Posted by Dave1 on July 19, 2001, at 16:49:25
In reply to Re: depression and psychosis » Dave1, posted by Elizabeth on July 19, 2001, at 7:41:26
> > Lately, I've been having 'reality problems' that
> > seem to be coming from depression. Some of symptoms
> > include: People and surroundings looking unfamiliar,
> > Things seeming distorted, I feel like I have no idea
> > who or what I am, I feel like I'm not part of my body,
> > and thing in the environment don't seem to make sense
> > to me in a way that they used to.
>
> That sounds like derealisation and depersonalisation -- dissociative symptoms (though to be related to anxiety or panic attacks, and IMO they can happen with depression too). They're not considered to be symptomatic of psychosis, but some people are helped by antipsychotic drugs.
>
> Which antipsychotic drugs have you tried so far? Clozaril is problematic because you *must* have frequent blood tests for a rare but dangerous dyscrasia that it can cause.
>
> There's a small chance that you might be experiencing partial seizures, which would be exacerbated by many antipsychotic drugs.
>
> -elizabethHi Elizabeth and everyone else who wrote back,
I've tried most of the new anti-psychs, and a
few old ones. Risperdal helped at first, but
only for a couple of days. I know the problems
with clozaril, but I heard it helps in 30% of the
cases where no others help.As for the TLE, my pdoc did mention something like
as a possibility,Dave
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