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Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders

Psychotic disorders can be defined as a severe disconnection with reality, including by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized or agitated behavior without insight. Schizophrenia, Delusional Disorder, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder and Shared Psychotic Disorder are some of the psychotic disorders you may encounter. Talk about them on this forum.

Pseudo Parkinson's disease in antipsychotic therapy

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I am not really comfortable talking about my mental health, but I really need your help with something. I have been on antipsychotic therapy for a few months now, and it seems that the drugs have caused pseudo parkisons disease, which is something I really don't want to be stuck with - it is almost...

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Schizophrenia: Risperdal Cymbalta and side effects

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aight so I take Cymbalta and risperdal for paranoid schizophrenia. My family has a long history of schizophrenia and my son has it as well. My question is what is a better or different antidepressant to take other than Cymbalta. I can handle the weight gain from risperdal but the ED from this...

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What are the symptoms of involutional paranoid state?

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My mother is 87 yrs. old and I believe she is in a involutional paranoid state. She always accuses me of sneaking into her house and taking things, putting things back, moving things around in the house, and believes that she actually sees me in the house during the night. What can I do to help her...

by User avatar dr.good83005

my bf just had an episode-- I survived our relationship for 8 months and I didn't know he was bp

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My boyfriend freaked out on me last week with a bipolar episode. for the last 8 month he quits me every week but wants to continue being friends. He associated his mood swings and distance and coldness to the lack of sleep from sleep apena so I adjusted and worked with him. Never once during our...

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side effects of risperidone

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I ran into a mom of a boy who used to go to school with my daughter, 20 years ago, and we ended up chatting for a bit. I was saddened and shocked to find out that this boy, who used to play with my daughter all the time, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, in and out of mental institutions, and on...

by User avatar marylin403214493

With in the first hour of takeing quetiapine seroquel 25mg im having tons of hallucinations?

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HELP!!! with in the first hour of takeing quetiapine (seroquel) 25mg im having tons of hallucinations? what should i do? cause these ones are really makeing me jump out of my skin when i see them, which has never ever happened when ive had them in the past. also im tapering off sertraline (zoloft)...

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Ayurveda for schizophrenia

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Remember the 2001 Hollywood film, A beautiful Mind? It is the story of the famous economist John Nash, who had won Nobel Prize for Economics. The film beautifully depicts his hallucinations and his efforts to overcome the disease, schizophrenia. Another film dealing with the life and delusional...

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paranoid schizophrenic neighbor continues to accuse me...

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First off, sorry if this is a repost but I just registered and wanted to make sure that this is posted. Hello all, New to this forum... I saw a few posts about paranoid schizophrenic neighbors and decided to post my experience here to see if anyone has any advice. Anyway, I moved into this...

by User avatar Skoobaed142449

Im seeing things that arent really there

umm not sure of how do say whats been going on but last night i was out late around 1 am walking down a road and saw a car pulled at the end of it. i saw it was on with a person in it but as soon as i get near the end of the road it completely disappear and i didn't hear the person start the car and...

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Efavirenz inducing schizophrenia or bipolar disorder?

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Hello, folks. My friend is HIV positive and he is recommended to try with a drug called Efavirenz. I have heard something about this drug. Some people say that it can cause schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. I wonder if this is true or not. I hope someone will answer this. Bye!

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