Psychosis Questions

What I understood from your writing is that you are highly anxious and worried. You may not be having that many kind of illnesses as you described. I am a Clinical Psychologist and what I feel is that you did not get psychological interventions like psychotherapy or counselling in addition to your treatment now. Try to avail cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for the same. Definitely healthy diet with fish and fish oil (omega3) will help you. Avoid direct sugars, processed food and Too much of fa...more

Repetitive tasks, intrusive and repetitive thoughts, checking, counting, disproportionate excess need for order and cleanliness, as well as anxiety when not able to do the same are signs of obsessive compulsive disorder. Patients with OCD suffer from significant distress, anxiety and depression due to the same which impairs their quality of life. Please consult a Psychiatrist at the earliest. With a combination of medication and behavioral therapy it is likely that your symptoms will improve.

Let her do some exercise and yoga..
And also take homoeopathic medicine...
You may give
Kali Phos 6X TDs..

Someone has to make your family realise that anxiety and depression are also medical illnesses and needs to be evaluated and treated by a psychiatrist. Since you are major you can seek treatment on your own, if you don't have money seek help from any government medical college psychiatry department which usually provides free consultation and mediations, which will help you recover. All the best.

Why don't you your self visit a psychiatrist
ask him to examine you and advise you. It can be medicine or psychoeducation or psychotherapy.
Stick to one doctor for 3 weeks.
Follow his advise.

Hello, There are many aspects of depression, the more of them you have the more likely you are to have a clinical depression. Some patients feel severely depressed and suicidal. If you have these feelings you should go to the emergency department immediately. Other things that people with depression can feel are sadness, low energy, lack of motivation, poor sleep, irritability, weight gain or loss, poor self image and sometimes even a lack of touch with reality. The more of these symptoms you ha...more

Yes there are some indirect side effects like sleeping tendencies and weight gain. Weight gain is not related to the tablets. But medicine creates leathery feeling due to that people's likes to be in sedentary lifestyles. So it's better to taper the doses slowly by consulting your psychiatrist. And maintain regular exercises vegetarian diet and avoid fried and junk food. And do yoga and pranayama. And keep your mind relaxed.

Dear lybrate-user,
Whether you have transient psychosis or bipolar or schizophrenia or sleeping problem, it is for the psychiatrist to diagnose and treat you properly. With this dose you are without relapse and acting like average person. Why do you want to lose those effects of drugs.
Bipolar disorder is a relapsing disorder - sometimes with high overconfident mood sometimes with low self esteem sad mood. Both will be kept under control with valproate and quetiapine.
During active p...more

Hi, Thanks for writing in, welcome to the forum. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness (SMI). Psychotic symptoms are one of the many symptoms of schizophrenia. Psychotic symptoms are also one of the most obvious symptoms of schizophrenia. Presence of delusions, hallucinations, odd behaviors leading to poor functioning can all be symptoms of schizophrenia. One may be able to notice smiling/ muttering to self, suspiciousness etc in a patient with schizophrenia. In different people different sym...more

Dear Shaik,
rTMS is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. It is one of the modes of treatment - but not the only mode. If drugs do not work or if you can not tolerate drugs and if you are suicidal, it will be advised. You can take it at conscious level unlike ECT that is done under anaesthesia. It needs a number of sessions. Please discuss with you r doctor about it. You can assess the improvement yourself. But you need to continue the medicines also along with rTMS.