My diagnosis was drug induced psychosis.
The effects are supposed to last for like 6 months I believe?
If voices and delusions oh and reading things different to what they are, are my only symptoms, does that mean I just have psychosis? Is just psychosis even a diagnosis?
I don’t feel psychotic not like when I have my first episode, that was a whole different ball game
Are you saying it’s still there but not as much?
My voices are still alive and kicking, they’re a lot worse than they have been lately, I still have the thought broadcasting delusion and lately another one where I feel people can feel it when I accidentally hurt myself…
But if it was drug induced then it should of stopped by now :(?
It sounds like it’s been going on for much longer than 6 months
Mine was not from drugs, but they still said it would only happen once and took me off meds, they were soooooooooo wrong
Maybe you have post partum psychosis?
I also wonder I don’t know if this is wat u mean but wat is the difference between psychosis and schizophrenia because I’ve been diagnosed as psychosis even though I heard voices etc for like half year until I was medicated. I’m slowly coming off antipsychotic now so I’m guessing that the diagnosis will change to schizophrenia if voices etc come back.
They significantly changed the definition of schizophrenia regarding qualifying components.
It used to be out of 7 or so major features you’d have to have at least 4 for a legitimate diagnosis.
I went through having the drug-induced psychosis label and it was probably 6 months after confirmed sobriety that they gave me the stronger diagnostic label.
The blurry line that determines what is a psychotic feature, is that it is persistent in the individual beyond subjugation to things that have been shown to alleviate neurosis. Where neurosis all has strong voluntary components that can be more easily alleviated and undercut by therapy and medication. Elements of psychosis lack that voluntary component in any perceivable way.
Psychosis is not an indicator of schizophrenia alone. Which is why I liked the older model for determining the diagnosis.
I believe schizophrenia is more or less a generic label for having a disease with psychotic features, including persistent delusions, that renders an individual dysfunctional and incapable of taking care of oneself. Or more along those lines. The case to case evaluation is subjective to a very fractured field of differing levels of interest and professional opinion.
Basically though, the hall mark sign of being dysfunctional is when an individual can longer foreseeably maintain gainful employment due to their illness. Prolonged medical evaluation has enough documentation for the state to accept an individual as “disabled” or incapable of being financially independent.
There is a wide range of factors there… Which is why it’s important to look past the illness, beyond accepting that you have atypical issues to a degree that jeopardize your capacity to maintain standard expectations. I mean it’s important to not stand in denial that your mental experience is significantly different than the expectation, but beyond that… You should treat your mental illness as the collective set of your symptoms. Each one detailed…
Breaking it down can make it a lot easier to determine how to cope or even overcome the added struggles in life.
Leave it to your doctors to determine a professional evaluation… and if you don’t think a particular doctor is getting right… seek secondary opinions. Psychiatrists deal with a wide range of very complex and poorly understood disorders, and because of this their opinions shouldn’t be considered 100% accurate.
I’ve met a share of them… half of the time the person writing the prescription was nothing more than nurse practitioner. Not an official psychiatrist that is capable of operating on their own.
So things to consider there.
It’s more important to never forget that you have a strong amount of mental frailty and it’s important to shape the course of your future to best respect that… because it’s only then that life can seem strongly stable enough to trust… At that point it’s a lot easier to get a sense of comfort with the illness being there and let of the tragedy of the unique challenges life dropped on you all at once.
I’m assuming your delusions have passed and that you have more residual frustrations and confusions with the experience…
Based on the duration of your symptoms it should be a sign to most professionals that you had a psychotic “first break” that should stand legitimately out against cases of drug-induced… short term psychosis.
However I’m not a professional, but I hope all of that helps. It’s about all the perspective I have on the matter.
I had my first break in 2016 for half a year and since then I’ve been delusional free so far but I’m slowly coming off the med this year so we will see what happens or doesn’t happen.
There is a reverse placebo effect of coming off meds scaring sufferers back into expecting their symptoms… Which sort of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in a mild sense.
Take it slow…
I kept doses on hand… I started skipping days to test stability… I got a real sense of how my brain operates without meds… And I still have an old supply trazadone and zyprexa for crisis scenarios…
Just my notes on that.
It sounds like you’re under the supervision of your doctor. And that’s probably safest thing to allow to guide you!!!
Good luck!
Thanks! yea-slowly- that is one of the main things, I’m coming off them over more than half a year.
and yes i’m under doctor’s supervision that’s true I need to just keep a supply on me
Hope your symptoms will go away soon.
Some woman get psychosis while pregnant.
I admitedly have tried drugs but I was a wierdo as a child too…
Seriously I wAs not normal and had symptoms before I even tried a drug.
I just had voices over the pregnancy, just like before I was pregnant, and the same after. Maybe I’m just someone that has voices. I don’t feel psychotic in the slightest. Other than the voices and the two delusions which are really under control. But then I am on my meds which probably help, I dunno.
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