The Other Side of Psychosis

Hi there,
I love way of thinking from dr Ferati. I wish to contact him and talk about my son's problem. If it possible to have his contact details?
PS. Chris, you doing great job.

I'm really in a predicament. I had ADHD as a child. I was given a myriad of medications at only five years of age that caused psychotic symptoms. My parents were amidst a divorce and didn't know how to distinguish this from an average hormonal teenage boy. They sent me to special schools where I was bullied. My psychosis was fueled by marijuana at 17 but I felt so good that I continued to smoke through the symptoms and consequences of mental illness. I am now 26 with no sense of identity and no education. I know I have very few prospects and am not able to hold conversations with people. I have violent thoughts now but would not want to hurt anybody except myself. If I ended up in jail, I'd be killed instantly anyways. I am the meekest man you can imagine. I get treated with zero respect by everyone I meet. There is no hope for me. Assisted suicide should be available to the mentally Ill so crimes don't have to be comitted to get us the death penalty.

I enjoyed reading your blog. I have had psychosis off and on for years. I have made the choice to give up the meds now as didn't feel they were working and yet I was getting all the side effects.
It's a scary place to be and to try and describe it to others when you haven't a clue what's really going in or who you can trust is frightening.
I have depression as well on and off so that doesn't help either.
I'd love this to go one day as quick as it came!
Any advice from anyone about how to live without meds would be really helpful.

But is there a medication treatment for psychosis? My 16 year old needs help and the doctors are not taking him seriously. They are just sedating him with high doses of seroquel XR. He is already on Effexor for anxiety and Vyvanse for ADHD. Help. Some of these drugs can cause psychosis, can they not? No one is taking us seriously.

Thanks for your thoughts on this topic which is too close to my heart right now. I was in a terrible psychosis in April and was banished from the barn where my dear horse, Jack, was stabled. He was truly my therapist and my best friend on earth. (my dysphoric mania started when he was injured) I had paranoid delusions and did raise my voice at someone but was never and never have been violent. I had premonitions about a barn fire and three days after I was banished, the barn and all the dear horses including my beloved Jack perished. I was accused by the owner and later cleared by the investigators, but the lies went viral and many still believe them. It has been so horrible to lose Jack and then to have others believe that I did such a heinous thing has been beyond devastating. My psychiatrist wants me to get another horse because he says he has never seen me do as well as I did when Jack was in my life. There is no replacing Jack; there just isn't and also the rumors are still so thick that I can hardly face even trying to have another horse--or more to the point, being around people who could stigmatize me. I just feel so shattered and so, yes, stigma is very real. Thank you again.

Once more an original description of psychosis as serious and frightening mental disorder, Mr Curry. In this case, I would to stress the fact that psychotic disorder exhibits the beast side of human mind that in disguise form all mentally heath people performed it through daily activities. Besides this conclusion, it ought to add the necessity of systematic exploration of disarrangement mind of any psychotic patient, in order to improve antisocial conduction as most moody danger to mankind. Indeed, each person has got the aggressive drivers, which ones along psycho-social maturation of respective person soften, in accordance to socio-cultural deeds to concrete social milieu. But in this complex process of maturity and development of personality occur different abnormality that cause many interpersonal contradictions and conflicts as well. Mostly of these abnormalities are of psychotic nature, such are the feeling of mistrust, disobedience, doubtful,hatred, hostility and so on. The same should to sublimate in positive and social acceptable feelings, in order to increase the understandings between peoples as respectable members of every community. Otherwise, we would continued to live in the world overloaded with misunderstandings, oppositeness and hostility between people and nations.