Posted by Else on July 29, 2001, at 10:03:23
In reply to Re: Hallucinating, Dissociating? - HELP! Else, posted by Katt on July 28, 2001, at 20:58:37
Yes, it looks like partial seizures and the fact that you've had symptoms of mood labitity and were diagnosed BPD points even more in the direction of epilepsy, but only a doctor could say for sure. In any event it doesn't look like any sort of psychosis (schizophrenic or bipolar) given that the symptoms are very brief and that your thinking is normal.
How long were you on Depakote? How much of it did you take? Did it help at all?
> So you suspect that this is likely to be a seizure of brain abnormality of some sort? I can agree that schizophrenia can easily be ruled out. I was on depakote once during a hospitalization. The doctor's intention was to stabilze my mood so that I would not self-injure.
> I quickly went off the drug though.
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> > AN EEG would determine this and anti-convulsant meds would probably take care of it. Schizophrenia usually involves *auditory* hallucinations and some form of delusional thinking. Very brief visual hallucinations followed by an affective reaction does not ressemble psychosis, especially if your thinking is not affected. Only a doctor can rule out psychosis but the symptoms don't match.
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> > > I did. A seizure of some sort? What sorts of measures would prevent this from happening? Could it get worse? Is it something I would have to be on medication for? Is most everyone certain that this is not a symptom of psychosis? Does my age or gender (25, F) have anything to do with this and why it is occurring now?
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> > > > Hope you'll take a look at my post to you on thread above,
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> > > > Zo
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