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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?
Posted by Ritch on April 16, 2005, at 11:04:53
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?
>
That sounds more like bipolar mixed state symptoms to me. I've never had any hallucinations (that weren't med induced anyhow), but I've talked to a couple of people with BPI and they told me about having some hallucinations, mostly visual ones from what I remember. Lots of stress can worsen bipolar symptoms that's for sure.
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
Posted by B2chica on April 18, 2005, at 10:34:51
In reply to Re: Anxiety with psychotic features?? » B2chica, posted by temoigneur on April 17, 2005, at 1:16:36
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