I wear ear plugs during my sessions, but every once in awhile, my head will get so incredibly loud. Normally it is just music or whatever, but today it was screaming. Not pleasant. Has this happened to anyone else?
So ever since my dose increase (don't ask me what it is, I honestly have no idea haha) I have definitely been experiencing a k-hole sensation, but I don't feel as if I have disassociated.
Like I fully feel in my body (though I can not move at all), but I have no concept of the universe as we know it, of humanity. I wouldn't be able to tell you what a human even is. It feels as though I am thinking in another dimension.
That said, I never feel disconnected from my body.
Now, it doesn't really matter, but I am supposed to start a research study where I describe my experiences with disassociation during ketamine. I am hoping I can have better words to describe my experience prior to the interview.
Anyone relate to this?
I've had a bad history with psychiatrists. My current one is great, but I have actual trauma from some in my past. It makes it feel dangerous to even interact with someone from the profession.
I'd like to read stories about great psychiatrists as a way of training my brain that they aren't all horrible people
My family is basically one healthy and successful person after another. So nature is good.
My childhood was supportive and joyful, so nurture was good.
How the heck did I end up with Schizoaffective disorder?
Does anyone else relate?
I think the longest I have gone actually staying on medications is 2 years. I'm hoping to beat it this time around, but I can tell it will be tough.
My daughter used to be an avid reader, and she still is if she has a graphic novel. The problem is that she reads graphic novels in less than an hour, so I can't keep her endlessly supplied with them.
She hates novels, and now reading each night has become a fight because we don't currently have any new graphic novels.
I'm not sure if I'm being too much of a hard-a** or if my expectations are reasonable. How long does your child read each night?
Edited to add: it isn't the complexity of novels that is an issue. She is ten and tests far above grade level, could read before she turned 2. She just finds sticking with the novel over multiple days boring, when she can instead read a graphic novel in an hour. She does have ADHD so maybe that's an issue?
She has an ereader that allows her to get books out from the library, but she has read most of the ones that are available.
If the answer is that the medications treat the symptoms, how is that any different from medication for Bipolar or Schizophrenia?
Basically the question.
38F, Schizoaffective Bipolar type (currently euthymic), ADHD
I take Geodon, Lithium, Effexor and Dextroamphetamine plus some vitamins (B12, D).
I also have been taking Olanzapine PRN. It was given to me by my psychiatrist for breakthrough psychotic symptoms.
I have been dealing with a trauma for the last few years. I'm in therapy for it. Unfortunately, it hasn't helped decrease the emotional stress caused by the trauma. Sometimes the trauma causes severe insomnia, which hasn't been helped by therapeutic techniques, OTC sleeping pills, or Ativan (had some left over from a recent flight).
The Olanzapine does help though. Unfortunately, I'm down to one pill and I can't get in to see my psychiatrist or my family doctor for three weeks.
I'm thinking of going to a walk in clinic. What are the chances that a GP will prescribe Olanzapine PRN to a walk-in patient?
I may have to go to the CPSA regarding a physician. I have dealt with them once before, and I found the process absurdly unfair. I think maybe if I had legal representation, like the doctor did, I wouldn't have been so frustrated.
What kind of lawyer would I reach out to for this?
I'm just curious what your experiences have been as someone in the vulnerable position of the power differential.
A few years ago I had a physician write something horrific about me on a medicolegal document. There was no basis, but when I complained they made up reasons, and they were believed.
I've been in therapy focusing on CBT, mindfulness and ACT regularly since it happened. It hasn't helped at all.
I'm wondering if EMDR would help reduce the emotional intensity of the pain and shame of knowing that this statement is indefinitely on my record?
I'm seeing a new therapist. My last therapist and I worked together for ten years, but I had been struggling with a trauma for the last three years and decided I needed to see someone new.
New therapist is nice, has had some good exercises. But I haven't noticed any progress. It could totally be that the problem is just that sticky, or maybe the therapist isn't a good fit for me. I'm really not sure.
How long would you want a client to try to work with you before determining it isn't a good fit?
I've always had a tough time waking up in the morning. I have been tested for sleep apnea (negative) but really I've been like this since I was a young child.
Unfortunately, I've been having some sleep problems because of a trauma that happened a few years ago. I want to ask my psychiatrist for a sleeping pill but I don't want to make my wake-ups impossible.
Am I asking for a unicorn, or are there options out there?
I was hospitalized for a current problem I'm having (not psychiatric but resulting in psych symptoms) but the hospital was in the basement of a log cabin.
Does anyone else have odd hospitalization dreams?
When people have episodic disorders like Bipolar or even some presentations of schizophrenia (in terms of positive symptoms), how does that work with the MMPI? Is the person answering based on their current presentation, or do the questions allude to past experiences as well? Would someone with an episodic illness be flagged as answering inconsistently?
I'm diagnosed with Schizoaffective Bipolar type. I'm on Geodon and Lithium.
About a week ago, I was having this thing where when I looked at people, and sometimes pets, I would first see a demonic face. It only lasted a split second each time it happened.
It stopped after a few days or so. No change in circumstances or medication.
Would that be something that could typically happen in schizoaffective disorder? I feel like it sounds fake since it came and went so quickly, and I am concerned that if I tell my psychiatrist I will just sound like I'm malingering.
I had a psychiatrist write something about me that wasn't true. They said that what they wrote was based on me self harming at home and using drugs at home. Neither of these things are true. I have letters written by the three adult family members living with me at the time explaining how it would have been impossible for those things to occur given a myriad of factors.
I've been told that it doesn't matter what evidence I present, the psychiatrist will never make an amendment.
Is that true? Is requesting a correction just a waste of time?
If so, why is that? Isn't accuracy in a medical record more important than "being right"?
If not, is there anything I can do to raise the chances of this particular psychiatrist making the amendment?
I just read that medication non-compliance ranges from 23-68% in people with Bipolar. It was an old study though (2004) so who knows what the current numbers would be.
I'm curious what your feelings are about people who don't comply with treatment. Do you consider it irresponsible? Or do you think of it more like the fault of the disorder itself (eg. Agnosia)?
Do you think they have settled on guilty but not the degree? Do you think there are one or two people who are holding out? Are they just being very methodical?
I know it is impossible to know for sure, I'm just curious about your guesses.