Posted by temoigneur on April 17, 2005, at 1:16:36
In reply to Anxiety with psychotic features??, posted by B2chica on April 15, 2005, at 12:06:22
> is there such a thing as anxiety that causes psychotic features such as aud/visual hallucinations (shadows and such), uncontrolled laughter, or manic type symptoms including dyphoric episodes?
> can anxiety cause this or is this more the bp spectrum?
>I've been diagnosed with a good:( range of anxiey disorders, and I was put on seroquel to help with the OCD. It made me psychotic, I was so anxious, I thought that if I didn't respond to these extremely overvalued, distorted ideas, I would die/suffer etc. The pdoc noted that my obsesions where so strong, that some may be tempted to think they were indeed reaching the level of psychosis, and dilusion - so if anxiety is all I had - b/c of a med that exacerbated it, I ended up telling a dear elderly relative, f*&^ off .......... enunciating very clearly - it was like having splints in my finger nails, ...
I think it's hard to extract anxiety from any psychiatric phenomina, Freud described it as a nodal or perhaps partly shared featured of all psychological pain.
Anyway, my rambling has likely raised questions rather than answered much but it's my story and I got to tell it, (again
Ben
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