Posted by Zanzibar_inJanuary on May 11, 2005, at 2:52:29
not so bad? Or are they indicators of a predisposition to psychosis?
Many things here, bare with me---This is for anyone with knowlade, first hand or otherwize, of psychosis/schizophrenia/pathological anxiety
1) Does anyone with mild psychotic symptoms, ie auditory hallucinations (not conversing,) and bouts of derealization, depression and anxiety, fail to respond to atypical antipsychotics? If so, what is your diagnosis? Do older antipsychotics work for you? What about benzodiazapines? Have you had to learn to simply *cope* with the psychotic symptoms?
2) If you have actually been diagnosed with Schizophrenia, or have developed psychosis, did you have any precipitating symptoms like those described above?
I don't have a Schizophrenia dx because I've never had bizzare delusions, and the hallucinations are mild, and are usually precipitated by stress. (Possibly caused by anxiety?)
I don't *feel* like I could ever be delusional, I always have much insight and am reasonable even whilst hearing things and being agitated and depressed..But I'm young- according to all I've read,younger than the average age of initial psychotic breaks. Are these "sub-syndromal"? symptoms? Could they someday develop into fullblown psychosis?
I worry at times that something horrible will happen in my life (like losing a loved one) I could not cope with something like that. Maybe I have a diathesis for developing Schizophrenia?My aunt was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she committed suicide at 22; but she had her first psychotic break when she was in her mid-teens, and she always denied that anything was wrong with her.
I've read some other posts on this subject on this board, and over and over again people say "if you are objective and have insight, are aware your hallucinations arent real, then you aren't schizophrenic".
Yes, I'm absolutely aware the voices arent real, and I never lose myself completely when I dissociate. But who knows how fine the line is that I'm walking?
All of these problems started durring very stressful circumstances in high school- I don't know what came first, the depression or the anxiety, but the hallucinations started seemingly out of the blue last summer.If youve made it this far- I commend you. you may have already responded to my other thread, but if not, please share any thoughts.
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