Can you be functioning well, then Manic and psychotic and with mood stabilisers bring you back to functioning well?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I mean I came back from Sri Lanka last year and according to all my team I was manic and psychotic. I have took 150mg monthly injection of paliperidone for years now. I come back from Sri Lanka and showing illness, I got sectioned (hospitalised) and given a mood stabiliser (Epolin) with no increase of AP. I get well and some months later refuse to take the mood stabiliser. I remain well and out of hospital.

Does this sound night. No increase in antipsychotic and only increase mood stabiliser.Which I don’t take anymore. Will my 150mg a month injection be tiding me over now? Please let it make sense to me. Thank you.

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sounds like a question for a pdoc, honestly.

But if you want an honest opinion, I don’t think mood stabilizers are known for bringing you of psychosis.

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It sounds like youre back to stability on your regular meds. For me, i had to increase the ap after becoming sick, but this isnt necessary for everyone. Good for you not needing an increase.

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Mood stabilizers are well known for bringing people out of manic psychosis @Bowens.
@bobbilly

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I see. I didnt think about schizoaffective / bipolar psychosis. YOu are probably right.

I just know my mood stabilizer INCREASES the risk of psychosis because of the changes in dopamine.

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Thank you at @SkinnyMe

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I have SZA. I’ve been questioning if I’ve been unwell @Bowens I even question if these intrusive thoughts I’m having about god reading my thoughts and talking to me on the TV are voices or are really intrusive thoughts? I will talk to my psychiatrist about them on Friday but I’m meant to go to Turkey on vacation for 11 days in April with my support staff. I don’t think I’m able too to be honest. Feel really bad for letting the support staff down.

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