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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
I'm not surprised by your experiences. Psychiatrists think they know best but in reality they don't really know a thing.
All the medications I was on during adolescence gave me psychiatric symptoms such as memory loss, suicidal thoughts and urges, somnolence and pseudo-seizures or twitching caused by low blood pressure. The perpetual state of somnolence I was in gave me hypnagogic hallucinations. All these symptoms were misinterpreted as signs of dissociation or micropsychosis related to BPD. I realized all this after I stopped the medication in 1998 and told psychiatry to F off. It was family and my desperation that got me to see the reality of my situation.
The medication induced psychotic symptoms were very different from the psychosis I experienced five years later. The doctors were too blind and stupid in 1998 to realize the drugs were causing symptoms and worsening my situation.
Flee if it doesn't feel right. Run for your life!!!!!!!!
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You're just describing what I'm going through to a tee! I went to these doctors a year and a half ago for help with some bad anxiety and slight social paranoia (low self esteem). A year and a half later of a mixture of meds I have dealt with suicidal thoughts and attempts, hallucinations (both auditory, hypnagogic and visual, severe paranoia and depression. Most of my symptoms and most of my 'episodes' have been psychiatric drug induced.
The only reason why I still see them is to get access to a psychologist. My problems have always been psychological, they just made me believe psychiatry could help me. I had a great productive life before I met them, I was working part time and in college doing something I loved, full time. Now I have nothing, I'm just lucky my fiancee is still here with me.