Delusions = Psychosis?

Question

I was recently having bizzare thought and beliefs of a paranoid nature, after counselling and seeing a psychiatrist i was on respiridone.

Does this mean that i was/am Psychotic?

Answer 1

Those fancy mere explode provisionally! You say ones is phantasmagoric= Completely true psychosis.                                Probably ought to come to infirmary perused. Later treatment is better

Answer 2

Yes I would say you were psychotic,but respiridone is a very good drug for controlling this.I had this medication for psychosis.Your symptoms shouldn't get any worse now and you will not always be psychotic.Keep taking you medicaton.

Answer 3

yea maybe but you will have to ask them your meds are for psychosis

Answer 4

Yes it does mean that ur psychotic but its no big deal, If your sane on the drugs it doesnt matter.

Btw from my known experience i would say respiridone is a bad drug and u should try Effexor - XR its much better

Answer 5

Yes, you were/are psychotic.

Wikipedia says:

"Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from it are said to be psychotic.

People experiencing psychosis may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs, and may exhibit personality changes and disorganized thinking."

Good luck.

Answer 6

who cares? as long as the respiridone helps, who cares? a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...  

Answer 7

Respiridone is an anti-psychotic medication.  It does not mean that you are psychotic and always will be, at one point before you may have experienced a psychotic episode and this is the reason why you have been prescribed this medication.  Always keep your outpatient appts with your Consultant psychiatrist, he/she will continue to monitor your mental health and if you continue to remain stable then them may look at starting to reduce your medication onto something lesser like an anti-depressant but be patient this could be within years not months.  I had a friend who suffered a psychotic episode, she was stable and medication was slowly reduced, this resulted in another psychotic episode and again back on the medication for a number of years, now she is medication free and symptom free and has been for 6 years, now married with 2 children. Life can go on as normal after mental illness best advice i can give you is to work with the services and your care package in place and dont try and fight it, accept you illness and try and move on from this.  

Answer 8

I take Risperdal too for Tourette's and paranoia. Works very well for the Tourette's and helps with the paranoia.