I feel like sz doesn’t explain all my symptoms. It doesn’t explain the hypersexuality or the anger issues without sz symptoms. These symptoms are not related to paranoia or sz. On 10mg Abilify I have no sz symptoms but have those issues. Now I am on 6mg risperidone equiv to 46mg Abilify without those symptoms. Does risperidone treat these symptoms or personality disorders? I feel like its mania but my Dr said no, he thinks its my normal I am just born with those problems. Honestly he’s right I have always had these way before sz since I was a kid. Can you be born with mania? Do these seem like a personality disorder? I don’t accept myself for having such horrible symptoms, I feel like a monster.
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Thats a lot of questions. It seems like you are kind of using risperidone “off label” to treat anger issue unrelated to sz to me. I dont know about the hypersexuality thing.
Just the impression I get based on what you have said in the past.
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I don’t know if we are born with them or if it is circumstances that break us. I have Avoidant Personality Disorder, for example.
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“When the effects of risperidone and haloperidol on uncontrolled hostility and excitement were compared,12 20 mg/day of haloperidol and 2 mg/day of risperidone produced a similar reduction in symptoms on the PANSS subscale. Risperidone causes little sedation, which indicates that it can effectively reduce hostility and excitement through a mechanism other than sedation.”
Atypical Antipsychotics: Sleep, Sedation, and Efficacy - PMC.
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Yes high dose risperidone makes my hypersexuality and anger issues almost completely gone better than I have ever been much better than before sz and better than since my first memories. The problem is that it makes negative symptoms worse compared to 10mg Abilify.
I did inappropriate stuff when I was a kid I got punished almost expulsed from school eventhough I had excellent grades, I tried to poison my teacher i put soap in his coffee he almost called the cops. I also touched girls inappropriately and made my gf go through hell. I wanted to be a pornstar and almost became one but I feel like thats not me I get good grades in school and should work with my degree, I am smart but my personality is ■■■■.
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I feel like I have 2 personalities a good and bad one. As a result I had both good and bad friends. Now though I left all my bad friends.
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Honestly I’m not a doctor but a lot of what you say seems to point at the least severe end bipolar and it seems a lot of stuff seems to make you hypomanic hypomania is a major part of schizoaffective disorder bipolar type which is schizophrenia and bipolar together it just from what you post about how stuff affects you also abilify and risperidol are used to treat all the symptoms of bipolar disorder
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Can you have mania at such a young age without sz symptoms? These symptoms started long before sz, they started since my first memories like 5-6y.o. I was diagnosed with sz at 21y.o.
I got into a lot of trouble as a kid for rage and impulses so yeah idk nobody here can diagnose you but I highly recommend talking to your doctor some doctors are idiots and need there license taken away I’m not saying yours tho I’d just be mindful and try to stay stable once you go manic it becomes more and more harder to just wanna not go into that state from what ive experienced and it’s highly destructive to a life destroying degree
Boy are you gonna hate it if you have a personality order @Aziz. You may actually have to start taking therapy seriously.
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Seems to be the hot thing to diagnose yourself with lately lol
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Being hypersexual is not “horrible” per se. Being promiscuous is bad, although still not horrible, compared to many other scenarios (being a serial killer for instance).
A lot of people have anger issues. Maybe you should’ve channeled this energy into sports or martial arts, maybe you could still do it, actually.
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idk what I have or what these symptoms are honeslty. my pdoc says they’re not a disorder and thats just who i am
It just seems that several members here are posting about it lately that’s all
I’d listen to your drs opinion. I’ve been worried I had a PD before and was told the same thing.
It’s normal to relate somewhat to personality disorders, they’re just extreme versions of normal human behavior
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Yes I visually hallucinated all my life voices came next then at about 12 I had a full psychotic breakdown I thought so many things and a few months before that I got manic and started vandalizing breaking windows that was the lead on to the episode
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I wish its mania as then i can lower my ap dose and take a mood stabilizer but my pdoc said no
Idk definitely beyond my capabilities to help but maybe idk it might help but keep in mind antipsychotic meds are also mood stabilizers that they give patients with bipolar disorder
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He said no to a mood stabilizer but allowed me to cut my risperidone dose in half from 6 to 3mg. He orginally put me on 3mg and said I am stable and closed my file said i dont need a pdoc anymore. I lied to my gp and told him i have sz symptoms to up to 6mg but in reality it was aggression and hypersexuality. @Bowens is right I am using it off label
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Some sexually abused children become very sexually promiscuous, hypersexual, or in extreme cases can even become child abusers or prostitutes, or have other serious sexual problems when they reach adulthood. Some adults will struggle with not making a connection between intimacy and sex.
maybe its the sexual abuse i had as a kid