Posted by bleauberry on July 7, 2009, at 8:02:01
In reply to psychiatric patients not equal treated around wo, posted by Jeroen on July 7, 2009, at 2:52:22
I agree.
Roaming through pubmed I notice that some of the most intriguing research comes from places like Germany and Austria.
In the US you would have been let out of the hospital a long time ago. You would only be in it if you were attempting suicide or threatening harm to someone else. Full-blown psychotics walk the streets all the time as long as they pose no serious danger to anyone.
I have followed your posts a long time. Even though you can't see me and don't know I am there, I have been there with you at every one of your posts. I have not seen any sign of authentic psychosis. Depression and desperation yes. No doubt. I can't help but wonder if the so-called psychosis they have labelled you with is not psychosis, but rather a pronounced version of anxiety/panic. They can easily look alike. I've had a form of anxiety before that was so weird it did seem to border on psychosis or delusions. But it wasn't either of those. It did not respond well to antipsychotics or mood stabilizers, which actually made them a bit worse. It did however respond to anti-anxiety treatments fairly quickly. Such as SSRI, TCA, or both...but not SNRIs.
I've said it before, but I think you would do a whole lot better with low dose TCAs possibly combined with low dose SSRI in combination with a low-medium dose antipsychotic. I know it is hard to make a judgement through a computer screen, but I just see a ton of anxiety and no psychosis.
I conclude that the doctors in your part of the world have given you a misdiagnosis, where in another part of the world the diagnosis would be quite different.
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