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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 134850" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>All kinds of chronic or acute medical issues can cause psychosis. An infection, altered blood sugar, electrolyte imbalance, asthma attacks, and many many kinds of medications can also cause psychotic events. Steroids are notororius, which can be administered for so many problems, from pills for asthma, or auto immune illness to on the skin for a bug bite (or given other ways for bug bites, bee stings etc) and you can get steroid skin creams OTC. (Often called anti itch creams)</p><p>Psychosis can be ongoing, or can come and go in spurts. People can often cover up psychosis, intentionally or unintnetionally. Female hormones can also help create difficulties on some occasions....or a new medication or an old medication or a medication change...... </p><p>It can be dramatic, or non dramatic. </p><p>My husband exhibits constant non dramatic psychosis---will relay stories from his past he truly believes, but are not even close to the truth- such as how did we pick the names for our kids, to where we have lived to....well, all kinds of strange things. Unless you KNOW him REALLY well, and know the truth about what he is talking about, you would never suspect none of it is real. </p><p>We have lived in the same town, same house for 20 years. He gets lost sometimes makeing a short 2 mile trip he used to make 4 times daily. (I normally no longer let him drive) When asked what took him so long, sometimes he admits, he got lost, sometimes he lies and is unaware he is lying, he is simply supplying some answer to my question, and sometimes he admits- he got lost. </p><p>SOmetimes he accepts us letting him know he is haveing mixed up and wrong memories, sometimes he doesn't, and he can get pretty nasty and explosive sometimes if we point it out to him. </p><p>SOmetimes he is certain I am standing there screaming at him, even if I am in my room laying down, and we go running to see what and who he is yelling at-----and noone is there. </p><p>Other times long periods of time go by and he seems pretty much just fine. </p><p>Sometimes when questioned he can fabricate something so that it is hard to tell if he is being pyschotic or not. It is not always becuz he is trying to cover up his problem, somuch as he himself truly believed what he thought was real. </p><p></p><p>Then there is panic- fight or flight. SOme people have very mild intermittant anxiety..some have panic attacks, and it can be embarrrassing to admit you experience these, so you do your best to muddle thru. But for some people, it can go on into something far more dramatic and far more difficult to "cover up" When in the most extreme full blown fight or flight panic..people can do some strange and yes, dangerous things. Both me and my oldest child and my husband have experienced the most severe form of that..google fight or flight. It can come on very suddenly, be quite intense, and it can also go away rather quickly as well......an rear up another time. It can cause a person to become so out of touch with the here and now-----you cannot tell up from down, or anything. it can last mere moments or hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 134850, member: 1697"] All kinds of chronic or acute medical issues can cause psychosis. An infection, altered blood sugar, electrolyte imbalance, asthma attacks, and many many kinds of medications can also cause psychotic events. Steroids are notororius, which can be administered for so many problems, from pills for asthma, or auto immune illness to on the skin for a bug bite (or given other ways for bug bites, bee stings etc) and you can get steroid skin creams OTC. (Often called anti itch creams) Psychosis can be ongoing, or can come and go in spurts. People can often cover up psychosis, intentionally or unintnetionally. Female hormones can also help create difficulties on some occasions....or a new medication or an old medication or a medication change...... It can be dramatic, or non dramatic. My husband exhibits constant non dramatic psychosis---will relay stories from his past he truly believes, but are not even close to the truth- such as how did we pick the names for our kids, to where we have lived to....well, all kinds of strange things. Unless you KNOW him REALLY well, and know the truth about what he is talking about, you would never suspect none of it is real. We have lived in the same town, same house for 20 years. He gets lost sometimes makeing a short 2 mile trip he used to make 4 times daily. (I normally no longer let him drive) When asked what took him so long, sometimes he admits, he got lost, sometimes he lies and is unaware he is lying, he is simply supplying some answer to my question, and sometimes he admits- he got lost. SOmetimes he accepts us letting him know he is haveing mixed up and wrong memories, sometimes he doesn't, and he can get pretty nasty and explosive sometimes if we point it out to him. SOmetimes he is certain I am standing there screaming at him, even if I am in my room laying down, and we go running to see what and who he is yelling at-----and noone is there. Other times long periods of time go by and he seems pretty much just fine. Sometimes when questioned he can fabricate something so that it is hard to tell if he is being pyschotic or not. It is not always becuz he is trying to cover up his problem, somuch as he himself truly believed what he thought was real. Then there is panic- fight or flight. SOme people have very mild intermittant anxiety..some have panic attacks, and it can be embarrrassing to admit you experience these, so you do your best to muddle thru. But for some people, it can go on into something far more dramatic and far more difficult to "cover up" When in the most extreme full blown fight or flight panic..people can do some strange and yes, dangerous things. Both me and my oldest child and my husband have experienced the most severe form of that..google fight or flight. It can come on very suddenly, be quite intense, and it can also go away rather quickly as well......an rear up another time. It can cause a person to become so out of touch with the here and now-----you cannot tell up from down, or anything. it can last mere moments or hours. [/QUOTE]
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