I have my opinion on this matter, it’s Yes, they can. I experienced psychosis on a med I took many times and didn’t know what was happening, got off it and I’m very grateful to not have to deal with that again!
Another problem is too much sleep can make you crazy.
What are your experiences?
Please don’t ask me to name the medicine that gave me psychosis, it is a good medicine and worked splendidly for a long time, thus I prefer to keep it anonymous.
I’d say not. You still get breakthroughs on meds. That is the art of the whole thing if they work. Get to a point where positives aren’t greater than side effects and function. So. I’d imagine it’s the disorder itself rather than a causal agent but it’s all brain chemistry…
If it does it would be super rare.
They can if you stop them
Psychiatric meds are known to have paradoxical effects. But I don’t know anything about onset.
In your case antipsychotic might have stopped working. This is know to happen as well. It was not drug induced. Psychosis recurred in your case because drug stopped working.
I think so. Altering brain chemistry can always have an effect on our perception.
The first time I took an antipsychotic it most DEFINITELY increased my psychosis. I was just done taking Wellbutrin which made me hallucinate. They then put me on risperdal and I hallucinated a lot more. Was hospitalized after that and put on heavy duty multiple APs finally I was stabilized.
Good question @Jinx I wondered that myself
My educated guess: I don’t think so. I was taught the hypothesised mechanism of action.
For the typical AP especially no.
Among the a-typical AP mostly no.
There is a subset of the a-typical that might do something weird. Aripiprazole and Cariprazine as I am told do go on dopamine receptors, but the molecule allows to be docked by dopamine, so its not a full blockade.
when i first got sick the meds they put me on made my symptoms worse
wasnt till i got closaril and a couple other aps to help the closaril that i got some relief
I took medicine for thirty five years and this was the first med that caused a symptom, paranoia. Other medications have indirectly hurt me by causing over sleeping, which made my mind chaotic. I mean I really overslept big time. Usually oversleeping is okay or desirable, imo.
Possibly, there is a very real phenomenon with medication known as “The Paradoxical Effect” where drugs can have the opposite effect than they are suppose to have.
For example Benzos usually calm down people with anxiety, but paradoxically some individuals experience heightened anxiety on them.
Antipsychotics
Chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic and antiemetic drug which is classed as a “major” tranquilizer, may cause paradoxical effects such as agitation, excitement, insomnia, bizarre dreams, aggravation of psychotic symptoms and toxic confusional states.[6]
Not normally. At exceptionally high doses, when it would be causing many other problems, it might do so. Otherwise, the psychosis would most likely have another cause, like the condition for which the AP was prescribed.
As others have said, it is possible but not likely.
I believe that it would be far more likely to get rebound (withdrawal) psychosis after stopping an antipsychotic than it occurring while taking it
One thing for sure is that medication should be dispensed by a trained and licensed profession and not someone that took the medication and had a different response than the one that you are having at the time.