Anybody on here heard anything about a new breakthrough that says some cases of psychosis are caused by antibodies in the blood? NMDA encephalitis is one cause and about 10 percent of other cases can be chalked up to a faulty immune response.
Please elaborate
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The BBC had something about this on its website.
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It’s brand new. And yes I think I read that the research came from the Royal college of London or Cardiff University. It would be a godsend if this information were true(at least for the 10% that test positive for the antibod)
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As a child I was born with some virus like strep b or something and barely lived, wonder if any of this information can correlate
Yeah we learned in my psych classes that viruses the mom gets can cause mental issues in the baby in vitro…however it’s unknown how prevalent this actually is and how many cases of sz are because of this…
My mom had a very normal pregnancy with me to my knowledge, and I was born right on time. Nothing abnormal.
It was an alien, the shadow folk and faeries came to, â– â– â– â– â– â– ghosts were everywhere.
I was indeed possessed.
And then i was drugged.
I’m not sure how to cite an article on here but I just read it. It’s a current finding that suggests that some not all cases of schizophrenia like psychosis are caused by an antibody in the blood stream that is treatable with modern medicine and the psychotic symptoms will then go away. I’m going to ask my doctor about it. Maybe as many as 10% of all cases of sz like symptoms are caused by this inflammation.
Since my symptoms don’t fit into a concrete disgnostic category for sz or sza or even bipolar, I’m wondering if this could be the cause.
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I think mine was caused by this. I had a fever and other issues occur. Years later I pieced together what happened and remembered that I was also given a sleeping pill the night before the morning I had the episode. I also woke up and had been moved to my bed and had lost time. I was at boarding school and I assume it was covered up what really happened which cost me years of life to the system because the abuses just piled up after that. Not having the cause and effect understood or acknowledged also adds to the life term trauma.
I would ask your dr about this then. If you think you might be one of the “lucky ones”. You could see if your psychosis responds to conventional medicine rather than anti psychotics. I’m going to ask my doc about it on Monday
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I would say that im someone this dosnt apply too. Pity.
What makes you think that?
Could you post a link?
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Thx, I would have struggled to find it.
I have psoriasis, which is a autoimmune disorder. Before becoming psychotic I had red marks up my arms and on my chest. I got given steroid cream for the ones on my hands.
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This isn’t new, this is what I have, antibodies to the achr receptor, acetylcholine
This is the NMDA receptor
Has been evidence for awhile that the bodies has been fighting a virus while going through psychosis. My personal option is it’s more stress related ie low immune system just more added chaos to the confession then the actual cause.
If you Google around some more there are multiple autoimmune conditions, autoimmunity and psychosis go hand in hand. I counted 99 autoimmune diseases on one list.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/psychiatric-symptoms-signal-autoimmune-disorders
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I am also waiting for serious breakthrough …!!!
From the Psychiatric Times:
Psychiatric symptoms are not uncommon in patients with autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren syndrome, temporal arteritis, sarcoidosis, scleroderma, Hashimoto thyroiditis, and myasthenia gravis
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