Question on medications?

I have heard that if you are psychotic/schizophrenic, that you don't know you are. Is this how you know if you have these illnesses? Is this correct information? I have been diagnosed with OCD and Depression, but something has gone terribly wrong. I'm pretty sure that I have psychotic/schizophrenic symptoms and that they were induced by Zoloft. Then Clomipramine made it worse. I've also been on Aropax and Luvox. I have tried augmenting with Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Risperidone. I've self-medicated with Morphine, Codeine, Serenace, Rohypnol, Mogadon, Frisium, Temaze, Klonopin, Valium, Serepax, Ativan, Xanax, Stilnox, and Baclofen, Alcohol, and Marijuana. Every drug I take is making me worse. Could I have some brain damage from all this? Could all this stuff create psychosis/schizophrenia? My mum thinks I belong in Graylands mental hospital. I am a danger to the community, I can't leave the house, and I've lost my job. Can any body shed some light on this?
I need some urgent help.

A short stay at a psychiatric hospital to help get your medications straightened out might be a good idea.
Talk to your psychiatrist.

i think that you are a danger to yourself. what are you doing self medicating with all these meds? where are you getting them from?

my opinion is that YOU MAY BE A DRUG ADDICT... you are what is commonly called a "garbage head" so.. seek NA, AA, CA, D (drugs)A etc... and get into action

AND!!!!!!.....

most importantly:

THERE ARE NO MAGIC PILLS....

learn this lesson NOW... then maybe you might be able to (WITH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE) wean off ALL meds


what are you eating,
what daily exercise are you getting?
what twice daily relaxation techniques are you practicing for 20 minutes each session.

charlton

I think this is something you should be telling your doctor, especially if you are a danger to the community. If I felt that way, I would probably have myself committed, that way they could spend more time on focusing on what I needed. Personally though, I would think that if you can tell your doctor that you are hallucinating / delusional, then you know that you have psychosis, and that is a good reason to try to get help for the problem. Good luck to you.

First of all, get off those medications and DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT self medicate with prescription drugs. I don't know how you are getting them, but the person giving you those meds needs to be locked up and the key thrown away. They are going to kill you. Most of those drugs you listed need to be tapered down before switching to another one. Start taking a good daily vitamin to help clean out your system and to begin repairing the damage that has been done. Also start taking 3000mg of vitamin C a day in three separate doses. Many physical and mental health problems are caused by vitamin deficiencies. If you keep using these drugs as you are, you WILL suffer permanent brain damage. Not from the marijuana, but everything else you have listed is dangerous.

Get a psychiatrist that works with mental illness AND comorbid substance abuse.

Tell the psychiatrist EVERYTHING you are taking.

ONLY take what your psychiatrist tells you to take (drug and dose). If it's not working, call. They are there to help which means not leaving you in an intolerable way.

Be open to a psych hospital stay to get you and your system straightened out. With all those drugs, no one can properly diagnose you, and without that, no one has a good chance of properly treating you.

To answer your initial question, nearly all the non-psych drugs mentioned can cause psychosis depending on your reaction, dosing, mix-and-match with or without psych meds in the loop.

Bipolar disorder includes psychosis, and for some antidepressants are a trip to mania, mixed states, or worsened depression. All of those affect states can include psychosis.

In other words, schiz is not the only reason one can become psychotic.

Btw, psychotic in a clinical sense means hallucinations (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling) things that are not there, and delusions (believing things that are not real). It's possible to have one w/out the other. The measure is functional impairment. Schizophrenia includes profoundly disorganized thinking (really illogical, non-linear) in addition to psychosis and some other symptoms as well.

schizo people are convinced of people, events, or activities are there/happening/are going to happen, that it is beyond real to them. If you are not suffering from delusions like this or seeing things that are not there- of course you couldn't tell the difference between reality or delusions being schizophrenic- then you are not schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is so rare, that it is nothing really even considering most of the time. Depression pills would NEVER cause schizophrenia. They are used to boost serotonin in your brain, and i also think you are on way too many medications for the same disorder- depression and anxiety. Serotonin and schizophrenia have absolutely no correlation to each other. Take your mother's advice and get into a hospital- you may also be suffering from "munch-housens" i don't know how to spell it, but that's how it's pronounced. It's a disorder in which you want the attention from doctors.

My diagnosis is bi-polar with psychosis.

I experienced delusions-- extreme delusions-- and I was committed to a mental hospital by my parents.

The doctors there immediately put me on Geodon which worked fine. It's supposed to bring you down to earth and it cured my problem with racing thoughts and delusions. Right now I take a low dose 40 mg, but in the hospital I was on a much higher dose 160 mg.

So there are medications to specifically help with your problem.

As far as self-medicating-- that's too many to see what the effects are of one individual medication!

I honestly would go to a mental hospital to rest and for safety to get your meds sorted out by a doctor.

Personally, I take 3 medications:

Geodon 40 mg (for mania & psychosis)
Abilify 10 mg (for depression)
Lamictal 200 mg (mood stabilizer)

Good luck finding your med mix.. don't rush it... these things can take months to get right! Have patience and let each one do it's thing before switching to so many and so often. You have to see the results of one before you switch to another.

~best wishes~

Mild psychosis is quite possible. Some of the drugs you have taken can cause it. I do not suspect schizophrenia as only 1% of adults have it. If you are under 18, you can be pretty sure you do not have it. Asperger's Syndrome and Avoidant Personality have some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. As for the thing about not knowing, it is not always true.

You may not like to hear this but the person who said you are a drug addict may be close, because if you are ???? taking these drugs ( and i do not understand how you can because they have to be prescribed by a doc to get, unless you are taking them from someone else) you have a problem.. You cannot self diagnose yourself., only a psychiatrist can diagnose you. If you did not take all these meds maybe you would not need to go into a hospital. Now you go into the hospital work out whatever problem you may have which is causing you to take all these meds, and feeling this way, get yourself straightened out and come out hopefully feeling like a new person.