Posted by utopizen on September 30, 2004, at 13:21:06
In reply to Re: Amphetamine Psychosis: utopizen, posted by paulbwell on September 30, 2004, at 11:35:38
> Hey Uto,
> I enjoy your posts, but answer me this,
>
> 1. if you had Amphetamine Psychosis, how on earth did you get put on Desoxyn (methamphetamine) The most potent and notorious Amphetamine there is?
>
> Cheerswell, I'm not sure if it was amphetamine psychosis, but because my ADD is so bad that when I meet with doctors I often look off suddenly to the distance, they suspect I am hearing "voices." I've never heard "voices" in my life.
what did happen was me being upset with my doc because I wanted an antipsychotic for my social anxiety on top of my klonopin and he wouldn't give me on, so I was so irritable I slammed the door. It was a doc located at an outpatient wing of the hospital, so I decided to check myself into the in-patient clinic because I was shocked I did such a thing.
But I did talk excessively at the time, and um, I don't know. Whatever it was, it was a negative reaction to the stimulants, which my psychiatrist at the hospital wrote down on my release paper. He just entertained the idea of amphetamine psychosis to me, but I refuted it with saying "amphetamine psychosis is clinically indistinguishable from schitzophrenia."
But a negative reaction to a stimulant is worthy of seeking help, in any case. I'm not psychotic on the stuff, it's just that it antagonized existing life cicrumstances (school, incompletes) that made me feel hopeless and depressed and anxious. I've cleared things up, and am recovering steadily from my depression, and in a couple of weeks will be going on Klonopin again.
To geno: I strongly advise talking with your doc about Klonopin. It's great to combine with stimulants to control your worries and helps you out while you're trying to find more relief from an antidepressant.
A lot of us, obviously, are obsessive over our mental illnesses. Klonopin helps us tremendously with letting us cope with things, and not trying to feveriously research on hopes that we'll find a "cure." No cure awaits you, but relief is possible.
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