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Old Dec 22, 2016, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by scar12346 View Post
I am on 10mg of Serotax, and ever since I got on it my episodes have calmed down, my depression is low and my self-harm tendencies are almost not there. I was never allowed to read about the medications I am taking, because of well paranoia, so all I knew about Serotax was that it's for depression. So why is it working for psychosis? (I am diagnosed with manic-depression with psychotic symtoms)
basically if you're bipolar and they get your mania and depression under control you won't have psychosis anymore because the psychosis is due to the mood symptoms. Staying on top of mood changes though is difficult so usually you'd get an antipsychotic, mood stabilizer etc.
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