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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
Shelly:
To be psychotic means to be considered Skitzophrenic, Skitzoaffective, or Bipolar which calls for the use of an AP. The brain's MI is genetically physical in nature (correct me if I'm wrong) so drugs would be the necessary route of treatment.
But like as stated in my case- AP's do not work because I'm not psychotic as experimented upon. All they do is help calm me down if hypomania kicks in hard- which it hasn't since I'm being treated for bipolar symptoms. I'm suppose to take Respiradal 1mg, PRN. This is as most of type and dose that I can comfortably handle.
Respiradal: 1 mg is fine, but any more I pass out and have headaches, and sleep forever.
Seroquel: throbbing headache to neck tightening up the back of head and over the top, I'll sleep 22 out of 24 hours for days.
Geodon: closely resembles Respiradal, but more agitating.
Intuniv: instant anxiety, 4 hours of sleep a night, lots of energy, vivid night terrors, I'll wake up in a cold sweat.
I'm afraid of taking any other versions of AP.  |
just a bit of info... here in the USA you do not have to have schizophrenia, schizo affective disorder or bipolar to be psychotic....
here the term psychotic means anyone that is having hallucinations, or delusional beliefs, or delusional thoughts due to physical mental, medications or any other normal \ mental \ physical reasons.
a common situation here where I am located is drug induced psychosis where people will be brought in to the ER or crisis center because they were using drugs and it caused them to have hallucinations, and delusions.
another common situation here where I live is having delusions, hallucinations because of having cancer and cancer treatment.
another non mental disordered induced psychosis is MS (multiple Sclerosis) MS is a degenerative nerve disease where the body attacks the outer lining of nerves. this can cause a person to have any number of problems like numbness, tingling, blurred vision and in a rare few psychosis (hallucinations and delusions)
another non mental disordered and commonly experienced psychosis (having hallucinations and delusions) is undergoing anesthesia for surgery. many people have hallucinations and delusions as part of this process.
my point is to let you know here in the USA psychosis is no longer thought of as ...just ....being schizophrenia type mental disorders and bipolar disorder. there are many reasons why a person may have psychosis (hallucinations, delusions)
in the category of psychotic disorders in the USA there is now three new diagnostic labels that covers having psychosis with out having schizophrenia type mental disorders....
Brief Psychotic disorder
Substances \ Medication induced psychotic disorder
Psychotic Disorder due to another medical condition