[Jim62]

Hi everyone,

I have a question that i cannot find addressed anywhere.

Does anyone know if psychosis can cause depression? I am an ultra ultra rapid cycler. What i think is happening is i become psychotic. My thinking becomes convoluted. I get caught up in circular logic. The relationship between cause and effect is lost. I ruminate. All this bad thinking causes me to focus on bad things in my past. Finally, these negative thoughts bring me down and cause depression.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Thanks for any help you can give me

[BipolaRNurse]

This is one of those chicken-or-the-egg questions that I really don't know the answer to, but I'll give it a shot even though for me, psychosis only happens during a manic episode.

I really think the depression causes the psychosis, but can't say that it doesn't work the other way. Psychosis can be frightening, which causes anxiety and stress, and those feelings in turn can cause depression. That's the only thing that makes sense to me, anyway. I hope some other folks can weigh in here because you pose an interesting question, and others whose experiences parallel yours more closely can tell you better than I can.

I don't have a certain answer, but what you've described, Jim62, sounds familiar to me. Can you give a specific thought/situation that troubles you?

[Talanic]

I think that it can. At times I've been in a normal mood and started hearing voices and other treats of psychosis. That in turn freaked me out and triggered depression (and or the same pattern you're talking about). So I think it works both ways.

[Victoria'smom]

Psychosis triggers both fear and remorse . I feel fear and remorse can trigger depression.

[Jim62]

Hi everyone.

Thank you to everyone for their replies.

I saw the psychiatrist today. He said that psychosis CAN cause depression.

Thanks again

Jim

[usehername]

Originally Posted by Talanic

I think that it can. At times I've been in a normal mood and started hearing voices and other treats of psychosis. That in turn freaked me out and triggered depression (and or the same pattern you're talking about). So I think it works both ways.

I've had this happen before too, but I usually only have psychosis type symptoms during a mania, and then get depressed afterward.