mood disorders and addictions; alcohol cocaine sodas sweets sex and nicotine. I'm sorry about your trauma was publicized my trauma ended up on the world and national news.i will not talk about k.

has recenlty been traumatized, then had a complete meltdown which the docs called a Psychotic Break? They are hospitalized for being a danger to themselves & others. I don't have much more info than that. What does this mean? Is it temporary? How long can it last & does anyone know how long you can be held by law? Or is that a state by state issue? Thanks for your help.

The panic attacks can also act as a catalyst to trigger a psychotic break in my schizophrenia and the schizophrenia can feed off of the traumatic events and trigger the PTSD. It's a catch 22 situation really. I've heard both can cause psychotic symptoms which I'm not too sure when which is causing my psychotic symptoms if that is true. I know at least I experienced psychotic symptoms before I developed PTSD or even went through the traumas which lead to PTSD.

i have PTSD from combat and i take zoloft for this and i suffer from flashbacks and nightmares i also have schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia i take geodon and congentin for this.

I had a school counselor who would try to diagnose me with everything (maybe you have bpd, maybe you have OCD, maybe you have ADHD) and then when I told her the diagnosis I had from my doctor (PTSD, psychosis) then she would try to dismiss it and re-diagnose me. She would also tell other students my very specific problems and then get angry / yell at me when I told her I don't want medication. This has stopped a year ago, but I found out she does the exact same thing to other students.

what you said here is that some of what you described is symptoms of PTSD remembering flashbacks I become psychotic someone special to me had this happen to them around the same age she is violent destructive and hypersexual.

t get a hold of myself. I do suffer from severe depression PTSD severe anxiety disorder with psychotic features. Is it all in my head or could something be wrong?

t until I had a psychotic break that I was diagnosed. It seems that after I was diagnosed (after my break) that I haven't gotten back to the "pre-break" feeling. (I stay in the depressed more than the mania) I know part of that is because of medications and we don't always want/need to get back to the "pre-break" feelings, but I am wondering... Does a psychotic break change our disorder to a permanently detiorated state? Does it just get worse on it's own?

I have been diagnosed with PTSD and Schizophrenia - I have been having flashbacks of my childhood since I was about 30 years old my therapist wants me on medication so she can have me stable when we have our sessions. Why do I need to remember what happened? Is recovering all these suppressed memories really going to help me heal. I feel the damage has been done.

My Psych. has me on all three, plus Klonopin, am not getting anybetter and refuse to take anti-psychotic meds.

The doctor said she has PTSD but it's not really psychotic i know she has something there and she was sexually abused from 6-12 years old she told the police when she was 13 so...That had a huge inpact.

i have PTSD too, from combat in panama i take an anti-depressant(zoloft) and an anti-psychotic(respiridone){for schizophrenia} and cogentin(for tardive dyskinesia) i go to group therapy and attend counseling for all of this; see if you can talk to a therapist or a doctor or a psychiatrist ok :)

put me on Wellbutrin 75mg first which was THE WINNING NUMBER TWICE A DAY. But then he switched me to 300mg ER within a 9 day period so after 9 days I was psychotic got worse the entire situation that is and I was attacked by one truck...Anyhow I just came out after going in again EVERYONE SAID I LEFT TOO SOON..AT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IN NYC UPSTATE..

ve done on my own).....there is no med for PTSD. The meds they hand out for PTSD are only for associated symptoms. These meds your son has been put on are some heavy-duty stuff...not usually given to kids. I'd really be weary and get a 2nd opinion.

I'm a teenage female diagnosed with bipolar disorder, depression with psychotic symptoms, and PTSD. Today at school I was walking to another class, then I have a gap in my memory except for some vague images of a bathroom, and then I found myself walking around outside the school. I had my coat & bags like I was ready to leave, but it wasn't the end of the day. I got upset since I had no idea how I had gotten there or what was going on.

So... I guess here goes. My first memory (which is very very vague, mind you) is having needles stuck all over me at a month old to give me a complete blood transfusion due to a bad reaction to the MMR triple vaccine. I clinically died at only a month old and was so for a good five minutes, which is what brought about this situation. I was told I never was the same since that. I'd never really been happy or sad truly until later in life.

For a person with borderline personality disorder, however, part of the cause of it is a traumatic childhood experience. And for ptsd, a person would not have acquired it otherwise but the traumatic experiences caused brain changes. And people would say psychiatry isn't up on the exact chemical mechanisms of the brain but the experimental treatment for schizoaffective I am on targets the receptors in an exact manner and the genetic studies of schizophrenia proved this.

I found out that he also tried to murder his ex-wife when i finally got away from him. By the time i had recovered from PTSD, I reported his abuse to the police but it was too late for him to be arrested. It was also very hurtful that one or two mutual friends Only a year or so later, he is happily married to a lovely lady. I contacted her on facebook, assuming he would be abusive to her too. Only apparently he is lovely and kind and gentle to her. How can this be?

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