Posted by Snoozy on June 5, 2003, at 18:10:17
In reply to Re: Bipolars---would you go nuts if your mood, posted by whiterabbit on June 5, 2003, at 17:47:03
I would think that being severely sleep deprived can cause psychosis, or perhaps more accurately psychosis symptoms.
I mean, there must be a reason sleep deprivation is used as an instrument of torture!
> Although I was a little offended to be prescribed an anti-psychotic because I didn't consider myself to be psychotic (which is untrue - later I found out that when I went to the ER during my panic attack, I told the doctor that I was so wound up because I had to shoot my dog. I've never shot my dog and I don't remember saying this), the Seroquel saved my life. I was able to calm down, start sleeping, and the panic attacks and horrible anxiety went away.
>
> Interestingly, although I've been diagnosed as
> bipolar, I was never prescribed another mood stabalizer after the Depakote. I did continue to have serious bouts of depression before I was started on Paxil, and occasionally I take 25 mg
> tabs of Seroquel for mania/anxiety (because of my drug abuse history, nobody will give me benzos)
> and it works quite well.
> -Gracie
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