Do anti depressants worsen your psychosis?
Yes for me they make me delusional and hallucinate…but that’s not the case with everybody.
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for real? I just upped mine and I’ve got some nasty intrusive thoughts. Scatterbrained â– â– â– â–
It’s typically the case with schizoaffective bi polar type people…Or bi polar people with bad psychosis. Ask @Wave. He’s very informative on the subject
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Thanks, thats what Im trying to figure out, weather i have schizoaffective or bipolar disorder. I need these AD’s but they make my thoughts go crazy
that’s what happened when I was on celexa and lexapro
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what exactly was it like if you don’t mind me asking?
…and what do they have you diagnosed as? did you find one that worked?
I used to abuse my antidepressant because it made me trip balls. One Wellbutrin caused me to think everyone was out to get me, notice coincidences, slight euphoria. 2 wellbutrins would make me feel like I took one tab of acid and three would just take me to another planet. Walks breathing, spiders crawling all over me, voices, etc. that script was gone pretty quick. I thought it was giving me “insight” but it was just making me sicker. Then he switched me to risperdal when he saw my reaction to the Wellbutrin and that made me more psychotic, I was so far gone. Wasn’t until I went into the hospital and put on 3 antipsychotics and the occasional Thorazine shot in my ass that I became somewhat stable. Exactly how a man should live at 19-20 years old. 
since the drugs are closely linked they had similar effects but the celexa was worse. I was on risperidone too and they both together caused me to become extremely delusional and paranoid. I tasted bug spray in everything I ate and drank. I remember thinking that I was sure some things that happened on tv shows were real. I had akathisia too.
i’m currently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder depressive type and amitriptyline works pretty good but according to my doctor its a different kind of anti depressant.
Thanks. I have had similar experiences with thinking everything was poisoned. I guess I must have schizoaffective too. I don’t think bipolar people get those types of delusions but I could be wrong. Anyway, glad you found one that works, I’ve gotta tough this out till Wednesday when I get to report to my doctor all the fun I’ve been having this weekend.
It sucks, I need these antidepressants for OCD and anxiety, but they come with a price. Everything has a price.
Yea I’m sorry to hear that you got this too. It’s not fair man. I’ve had psychosis on and off for 15 years. It ruined my life, ran off all my friends, destroyed my hopes at a career, made me a burden on my family.
And I don’t even have the full blown version. It’s really sad but I have to remind myself that I’m lucky to be alive and there could be worse things in life.
None of us deserved this â– â– â– â– . Life used to be so simple
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Risperdals a hell of a drug. A friend of mine was on it and he coined the phrase. “The super limp-dic@ libido inhibitor medicine”. That stuff makes you fat and dickless. All the medications suck actually. I’m sitting here looking at Facebook, all of my old friends have kids, some have hot wives, I could have a hot girl right next to me and I wouldn’t even care I’m so stoned on this ■■■■right now. Chicks will date crazy dudes too if they find you attractive, it’s amazing that some of them don’t care. I used to get laid when I was psychotic back in my twenties, but that was way before it affected my self esteem. Now I’m 39 sitting inside on a Friday night too old and drugged to give a ■■■■. The illness wears you down that’s why you gotta comply with the meds or it’ll be a roller coaster ride of a lifetime. I don’t mean to preach either.
Yes this is an absolute possibility if you are taking an AD that effects your dopamine levels. I was warned of this by a psychiatrist.
Ok thanks, does it mean that you have bipolar if they do? Just a question
No absolutely not. If you are bipolar however antidepressants can result in mania, which is why prescribers are careful to look for signs of mania in those who start these medications. Someone with bipolar should never be prescribed an antidepressant. Someone with a psychotic disorder can be prescribed antidepressants but shouldn’t be given ones that affect dopamine.
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I used to take antidepressants before without any problems but after my 2nd psychotic relapse all antidepressants are worsening my psychosis.
Thanks, do you mind if I ask which symptoms it worsens? For me it scatters my thinking but so far no psychosis
I have sza and anti depressants can cause mania. My pdoc put me on this wall of meds to control those moods and manias, since I had a bad experience being put on only anti depressants by mistake (I forgot to mention to my pdoc about the brain implants and camera-implanted family dog that happened when I was in my freshman year of college for some reason, got put on zoloft, went manic and psychotic…)
abilify for psychosis
prozac for depression
lamictal for the affective part of sza.
The lamictal keeps the prozac from sending me into a mania.
Mood stabilizers can be given to those with sza, as with me, to knock out some of those mania/depression symptoms that accompany sza…or even the mania triggered by anti depressants in sza’s
Hey thanks for your reply. I have had very similar experiences to what you described but for some reason my doctor tells me I have bipolar even when I believe I have sza. Anyway I’m on lamictal 150 and Prozac 20. My hope is that the lamictal can keep the Prozac tamed like you described and then I can come off my anti psychotic when my mood gets stabilized. Do you have any problems with the lamictal Prozac combo? Do you find they work well together? I get really scared when I have intrusive thoughts or any kind of disorganized thinking. I hope this passes
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