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Can a mixed episode present with psychosis?
More on the depression scale of things? I'm not quite sure what the psychosis symptoms would be, but I feel totally out of it...
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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<H1 class=Heading1a itxtvisited="1">Psychotic Depression Symptoms</H1>By Hunter Darden, eHow Contributor I want to do this! What's This? Approximately 25 percent of depressed hospitalized people suffer from psychotic depression. Psychotic depression is believed to be caused by a thyroid gland that is functioning abnormally or an overproduction of cortisol hormone during especially stressful times of life. It can also be hereditary. Psychotic depression encompasses feelings of severe depression. This includes aspects of psychosis which could manifest into hallucinations, delusions and irrational behavior. Some feel that something is wrong with their outward appearance or physical body. They may display unreasonable anger. Or they may twist their lives around by spending their time in bed sleeping during the day and awake through the night. They may be neglectful about changing their clothes or bathing and paying attention to their appearance.
Read more: Psychotic Depression Symptoms | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_5139567_ps...#ixzz13TNSEaXz 296.1 Manic-depressive psychosis, depressed type An affective psychosis in which there is a widespread depressed mood of gloom and wretchedness with some degree of anxiety. There is often reduced activity but there may be restlessness and agitation. There is a marked tendency to recurrence; in a few cases this may be at regular intervals. Depressive psychosis Manic-depressive psychosis or reaction Endogenous depression Monopolar depression Involutional melancholia Psychotic depression Excludes: circular type, if previous attack was of manic type (296.3) depression NOS (311) _________________________________________________ Manic Depressive Psychosis Depressive Psychosis takes three forms:
Although a topic of debate so far, it is assumed that psychotic depression may be caused due to abnormal functioning of thyroid or excessive production of cortical hormone during the periods of stress. It's also believed that psychotic depression can be hereditary. Psychotic Depression Symptoms In addition to severely depressed mood and frequent mood swings, irrational behaviors like hallucination and delusion are observed in an individual suffering from this form of depression. The individual can hear voices and see things which don't actually exist, the former being quite common phenomena. Some common delusions may include the individual's belief that something is wrong with his physical appearance or his body, which in fact is not true. A person suffering from psychotic depression may show signs of anxiety and mental distress. Other symptoms of this disease include frequent frightening dreams, chronic sleeplessness, physical immobility and psychosis. The people suffering from this disease don't usually open up, hence it's difficult to diagnose it. The other thing, which hampers the proper diagnosis of psychotic depression is the fact that its symptoms are more or less similar to the symptoms noticed in other forms of neuropathy like schizophrenia.
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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A whole lot of waffle - sorry about the layout, but I really cannot do much more than copy and paste..
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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Uhm, a lot of the symtoms like the restlessness and so on are the same that you can get in some versions of a mixed episone, yes, and the anxiety can present as paranoia if it starts getting extreme, nocturnal cycle, delusions and halucinations, yep, youcan get all of that with a mixed episode as well, why do you ask?
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YES YES YES unmedicated YES.... see ME um yeah that is what was happening to me during my last unmedicated lapse. I was Manic Manic Manic Mixed Mixed depresessssssssssssssssssssed Mixed Mixed delusions and halucinations delusions and halucinations delusions Mixed and halucinations Mixed delusions and halucinations Mixed delusions and halucinations MANIC HUGE ISSUES!!!! Get the picture. depressed. ho hum.
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I've never been manic - but during this mixed episode I just feel so out of it. Like I'm alien in my body. I stare into space and cannot focus on things. I was looking at a carpet and it almost looked like it was moving.
I have been so irritable. And lonely. And dwelling on my emotions WAY too much
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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Ai! Dear, hang in there. It may not psychosis yet. May never get there, but it might also be that your mood stabiliser is trying to keep the mood aspects of your depression out of the picture, so you are getting the other depressive symtpoms instead. The lithium was doing that to me for a while. Be careful, and keep in touch, Suga. Fie, Yuck, poor you! HUGGGGGGGGSSSSS
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I'll freak if I have real hallucinations and hear voices...
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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Quote:
Is it like that? Because (for me at least), those things can be disconcerting, yet I don't feel "concerned" about them.... just let them ride, so to speak. Don't know if this has been any help or just blathering(!), but if it can be any help, or can help you from freaking out, then there it is. |
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I know those things are not REAL, but it still freaks me out, lol
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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Ahhhhh, then freak ye not!
![]() (Hehe, I know it's a "reasonable hour" there, but here.... let's just say I really *should get to bed as I won't know for a few hours if I'm working in the a.m. or not... guess I'll regret it then, lol. Soon though, soon. Still! Good to be yapping in real time, ya!) |
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you can get into psychosis by dwelling too much on one thing for too long... well at least I can that is how it starts to happen for me the delusions and hallucinations. Best to think about lots of things read, a book watch tv, go for a walk. DO NOT BE ALONE WITH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS. My Dr. said that is how mood disorders become mixed into the thought realm of pychosis and that is what always happens to me. Not fun not fun at all. Has taken me 6 weeks to get out of it this time and I was there for 5-6 months... strange world.
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I also get the nail holes that run around on the walls, sometimes. Annoying. It was very bad when i was on Serzone. It was on that drug that the people in my peripheral vision moved into my central and started talking to me. Then I decided that this was a violation of my personal space, if you catch my drift. Even if you know it's not real, it's darned distracting. What annyed me no end was that my pdoc didn't take me seriously at the time. Really a heads up that I needed a new pdoc.
Run away brains are no fun. Suga, it is freaky and not to be played with. Yes, I think all of us who have these symptoms and can realize that they aren't real can put up with a certain degree of oddness, but there comes a point where they are intolerable, and that point is different for everyone of us. Huggs dear. It's a strange old world. |
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it's a strange old brain - that's all
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller" Current dx: Bipolar Disorder Unspecified Current Meds: Epitec (Lamotrigine) 300mg, Solian 50mg, Seroquel 25mg PRN, Metformin 500mg, Klonopin prn |
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I get mild paranoia with my mixed episodes, but i recognize it and talk myself out of it. It's exhausting, but we all know mixed states are that.
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So how is the old brain right now, dear?
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no psychosis-i'm just all over the place. My mind is too busy for its own good.
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Well, hope that busy brains keep the devil at bay, to paraphrase an old saying. Can you get any rest?
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i know i need to go to sleep. @ a friend's place, and may just need to have a chat and work thro my head. I'll not allow those devils near me
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Good job! Keep thumbing you nose at them. So far so good, Suga! hang in there. HUGGGGS
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