what to do if you're suffering from psychosis?

Question

My friend is suffering from puerperal psychosis and has been prescribed some drug. Is that all they will do?

Answer 1

Psychosis: Get evaluation by a psychiatrist to determine the cause & treat that.

Answer 2

Antipsychotics: Sometimes, antipsychotics make the person being treated more emotional, but the majority of the time, they help the situation. If the antipsychotics are making things worse, the treatment regimen should be re-evaluated to determine if another class of medication would be appropriate.

Answer 3

Not often: They tend to do the opposite: restrict excessive range of emotions. Hence, they are often used to stabilize moods and inhibit aggression.

Answer 4

They treat symptoms.: There are no disease modifying medications for alzheimer's. Atypical or newer antipsychotic medications help with delusions, paranoia, suspicousness, fearfulness and the behaviors these symptoms cause. The older antipsychotics also help but have far more side effects. There is some evidence that antipsychotics increase the risk of stroke, heart attack or death but they do help quality of life.

Answer 5

Individualize care: The decision to use any medication for any symptom or illness involves a careful consideration of the risks and benefits for each individual. When someone has a progressive fatal illness, most people want to maximize quality of life and decrease stress and distress as much as possible. Antipsychotic medications are not a panacea and help only psychosis and aggressive symptoms, not other symptoms.

Answer 6

Yes: Although less common than depression in the first 6 months following stroke, "post-stroke psychotic disorder" may include delusions, hallucinations (which may affect various sensory modalities; auditory and visual hallucinations are the most common), ideas of reference, and disorganization of thought.

Answer 7

Stroke/Psychosis: Depends on extent & location of the stroke.

Answer 8

See answer: For these medicines to work well you have to take them every day. Your condition is like someone who has high blood pressure or diabetes, they need to take their meds everyday . Yours is not like a mild case of asthma where you could just take meds as needed. Taking meds everyday will hopefully reduce the the amount of time you spend in serious suffering. This is again like a diabetic patient.

Answer 9

Not a good idea: Unfortunately, taking meds only when you are "really suffering" won't work. Here's why: 1. Taking them in this way is likely to make psychosis more frequent and worse. You need a steady level in your blood for them to be effective. 2. Over time, going off/on meds can make them less effective. 3. Left untreated, psychosis can hurt the brain, even cause permanent changes to the brain structure.

Answer 10

Psychosis: Psychosis is loss of touch with reality. It may occur with patients who have schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mania, severe depression, schizophreniform disorder, brief reactive psychosis or certain personality disorders. Medical causes of psychosis can include dementia, drug or alcohol intoxication or withdrawal, brain tumors, medication side effects (such as steroids) or stroke.>>>.

Answer 11

By your symptoms.: The most common symptoms are hallucinations ( auditory, visual, smell, taste, touch), delusions ( feeling that people are out to get you or scheming against you, feeling that the tv or radio are talking about you, feeling that people can insert thoughts magically into your mind or steal thoughts from your mind, and hearing your own thoughts spoken aloud outside your mind.) these are. Often accompanied by changes in mood personality and behavior.

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