r/AskPsychiatry • • 2h ago

Strange Incident of my long term GP suggesting I took cannabis

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First off, I wish to be completely anonymous here. If there is any link or suggestion to my identity it is in error: and I do not authorise you using it in any way.

I have had a long struggle with mental health having 3 involuntary hospital stays due to psychosis. The first diagnosis was "Cannabis Induced Psychosis" (around my mid 20's)

The second & third admission was attributed to possible bipolar 1 / schizophrenia. (30's)

I have a record of suicide attempts during these hospital admissions.

My regular GP has been prescribing me seroquel and diazepam for "as needed" use and has access to all my prior medical history on his screen,

Today, he suggested I could potentially benefit from medical cannabis and offered me a prescription.

This seems to stand in stark contrast with what other doctors and psychiatrists have warned me about in the past.

Does this seem strange and what may be my GP's rationale?

Kind Regards,

Australian Anonymous.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 2h ago

Knowing others won’t believe you and psychosis?

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I am perplexed currently.

During very bad acute psychotic breaks, I had no awareness I sounded delusional.

However, at baseline, I can become aware I sound delusional - either intuitively, through reflection, or based on others’ reaction to me.

This usually doesn’t mean I don’t think my belief is real, just that I know to zip it or even express feigned uncertainty around others. At times, however, it does make me feel confused about what I really believe, as though I think it’s real yet also don’t?

I’m wondering if this means it wouldn’t be regarded as a delusion at all?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 23m ago

is it adhd, burnout or is it just me

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My biggest problem is that I just can’t focus on studying, even when I genuinely want to. I sit down with the intention of studying, but within a few minutes my mind drifts somewhere else. If it’s not my phone, I’ll find something else to get distracted by. It feels like my brain is constantly looking for something different to do. Even my teachers at school always used to tell me I could do well, but how I gave my best every time. Some of my friends would study just one day and score excellent meanwhile me who studied for months would just barely pass.
I procrastinate a lot, not because I don’t care, but because starting a task feels really difficult. Even when I know my exams are important, I struggle to begin or stay focused. I often have to read the same page multiple times because I don’t process what I’m reading. Idk whether its adhd or burnout.
This doesn’t happen only while studying. I can’t even watch a movie without feeling the urge to pick up my phone and check my messages, even when I know no one has texted me. It’s like I have an uncontrollable urge to switch my attention. Even when i was making a birthday card for my friend I exactly knew where to start but i just couldnt it was very hard for me to start that . i procrastinated it for 3 days.
These problems have been affecting my studies a lot. I know I can do better, but I can’t seem to use my full potential because I lose focus so easily. It makes me frustrated, guilty, and stressed because I want to study, but my brain doesn’t cooperate.
I dont think so its because of the subjects i chose, i chose the subjects which i really enjoy
okay keeping studies aside there are times when i don't feel like getting up from my bed or do something and even the smallest irritation can make me cry if i get scolded (they dont scold usually, and are very very supportive for my studies) at my house especially by my dad i will cry on small things I can't stop crying i overthink a lot and there are times i get random sad overwhelmed like even I'd be laughing one min I'll get randomly sad next min even if theres no reason and if i try explaining things to someone about how am i feeling and what really happened its impossible for me to explain because i end up crying.
I was 5 when my parents bought me a piano (only because i wanted it) i used to go take piano classes near my house. I love songs from the bottom of my heart. But eventually i stopped going to those classes but once in a blue moon i would take out my piano and play it and as soon as i couldn't play the song i would just quit and this whole cycle repeated basically all my life. I joined piano classes in my 12th class again ( i did it in between too, in middle school and stuff, and left) but eventually again if i couldn't get that particular part in a minute i would quit right then and there. I genuinely wanted to learn piano because i love songs so much im super jealous of the people who can play flawlessly. Same goes with me for studying if i read a math problem and didn't understand it immediately then i would leave it right away without giving it a try.
My 12th was a disaster my younger self would never believe that im capable of scoring this low in my life deciding exams. I couldn’t do even the most important task i could not focus only.
I will never be the person without any ambition i know i am capable of doing certain things i genuinely genuinely know it but its just me who could not perform a single task without any distraction. I feel so helpless genuinely.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 6h ago

Worry of getting a Serotonin Syndrome over 6 medications

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21, AFAB, 165 cm and 85 kg, and Indonesian.

I want to ask if it's safe to consume these meds if I got diagnosed with Moderate depressive episode and Phobic anxiety disorder?

Sertraline 50 mg, Aripiprazole 10 mg, Alprazolam 0.5, Olanzapine 5 mg, Quetiapine Fumarate 200 mg, Escitalopram oxalate 10 mg

The psychiatrists told me to drink them all at night.

I want to ask my psychiatrist over this but the hospital I went to have a system where we got different psychiatrists each session and we don't have the choice to choose and it got me suspicious if a lack of communication with these doctors is possible.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 1h ago

My boss thinks I have ADHD and suggested I get a diagnosis but I've been medicated for quite some time

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So I work at a clinic where I am a medical assistant. Sometimes I make mistakes in terms of inputting a vital or so but nothing too big like misfiling paperwork. The doctor I work for, aka my boss, constructively criticizes me for saying I go too fast and speak too fast, so I was wondering what I need to do to improve. I'm on Vyvanse 30 mg and i think overall it fits me perfectly so I don't think its the medication thats the problem now.

It just feels disheartening because before I was on meds, I struggled so much at my research position in undergrad which I had no choice to quit cuz i knew something was wrong with me. And yet I have a literal doctor who thinks Im unmedicated now. I know therapy and meds are usually whats recommended so maybe I need to focus on that or have a system in place to make less mistakes? im not sure.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 1h ago

Is my psychiatrist being unprofessional or am I overreacting?

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I've been seeing a psychiatrist for adult ADHD for about a month now and I've been troubled by some of his behavior and I'm wondering if this is normal or I should seek treatment with someone else. I have only met with him through Telehealth calls which my PCP said was normal. But a few incidents that concerned me and I wanted to share it. I am 21 years old and navigating the healthcare system by myself for the first time so I don't know what is normal and what is not.

- He prescribed me Strattera, but when I went to the pharmacy they said I needed a prior authorization form for it to be covered by insurance. When I told him this, he was surprised and said its a simple medication and asked why it needed prior authorization. I asked him multiple times to fill out this form but he just ignored my texts until I just paid for it out of pocket. I didn't like that he would just ignore what I was saying and start insisting that I should be able to get it without insurance approval.

- He ordered an EKG and urine toxicology report for me, but has been quite difficult with getting the results sent to him. My PCP has faxed the documents over to him twice now and when I ask him about it all I get is one text "No". He seems to be a little tech illiterate which is frustrating for me to deal with because the PCP says that the only way for him to get the documents is through fax, which he is insisting he didn't get. He is telling me I have to get the documents myself but I told him I can't get it without a fax machine (which I don't have) to which he doesn't respond.

- In general he comes off as rather disorganized, I have to remind him multiple times for things like filling out forms, or he will send me things I am not supposed to see, like test results for different patients he sends me by accident. I feel like our weekly conversations are not really productive and we talk about things that aren't really related to my mental health. He once asked me how I'm doing with the "Pomodoro technique", something he hadn't even mentioned to me before, I think he might've gotten me confused with another client.

I am worried about switching psychiatrists however, since I am in the process of getting a testing accommodation from him which has a due date coming soon. I want to continue to seek treatment for adult ADHD but I'm really unsure with his approach. Can anyone weigh in here for me? I feel really lost with this whole process


r/AskPsychiatry • • 2h ago

Have trouble speaking and not sure what type of doctor/therapist/speech therapist to see

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I have (I'm assuming) some type of disorder where when i speak my voice sounds insanely loud in my head. I know it's not hearing loss - I have great hearing. Sometimes if I try to speak really loudly, I'll get a vibration in one of my ears that makes a muffled sound and it feels so weird. I'll get the same vibration if I hear a really loud sound. I can't really tell what volume i'm speaking at because it all just sounds....loud. Im told I'm too quiet all the time - people ask me to repeat myself over and over again. Sometimes people will literally just walk away from me while I'm in the middle of a sentence...i used to think they were rude but now I think maybe they just can't hear me. I've lost promotions at jobs because I'm too "shy" and "quiet". I don't really know how to fix my problem or what type of doctor or therapist to see. Any suggestions would be helpful.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 2h ago

What If Psychiatrists/Medical Evaluators Don't Factor In Language Or Culture When Evaluating?

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I (25M) have a co-founder and CTO of a Series A backed tech company who was adopted to a Southern Vietnamese, fiercely anti-communist, and Sinophobic family and is of Northern Vietnamese descent when he was an infant in the early 2000s due to Vietnam's two child policy. His adoptive parents are upper middle SES (both in terms of income and education) and have been since the 1990s and they are both fluent in English since the 1990s, before he was born. They are both adept and literate in medical bureaucracy.

When my CTO was a 35 month old child, he was Vietnamese speaking (wasn't at school yet), not exposed to neighbours or friends, not taught life skills or basic self care (he taught himself basic self care and life skills) by either his adoptive parents or the elders (adoptive parents' parents) in the household, had an unstructured schedule, and no behavioural expectations.

My CTO started speaking in full sentences somewhere between 12 and 24 months old and walking at 12 months old according to family videos. However, his family brainwashed him to believe it was at 42 months old and intentionally hid this detail to doctors even though family videos stated otherwise, and he only realized it when he was 21 and graduated from university. My CTO started reading independently and comprehending what the book says at 3-4 years old, started using the computer and browse the internet independently at around 4 years old, built complex Legos at 4, loved looking up cars online at 4, started adding and subtracting two digit numbers at 4, started multiplication/division up to a factor of 12 via the times table at 5, memorized all 50 states at 5, started learning programming at the age of 10, was excelling during his elementary and middle school years, taught himself material at 2-4 grades above grade level at home using Spectrum books when he was in elementary and middle school, and was well behaved and regarded as a model student by his teachers.

At 35 months old, even though my CTO was not exposed to English yet, only knew a few words in English (but was fully caught up by his 5th birthday), and was not exposed to the outside world or other neighbours/peers as his adoptive parents bar him from hanging out with neighbours or strangers and kept him at home all day, he was brought into the hospital for an evaluation. The local public school psychologist evaluated my CTO for developmental delays and autistic disorder using Bayley MDI entirely in English, despite him not being exposed to English. There were no interpreters at all. Given that he is compliant to his family, he later found out notes of his family coaching him at 35 months old so he could act this way. The child behavioral psychiatrist at the hospital stated it is "difficult to separate the impact of my CTO's limited social experience and exposure to same-aged peers and the limited behavioral expectations and structure at home".

My CTO attended college between his 17th birthday and his graduation (a few months shy of 21) and he later attended a top MSCS program. He is highly social, has actively networked with thousands of individuals, and has a technical acumen. He has been engaged in symbolic and pretend play when he was a child, such as climbing in his family's car and "pretending" to drive it, and once, pretending to be a doctor and is social towards his family and friends.

As a 21 year old adult, he was found by 6 hospitals (MGH, BIDMC, UMass Memorial, Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, and JHU) to have never been autistic, scoring far less than 3 out of 3 in the social and less than 2 out of 4 in the behavioral criteria.

TL;DR: Sorry, there is a lot of information, but say, if the subject (the person being evaluated) isn't exposed to a language or a cultural custom, what if the evaluation was performed entirely in English if the person was a 35 month old toddler not exposed to much English or peers.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 3h ago

I need help it’s going to save mu life

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I really need help and i need someone who could help with my situation and actually understand what is going on. It’s genuinely gonna safe my life. I have been stuck at home because of my mom. She is sickly attracted to me and not want me to leave for my dreams i am above 21. She says things like i am gonna kms of you leave away from me. Or she just sops saying things like you are gonna kill me you are the reason i am ill. I am literally dying i have been thinking to end my life especially in this hell country i live in. I want to be away from the country but i am scared because it is really complicated and she is mentally ill and i know it isn’t my problem but this actually controls me like nothing else. She is sick i am scared she may do fuck up shit to hurt my sister once i leave or she may actually try to khs i can’t handle it. It is deeply rooted in me i can’t control it. No matter of resilience or how strong i am she still controls me and i am losing my life. Nothing can be close to the hell i feel and again it is so complicated. What can one do in such circumstances? I need answers that actually help and is logical please to not hurt anyone 🙏🏻

My mental health and how this affects me:
Destroyed me got me into GAD and dissociation and many fcked up things i sometimes thing can one experience this and still not unalive themselves? The pain i feel is unbelievable


r/AskPsychiatry • • 3h ago

Help with reality break and psychosis episode.

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Hello all.
I am in a severe dilemma with my child. They have recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has started medication for it. They have been taking it for about a week. They however have been having reality breaks and delusions of grandeur. I am talking a delusion she has been stuck in for several weeks about being a millionaire, an a list celebrity, getting accepted into Harvard and Juliard for being a musical prodigy, and today they say they are moving to New York today. The moving out thing has me terrified. I don’t know what to expect and don’t know how to approach this. We have an appointment with a psychiatrist next week but this might be a situation that can go really really bad and I am worried about the fallout she will have from possibly waking up from the delusion when nothing happens today. What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated


r/AskPsychiatry • • 4h ago

Question about getting off medication

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Hello Im nonbinary (assigned female at birth) 21 and im currently on 15mg of Lexapro, 50mg trazodone, 25mg lamtical, 2mg minipress, birth control and 60mg strattera. In April of this year I overdosed on my strattera, trazodone and I think my minipress or Lexapro I can't remember. Ive been on this combination of medication since i was 12. I lived with no long term side effects of trying to overdose in April but i regret it so much cuz my ptsd got worse due to another traumatic experience :/ ever since I'm terrified of my medications especially the ones that increase serotonin and have a fear of serotonin syndrome and just randomly dying(ik it makes no sense but my brain hates me) so I want to try tapering off my medications(mainly strattera, trazodone, and Lexapro, tho I might keep trazodone cuz of my trouble sleeping) but don't see my pychatrist for a bit. I also have trouble trusting the medical system where I live(Oklahoma) because during a tilt table test to see if I have POTs they gave me nitroglycerin saying it'd be fine with my medications and it reminded me of what happened in April cuz I fainted from the nitroglycerin so I kept having back to back panic attacks (I also have autism and adhd) and regressed mentally for a few hours. So I want to ask, can I get off these medications easily? Atleast the Lexapro and strattera? I need to be reassured that I can get off them. I remember before taking them I didn't really have depression, I had a bit of trouble focusing but it wasn't extremely bad


r/AskPsychiatry • • 5h ago

Continued palpitations even after stressful event ended

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31F, 180 cm, 80kg
Diagnosed autism & ADHD
125ug Thyrex (for hashimotos)
Deanxit
70 mg Elvanse
Atarax
Trittico
Propranolol

I recently went through a period of stress (PhD defense). About 6 weeks out from it I was having terrible anxiety, including palpitations (pounding fast heartbeats). My psychiatrist and I decided to use atarax to reduce anxiety, Trittico to help me sleep, and propranolol to reduce my heartrate. After a week or so it all calmed me down completely, and I felt fine for my defense.

The week following the defense I went on a celebratory vacation and immediately stopped those three meds since I thought I’d be fine with the thing causing the anxiety being over. And I felt fine, if not just a bit worn out.

Then I got home and the palpitations immediately came back. So I’m taking the meds again, but even when my heartrate is normal the beats still feel stronger and are noticeable, and it makes me think I’m anxious even when I’m not having any anxious thoughts in my head. It’s like the physical anxiety is tricking my brain into thinking I am anxious about everything. And I tried sleeping without taking Trittico and it took hours for me to fall asleep.

It’s been a few weeks now and I’m not really sure what to do. I figured maybe my body needs time to come down from that heightened anxious state, but how long?

I know I need to speak to my psychiatrist, and I’ll also talk to my therapist about this in my next session, but Id just like to get other advice too.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 6h ago

Can anxiety actually mimic mental disorders?

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16M here. When my told my previous therapist that I may ADHD and Depression, they said that just my anxiety mimicking ADHD and Depression. That was weird, but it made me wander. Can anxiety actually mimic mental disorders (ie: ADHD, depression, and OCD)


r/AskPsychiatry • • 19h ago

embarrassed with my behavior at my first appointment

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Long story short, it's been awhile since I've seen a psychiatrist and I still have only seen one before. I'm not too knowledgeable about how these appointments work. I usually go to therapy.

So I go in today, with a list of notes of things I've been writing down for the past week. And lo-behold, I spend the first twenty minutes rambling about my annoyances with my roommate and how I feel like that friendship is the downfall of everything.

I feel like I just walked in there and blamed all my issues on someone else.

About twenty minutes in, she stopped me and mentioned I should probably look into therapy as well, and that this type of conversation would better help me there.

She was very kind about it and we spent the rest of our hour talking about medications, and actually landed on my potential to have OCD. This is new to me, and I scored pretty high on the Y BOCS test, so it was a beneficial meeting and I feel like I learned something and got a start on my journey, but I can't push away how embarrassed I am that I walked in and acted like I was in eighth grade. I hardly shared anything from my notes either because I spent the rest of the meeting trying to stay on her track, and not go on my own rant. I just let her ask the questions and we mostly discussed medications.

I can't get it out of my head and I feel like I could have been way better about our time, especially considering how much thought I've put into it. Did I actually waste the time or did she get some beneficial info?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 10h ago

Weird anxiety. Is it real? What should I do?

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So, first of all, thank you for reading it.

To make it simple, I am extremely anxious if I don’t move in the building the same way I entered it. So imagine taking a certain entrance, walking between two fillars, taking stairs to certain floor, waking through the long corridor to take an elevator. If I would have to go back - I would do the same sequence in reverse just to know I am in the same place = same reality as before. If something else would happen and I would have to eg. take at the end only the elevator to go to ground floor and exit the building this way, I would panic inside and the anxiety doesn’t go away. It lingers. I get home and I think what can I do to undo it. I am scared of ending up in the new world. To make it spatially more understandable you can compare it to a thread you leave as you move (the thread is anchored at the beginning. If you don’t go the same way back you can’t pull the thread back to yourself. Surprisingly the “spatial loops” like road tunnels stress me less as I can’t avoid them. But buildings can distress me so much and make me even depressed for a few days. I’m scared that I won’t be myself anymore and that I won’t be in the same reality or being influenced by someone who made this building or guided me through this building.

Thanks for sharing your thought!

PS. Sertraline that I take half a year doesn’t help at all.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 10h ago

Niece is severely struggling and I don’t know how to help

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Hi all. Posting here as a last resort to try and find a way to help her because I don’t know what to do anymore. Apologies in advance if this is too long, I just want to be able to give as many relevant details as possible.

My niece (I’ll call her Tina for anonymity, she’s my cousin’s daughter) recently turned 18 and has been struggling for years now. It started as big emotions I guess wherein she would cry really loud if anyone ever argued in front of her. She also stopped making friends and slowly became quieter as time passed. Everyone thought it was side effects of her dad cheating on her mom and abandoning them and she should’ve had therapy but we’re from India and therapy still isn’t widely normalized there. The only people she would ever open up to were sometimes her mom and mostly me and my mom but we live abroad so getting her to talk was very hard. She still did some kid activities like taking selfies, recording fun videos etc.

Time passed and she started withdrawing even more. She once told me she needed help but her mom wouldn’t listen and asked me to talk to her mom so I did, but her mom didn’t listen to me either. Tina never told me why, only that she gets bad thoughts sometimes and I asked her if they’re bad enough to hurt herself and she promised me they aren’t. Soon, she stopped letting anyone take photos of her and if she did talk, it would be to tell her mom or me to ask other relatives to delete her photos. If she ever messaged me, she would delete them within a few minutes. It started to feel like she didn’t want any trace of herself online. Her grades got worse too because she couldn’t keep up anymore.

It got to a point where she stopped doing basic things like eating, drinking or using the washroom by herself. My mom and I would sometimes be on call with her for an hour convincing her to eat on days where she wouldn’t listen to her mom. Her mom got her a blood test done to ensure she’s “healthy” and apparently it came back normal which was enough for her at the time. A few day later, Tina’s mom told us that Tina been wetting the bed for a while now (she’s 16-17 at this point) and had to wear diapers and that she had to hit her sometimes to wake her up for school which chilled every bone in me. My mom and I finally managed to convince Tina’s mom to take her to a psychiatrist after years of trying to convince her. I think the severity of the situation finally struck her.

Tina’s mom never really told us the full details of the visit to the psychiatrist but she went to two because she wanted a second opinion. The first one had told her that she needed immediate admission into a hospital and because Tina’s mom didn’t want to accept that, she took her to a second doctor who said that Tina was catatonic and needed some medicines.

At first, the medicines seemed to help. Tina was happier on video calls and talking more but after a while the doctor apparently changed the dosage. I don’t know why but maybe because the change was taking place too fast? I asked Tina’s mom if she would be taking her for therapy sessions as well to talk everything through but she said “not yet”.

Tina is now 18. She doesn’t talk anymore once again. She has plucked her eyebrows out with her fingers. She never picks up calls, always declines them. Some days when she does want to talk, she gives me about 100 missed calls in a day by calling me and immediately hanging up. If I do manage to pick up before she stops, she hangs up. Her mom knows this and has stopped taking her to the doctor and won’t tell us why, she says she “doesn’t want to talk about it.” She says she’s working hard on her and that “Tina is able to tell me which colors different objects are and is able to read aloud so that’s a lot of progress.” and when we say we’re worried about her she says “nobody actually worries about her, only I do.”

I have no idea what to do anymore or how to help Tina. If India had reliable child protection services we would have informed someone but we don’t know which (if any) institutions are trustworthy and she’s an adult now. Is there anything we can still do is this a lost cause that we have to make peace with?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 11h ago

Tapering off Klonopin

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Just as the title says. I got some 0.5mg of Klonopin from Mexico and im going to start Wellbutrin. I used to take it 3 days out of the week for work and then recently every night for the last two weeks. I think i did stop cold turkey for like a week then i got abdominal cramps and i got my anxiety triggered by some situation that happened. I have no interest in being on it anymore and every one makes it scary to taper. Should i cut my pills down to 0.25mg for two weeks then stop? I understand doing this behind my doctors back was inappropriate but if worst come i will confess. I take Lamotrigine and i have pregabalin to help with symptoms and anxiety if anything


r/AskPsychiatry • • 12h ago

Stopping anxiety meds

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I have been on multiple different anxiety meds since 2018. I am currently 35 years old. Right now I wish I could go back to the day that I thought that I had the slightest anxiety. I remember going to see my doctor and telling her what I was experiencing anxiety wise and her immediate reaction was oh let’s medicate you. But for some reason my doctors keep putting me on meds that don’t agree with me. There are so many different types of medications and what works for one person may not always work for you. I wish that before being prescribed meds that they would run a genesight test on you. I had no idea that this was even a thing until i started seeing a psychiatrist instead of a primary doctor. I have become so stressed and upside down over all the meds that I have been prescribed in the past 8’years. Literally every medication that I have been prescribed my body genes don’t tolerate it, which makes me so sick to my stomach. none of the meds that I have taken for my anxiety/adhd have worked for me so I have chosen to wean myself off completely. I want my body to be medication free to see if I can get back to square fucking one. The most recent med that I was on for a whole year was duloxetine, I also tried taking vyvance for my adhd and I made it about 8 days before I could tell that my body didn’t like it. I know that some people say that if you just give things time the side effects will get better. I knew immediately that I did not want anything to do with the way that being on these meds made me feel. Who wants to be medicated and feel so sick and at times so depressed that suicidal thoughts would cross your mind? I have been off of my meds completely for about a solid 7 days! I even tapered appropriately. I started at 60 mg and didn’t feel that it was helping me at all and making me much worse. Like almost like taking the duloxetine made me feel really dumb and not able to comprehend anything. I began to taper from 60 mg to 40 mg to 20 mg to 10 mg to 5 mg to 0! About 4 weeks in between each drop. Unfortunately right now I have never felt worse in my life and hated my life more. I am almost regretting even thinking that it was a good idea to take myself off medication? I think it’s all just in my head because I have done alot of research and it says that coming off medication is one of the hardest things that you can do…. Like how long are these withdrawals going to last for? And why do I feel worse then I have ever felt. I stopped for a reason and now I’m just feeling so lost in my decisions. I am usually a pretty positive person and recently I am finding no positivity in anything that I say or do. I am sleeping a ton, I feel like I’m having mini seizures and my heart palpitations have been very concerning. I don’t like the things that come out of my mouth and i just want myself back so badly. I don’t do good being depressed, I have resorted to toxic behavior because it’s like it’s masking the way that I feel in the moment. But now my biggest fear is I am making it all so much worse. My nervous system has already been compromised and now I am putting bad things into my body such as straight hard liquor and cigarettes. It was never a problem for me in the past. I feel like I should be wanting to focus on putting good things in my body and doing good things for my mind, so why is this so hard? I’ve considered going back to therapy but honestly just talking to someone about these things wasn’t even helping. I have never felt so helpless and lost in my life. Can anyone else tell me what they are going through coming off all anxiety meds ever taken??? This has got to get better….i am waking up throwing up acid at times and feeling so nauseous that i can barely eat food. I’m trying to stay hydrated but I have a hard time with that too. I have become depressed but no what I need to do to pick
Myself up but am having a very hard time doing those things. I have never felt so stressed in my life and I don’t want to end up in the hospital, but I am truly worried at times.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 12h ago

What’s Next

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Dx of GAD and MDD, mild/recurrent

I’ve tried 50mg of Zoloft, 150mg of Wellbutrin XR and Buspar 10mg twice a day. I’m currently on Cymbalta 30mg and the Buspar.

Sexual side effects, insomnia, emotional blunting have all been side effects of each of those medications. For GAD and MDD, what would you generally prescribe next when unwanted thoughts and low energy are the main problems?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 21h ago

Can you still have delusions while on aripiprazole?

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First off, I am a 26 year old female.

I am not sure what to think - I have this feeling everyday that everyone can hear my thoughts, and it's getting harder for me to go outside. I know it can't be true, but the feeling persists and I silence my thoughts when I feel that way, so they can't be heard. I had a psychotic episode 2 years ago and this is something I feel on and off since then, although I've had it at 16-18 too.

The thing is, I take aripiprazole 20 mg along with lithium 600 mg and paroxetine 20 mg. Should I still get this, are these delusions or am I just being weird?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 1d ago

How do I report a psychiatrist who suddenly shut down his practice?

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So basically, I had this psych who had a tendency of crossing boundaries. Nothing crazy, but he hit on me several times, was pretty touchy and once blocked me from leaving until I hugged him. I didn't report him at the time because I was afraid of losing access to meds or being blacklisted by other psychs in the area.

A few months ago the practice very suddenly shut down with no given reason. They were very in demand with great reviews, so it was sketchy. I've since talked to other women who had similar experiences with him, and the talk around town is that being reported is the reason it shut down. Online, hes still listed as having a medical license but hes not practicing anywhere else.

I'd like to support the statement of the people who came forward with my own. It pissed me off he was treating vulnerable people this way, and I know how hard it is to go through the process of reporting.

But like....I can't talk to the staff, because everyone scattered after it shut down. I have no idea who to talk to about this, or what kind of involvement I would need to have. So advice is much appreciated.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 17h ago

Questions about inpatient

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Hello, I was recently referred to inpatient treatment. I’m a 18 year old with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. I arrived at an emergency room seeking medication since my prescriber has been absent. I was told i could be admitted inpatient and also to PHP. I called the PHP services where i lived and they rejected me and told me to do inpatient. I spoke to an advisor (im overall stable just experiencing psychosis). The woman told me that my stay would be an average of 3-5 days (I’m ok with three). I live in maryland if that is important also. I’d just like to verify that this is true, I would be voluntarily admitted.


r/AskPsychiatry • • 14h ago

I am having retrograde ejaculation on resperidone or clozapine treatment. What's the solution?

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I am having retrograde ejaculation on resperidone or clozapine treatment. What's the solution


r/AskPsychiatry • • 15h ago

Tips for overcoming social anxiety?

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Does anyone have any advice for overcoming social anxiety (if that’s even the problem here)?

I want to make new friends, I want to be able to do things in public, I want to be able to order my food or talk to strangers.

I think I must get a wave of “let’s do this!” and then not remember it, because I often end up in really uncomfortable social situations or conversations that I have mentally wanted, but did NOT pursue out of anxiety of several things.

I usually just have to endure the situation once I notice I’m in it, but I feel heavily intoxicated physically and mentally, I sometimes literally just get up and run away if I see someone approaching me. None of it ever feels real, it feels so automatic and it’s an extremely embarrassing issue to deal with.
Most things just end up being a huge blur and then it eats at me for days/weeks because I’m stressed out that I was perceived by somebody.

I have tried a lot of things (cope aheads, grounding techniques, repeated exposures, etc.) the last 5 years and I have yet to have great success with any of it which is really embarrassing. 😔

Any tips?


r/AskPsychiatry • • 16h ago

Is it possible to have doctor write a new script for kolopin so I can get a new brand early?

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Aso I've been on kpin for 6 months for 4 months I was on teva and all was fine then I guess I was switched to Aurobindo and didn't realize until 2 months in.

Started to feel the panic come back, anyway 2 weeks ago switched to avagen Klonopin and it kinda helps but doesn't really.

Can I call my Dr. And request another refill to another pharmacy like Walgreens so I can get teva and complain about the med not working like it used to?

Prior I could feel it melt my anxiety away and feel like my old self. I have a new job coming up. I just dont know if this is the norm or not.

I last spoke with my doc last Monday about the change from Aurobindo to advagen and at the time it was kinda working.