Psychotic depression?

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Just wondering if anyone has experienced psychotic depression or depression with psychotic features and hearing things that are not there? Did it improve with time and meds? I posted a slightly similar thread not that long ago but still looking for reassurance as I'm really struggling just now.

I'm currently seeing a psychiatrist for this.

Thank you in advance.

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I had hypomania with psychotic features. Heard and saw things and had delusions. I started mood stabiliser and hypomania went away and so did psychotic features.

@undead thank you for your reply. Out of interest, may I ask what kind of things you were hearing? Today for example, I thought I heard a radio playing when no radio was playing

Thanks again!

I have psychotic episodes when I get bad, I hear people talking or whispering when nobodys there or see people out of the corner of my eye, again when nobody is actually there, I get very paranoid if i don't seek help quickly. It is usually in times of high stress or medication needing adjusting slightly but it does get better, maybe not overnight but it doesn't last.

@CinderellasSecrets thank you. May I ask what your diagnosis is and what meds you take? Do you find they help? My psychiatrist says I have severe depression. I just find it hard to comprehend that you can have psychotic features with depression.

My friend manages hers really well but has in the past had relapses when she has tried to come off her meds. I think she has now decided to stay on medication and has been well for four years.

Everyone is different though in how their body responds to medication and I don't think everyone has to stay on medication long term.

My friend says it takes a long time for her to feel fully recovered from the psychotic episodes.

I have borderline personality disorder, severe depression and anxiety. I didn't used to think depression would cause psychotic episodes too but it is scary what our brains can do when not well. I'm currently on 150mg of sertraline, but I've had citalopram and fluexotine in the past and my doctor is thinking about trying diazepam but I'm not sure I want that at the moment.

Oh and the sertraline is working ok at the minute, it isn't perfect my dose needs adjusting but I'm more stable than I was.

@CinderellasSecrets thank you. Glad you are feeling better than you were. I agree my psychotic episodes are really scary. I keep hearing weird things (giggling, a radio, strange noises). May I ask what you have experienced? Sorry for all the questions.

Unfortunately diazepam didn't agree with me, but I found lorazapam helpful when I was really anxious.

I mainly experienced people whispering around me, sometimes I thought someone was shouting at me from another room so it was shouting but muffled if that makes sense, and catching people out of the corner of my eye I felt like I was being followed constantly. I heard crying sometimes as well it was mainly hearing things that weren't there. It was really scary. I'm nervous to try new medication in case I have had side effects

@CinderellasSecrets I've heard all those things too and agree it's very scary. I'm terrified. I feel like I'm constantly listening and the noises get worse. I'm nervous to try new medication as well because of side effects. How long did you experience these things for? Did you hear these things during the day and night? I feel mine are on repeat and it's making me very anxious.

Thank you for you help btw. It's nice to know I'm not alone x

I get psychosis with depression. I have bipolar disorder. I believe I’m possessed by the devil. I get olfactory delusions and believe I can smell myself rotting. Horrible stuff.

@historyrocks that must be really scary. Do you take medication to help with your symptoms?

Just wondering if anyone else has heard noises/voices with their depression and anxiety? Hope I'm not alone in this.

I take Quetiapine, prochlorperazine, Lamotrgine, , carbamazepine, zopliclone and PRN lorazepam. A shed load of medication, but it doesn’t stop the episodes. However, the psychosis over the last year has been better than before. I think that’s related to starting the prochlorperazine. It was actually started for travel aickneas, but as it’s an antipsychotic it has also helped my mood. It goes to show how much getting the right medication is trial and error.

The bipolar started as PND after having DD2 in 2010. It morphed into bipolar over the first 6 months and it’s never gone away. Indeed, it’s got worse over the years. I didn’t get psychosis until DD2 was 15 months and it then got progressively worse so that I was in and out of hospital.

Thankfully, I haven’t had an admission for two years.

Missed out that I also take Agomelatine!

Do you take any medication?

@historyrocks thank you. I'm currently taking duloxetine and olanzipine but they don't seem to be helping at present. I see my psychiatrist later on today so will see what he says. X

Hope it went Ok today.

Still suffering. Hearing lots of random things but my psychiatrist just keeps telling me I have severe depression. Is anyone going through this right now? I would love to hear from you and to share experiences.

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I understand how scary everything must feel. I have a long history of depression and a couple of years ago suffered a severe psychotic episode. This was paranoia based and I was convinced I was being followed and that people were conspiring against me as they were convinced I was a bad person. I have no diagnosis other than depression and take 200mg Sertraline and 74mg Lurasidone. I think quetiapine worked better for my symptoms but left me too drowsy.

I do sometimes smell cigarette smoke, that when I ask others they can't smell and I also am having issues with spiders that I can see out the corners of my eyes but when I look directly there is nothing there. Only I know what is going through my brain and if I'm honest I don't share everything with my psychiatrist and CPN. I am aware they were considering schizophrenia as an alternative diagnosis but I think they are edging more to bipolar these days.

I really hope things get better for you!

@wigglywoowoo thank you. I hope you feel better too

Bipolar and schizophrenia here, I take 20mg olanzapine 5mg diazepam 2 mg daizapam 0.5 mg clonazepam 7.5mg zopiclone 100mg lamotrogene and 15mg mirtazapine.

Mild psychosis is seeing things in corner of the eye like spiders hearing low whispers can't quite make out what they are saying.Paranoid everyone is talking about me.

Moderate psychosis paranoid people want to rape me hearing voices telling me things like I was made to be raped. Seeing and feeling hands touching me.

Severe psychosis hearing god and believing I am a angel sent here with the strength to carry out my mission, god tells me my blood is poinsemed and every man that rapes me will be horrifically tortured during this life and the next. I hear all the time voices telling me to go get raped that they are coming for me and can't quite tell as my psychosis is so realistic whether I'm being raped when I go out or whether it's psychosis not knowing is just something I have to live with.

That is if I'm manic and bipolar

If I'm depressed and bipolar

Mild psychosis is the same paranoid people are going to hurt me hear whispers and see spiders

Moderate psychosis hear voices saying everything is my fault see images of things that have happened happen over and over again see the girl from the ring and the grim reaper constantly follows me around.

Severe psychosis hear the devil saying I was put here to be a play thing for rapists and peadophiles that they can smell me and I attract them as that is all I'm good for have vision of being psychotic ally raped (know this time it is psychosis as when depressed do not leave the house)

Schizophrenia mild- moderate paranoia feel people are watching me hear voices saying people are watching me people can see what I'm thinking if they look at my eyes so avoid eye contact.

Schizophrenia moderate to severe convinced police have maybe bugged my skin so start cutting away at it to get the bug out run away think police are following me and will section me where they will force me to take meds to stop me seeing the truth, hear voices telling me what I believe to be fore sight about what is going to happen before it does hear a voice describing every single thing my body is doing which is completely overwhelming just for example hearing the auditory process of how my lungs or heart work it incapacitated me. I go in and out of catotonia and when I try to speak my words come out wrong and I am convinced the government has altered my speech so I cannot tell people the truth I see auras around people which make me decide instantly whether they are good bad or a rapist or a wife beater.

At worst schizophrenic I hear something called command psychosis which is where I am given orders and I have to follow them I have no choice and luckily I don't experience that often.