Psychotic illness
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Not every breakdown is psychotic. I had a complete mental breakdown about 16 years ago or so which lead to 3 years of crushing depression - my illness course leaves me prone to this type of breakdown.
However not being on meds? Dont know - i went nearly 15 years not on meds and i thought i was fine until I wasnt and went psychotic manic, so you might be fine for a long time as well.
And I wasnt fine, I was hypomanic and looking back had at least 3 mini breakdowns and burnouts in that time.
And if you have suicidal urges you need to see a psychiatrist right away. Depression with psychotic features is when a person has psychotic thoughts only during mood fluctuations. With schizoaffective disorder psychotic thoughts or auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) can occur at any time. But as to how to look at it I'd say look at it as I do, I am a person with a psychiatric disability and I need treatment as part of my recovery.
T have a significant mental illness (specifically, a psychotic illness) is put on those kinds of medications, the outcome can be that the person ends up presenting with symptoms of a psychotic illness.
I would recommend getting this sorted out ASAP, and I would ask for an inpatient hospitalization to do so, if possible.
Good luck, please update the thread when you can!
, or will be diagnosed with schizophrenia, or other psychotic illness. Sometimes, certain medications can cause psychotic symptoms, or even effects of certain diseases (when a diabetic's sugar gets VERY high or very low, this can happen).
What I am saying is this is definitely something she needs evaluated for. Understandably, she is going to be resistant and scared when you talk to her about this.
When a person is psychotic they can lack judgment. One of the purposes of treatment is to have them get past that point.
For many years I have suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations, night terrors, and sleep paralysis and have even acted out nightmares while sleep walking (issuing a knife to carve into my chest). I have been on many mental illness meds but Depakote does seem to help the best even those it only seems to help to a minimum.
Hello,
In November of 2009, my wife slipped into a severe psychosis, approximately 2 months after a thyroidectomy. She had no signs of mental illness before the thyroidectomy. After two weeks of taking Zyprexa, she came out of the psychosis, and has had no psychotic symptoms since. Her thyroid level is now normal, and due to weight gain, and the desire of not wanting to take medication that potentially is not needed, we have decided to stop taking Zyprexa.
Hello,
In November of 2009, my wife slipped into a severe psychosis, approximately 2 months after a thyroidectomy. She had no signs of mental illness before the thyroidectomy. After two weeks of taking Zyprexa, she came out of the psychosis, and has had no psychotic symptoms since. Her thyroid level is now normal, and due to weight gain, and the desire of not wanting to take medication that potentially is not needed, we have decided to stop taking Zyprexa.
sometimes people have psychotic episodes and then never have them again, it sounds like your pdoc thinks that you have a long term illness, the only other illness I can think of that would match your symptoms is schizophrenia, but I am not a doctor. Were you depressive at the time of this episode? I would track your illness on here, any symptoms, time of day etc.
Recently I was asked to help a young man who had been taking Risperdal for a psychotic illness and who noticed that while taking this his penis and testicles seemed to shrink. There is very little information in the literature about this. We know that Risperdal causes dopamine receptor blockade. Dopamine in turn keeps prolactin levels in check. Therefore Risperdal allows for a raise in prolactin levels and this may cause genital shrinkage.
My bipolar husband has become extremely controlling. I read others' posts and it's like he's being described to a T, so I guess I'm not alone.
In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process). As a pathology it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information or certain effects of perception which would more properly be termed an apperception or illusion.
I feel soooooooo awful, right now. I'm bawling my head off.
I got a letter from my insurance company, wanting more info on how I'm doing with my 'somatization disorder'.
My first really hard time with my imaginary illness began in march '05. I got steadily weaker, more tired, more stupid and more sensory ****, over a long period of time. It took a year to get to my lowest level. Being only able to walk a block with a cane. Constant pain and tiredness.
This kind of follows from the treatment question I asked earlier.
With treatment, I guess the ideal situation is to have a decent support team around you. I live with my family but I don't know how to even mention this to them.
When I was younger, I discovered they don't really believe in mental illness so I'm currently siding on not telling them anything.
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