I think social phobia/social anxiety is the main reason I feel depressed or had psychosis…I am not a schizophrenic in nature,I should get a 2nd opinion,had only visited one doctor this 5 years
Very thin ice,
Don’t go off meds
You probably feel like this because the meds are working!
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@clouddog i am not coming off medication,it’s just a that i am still struggling with daily work,just quarreled with my DAD a few days ago,I am wondering if I could find a girl that could maybe change my life
Life is just not that great now…trying hard to live though
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antidepressants could be added maybe - i started mine because of a basic lack of joy
They helped hugely with anxiety, and social problems and now that i’m also on a high dose !! I’m much less obsessive compulsive
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may I ask,what antidepressant are you on?
fluoxetine, started 20mg now on 60, more effective on obsessions at higher dose
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It’s almost completely stopped my health anxiety too!
My social phobia has only started since i started taking antipsychotics 
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Sometimes we know ourselves best.
I’m very confused that my anxiety issues go away when my psychotic symptoms are active. I’d definitely like a second opinion.
Wait up you guys, I cited a study on this in a term paper- anxiety and psychosis feed off each other, creating a vicious cycle. My paper was on the efficacy of psychoeducation on reducing anxiety levels and raising levels of functioning in paranoid schizophrenia patients. We often have both psychosis and anxiety, it’s very common.
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Fluoxetine is Prozac, which can have an anti-obsessional effect for some people. But it’s not Fluvoxamine (Luvox) which had been FDA-approved first-order for obsessionality for at least 20 years. Is there some confusion here?
Anxiety, obsessionality and psychosis (spectrally “extreme neurosis”) have been known to operate in a feedback loop since Freud’s day, maybe even before. There must be hundreds of papers connecting the dots in one way or another.
I get a but of sa but I more get generalised anxiety. My mood plays a huge role.
Can you connect your mood to any particular thoughts?
it usually quite a sudden change, not really connected with an event or situation, ive kept a log for a while to see what happens. but I can go from being completely unmotivated to completely motivated at the drop of a hat.
the change is so abrupt that i wonder what the hell was wrong with me and why i couldnt get myself to do anything.
Like sometimes for weeks at 6pm i get a rediculous amount of energy until the end of the night. then other times its the complete opposite i get depressive symptoms at around 6pm.
othertimes my mood is just flat and im completely flattened as well.
i recently quit drinking caffeine about 11 days ago to see if thats been having an effect. so far my moods definitely have fluctuated between exhausted and really depressed to just tons of anxiety to hypomania. I’m hoping in a month or 2 ill become more balanced.
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No, and I didn’t know that… Prozac has also helped with my bulimia… They didn’t tell me it only works on some people