Posted by Ritch on February 23, 2002, at 0:12:22
In reply to psychotic depression, posted by geno on February 22, 2002, at 15:14:02
> can someone define this term. Does this entale too much dopamine and lack of seratonin.
> genoGeno,
It is a depressive episode that deepens (or is mixed up) to the point of delusional thinking (considerable thought disorder). That happened to my grandma in the 60's. She thought my grandfather was trying to kill her and that he was listening to her through the walls all of the time (and was involved with the electicity supplying their farm, etc.) I think it was really a manic-mixed-state. She was misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and got ECT and antipsychotics later and came home. I remember her compulsively counting her fingers with her thumb all of the time when I was a kid. She died a few years later. Her daughter (My Mom), had nocturnal grand mal seizures which started with my older brother's birth and ended with my birth.
I had a friend of mine who also became psychotically depressed. It wasn't manic, it was a unipolar psychotic depression. She just got so vegged out, so tired and listless, wouldn't eat for days. But, she had a weird idea system about the outside world that was just so WAY off. We had to drag her in for a 72-hr.
I couldn't speculate about neurotransmitters in these cases-they were just so extreme.
Mitch
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