At age 25 I was admitted to hospital for severe alcohol abuse and anxiety. I had sleeping therapy for 10 days and I underwent an alcoholic recovery treatment class. I was subsequently put on Prozac and Etomine. I used the stuff for a few months and then quit it. Today I Google Etomine and I saw that it is an atypical antipsychotic used for severe anxiety and schizophrenia. I self medicated for years to come with alcohol. At age 35 I started to become paranoid and delusional but I was only diagnosed 7 years later with paranoid schizophrenia. My question is this…did the psychiatrist put me on meds for sz way back then and I never knew it and suffered sz for all these years till I couldn’t bear it anymore? Are there any of you who also went untreated for many years until you were finally diagnosed?
i was diagnosed at 26…
but had symptoms/strange behaviour from an early age…
only now the last year am i getting professional help…
i stayed away from the medical world because they tried to lock me up at 26.
shrinks don’t get it right all the time…sz is hard to diagnose…it could be psychosis…or ocd…ptsd.
etc…
take care
when i get older losing my voices many year from now well you stell be putting in a straightcoat
a lot of the same meds are used for many different things.
It’s weird to me that my kid brother who is just getting used to his new bipolar 1 diagnosis is talking about Latuda because of it’s mood elevation and stabilizing abilities. It will be odd being on the same meds as my kid brother.
When I look at some of the AP’s and it says "also used for… bipolar, anxiety disorders, ptsd… on and on… I have a feeling that no med is exclusive to any one thing.
That’s just me.
It is absolutely true that the same meds gets used for different diagnosis. In addition to my Abilify I also use Epitec as a mood stabiliser. Epitec is also prescribed for people with bi-polar and I don’t have bi-polar. I’ve had social phobia since early childhood and I think that that might have contributed to my anxiety. When I was diagnosed with sz I asked my p-doc for something to calm me down. She told me that the AP that I was using at the time is a tranquiliser and it will calm me down.