Posted by Else on September 1, 2001, at 0:00:24
In reply to Re: do I have schizophrenia?, posted by Andre Allard on August 31, 2001, at 23:01:19
> It is unlikely that you have schizophrenia unless it runs in your family.
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> I have abused different drugs while on antidepressants including ephidrine. Sometimes if I over did it with the drugs I would disasociate or become paronoid.
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> With regards to Else's comment about risperdal being acceptable only for the treatment of shizophrenia and that it is a bad choice of medication for you is a completly uninformed opinion. Just about every pdoc would disagree with Else.
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> The atypical antipsychotics have been effective in just about every mental disorder. The atypicals help with sleep, anxiety, cognitive distortions, intrusive thoughts, obsessions, paranioa, hallucinations, rage, anger, depression, mania and the list goes on.
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> Besides the weight gain and somnolance experienced with the aytipicals, I think, along with the majoridy of the psychiatric community, that they are very helpful in treating mental illness.
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> Good luck?
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> Please excuse my spelling.That is not what I said. I said I *personally* thought antipsychotics were innapropriate for non-psychotic conditions, if I recall correctly. I do have my own reasons for believing this. However, I did mention at the end of my post that IF Risperdal worked better for him there was no reason he should drop it.
Of course, anti-psychotics work for everything. They shut you down (just like when windows crashes and you have to do alt-ctrl-del, well that's what they do). There are, however, subtler methods that do not cause irreversable neurological disorders (like tardive dyskinesia, for instance) that should be tried FIRST if psychosis is not clearly present. And as far as the psychiatric community goes, please, tell me how many pdocs you know take Risperdal or Zyprexa? I would think Valium is more popular among them but I could be wrong. Please read what I write before you dismiss it. I just re-read my post and I used the word "psychosis" not "schizophrenia" and please let me speak to one of these specialists who would disagree with me. I'm curious to know why.
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