Schizophrenic traits

[[Pr...]]

Does anyone else's withdrawal come off like schizophrenia? I even just got checked for tthis because I feel like I am. Ive just started my 7th month off cold t and I'm still paranoid. I thought this would go away by now. Ugh..

[[do...]]

Hi Prolove,

 

I think that benzo WD mimics some symptoms of of schizophrenia due to the combination of visual disturbances, brain fog and DR/DP. It scared me a lot during acute that there might be more wrong with me than just WD, but now that fear is only every once and a while. I remember during my tolerance days, I was even seen by an early psychosis doctor.

 

Here's an example. My eyes are so sensitive that looking at street lights leaves a temporary "burn image" in my vision for a few minutes. After a few minutes of it not going away, my brain begins to try and make sense out of it by attaching meaning or making shapes out of it. Then, of course, I panic! But, in the end, it was only the impression of a street light.

 

[[Be...]]

Yes, it, and a host of other DSM IV diseases. Be careful with letting them 'diagnose' you with something else and pull you into more drugs.

 

Once you are over withdrawal, and it may take a long time, then you can check for anything else.

 

[[do...]]

Yes, it, and a host of other DSM IV diseases. Be careful with letting them 'diagnose' you with something else and pull you into more drugs.

 

Once you are over withdrawal, and it may take a long time, then you can check for anything else.

 

Very true. I was seen in Early Psychosis. I was diagnosed with Major Depression, general anxiety, bipolar, borderline personality, among other things. It was all the benzos.

[[Do...]]

I read somewhere that the two most common misdiagnosed issues in regards to benzo withdrawal is being labeled bipolar and being labeled schizophrenic.  (Physical symptoms often get an MS diagnosis because the symptoms totally mirror one another (visual issues, cramps, spasms, muscle weakness, tinnitus, skin burning, etc).

 

 

[[Da...]]

The addiction agency who deal with my Subutex script are trying to make out all my physical sxs are actually a psych disorder, which in itself is mad, lol. I was expecting them to suggest MS when I tried to explain it to them, but it just got noted as 'perceptual distortions' and I got hard sold Seroquel, which I of course refused. They're there to get people OFF drugs, not offer them more. 

[[do...]]

The addiction agency who deal with my Subutex script are trying to make out all my physical sxs are actually a psych disorder, which in itself is mad, lol. I was expecting them to suggest MS when I tried to explain it to them, but it just got noted as 'perceptual distortions' and I got hard sold Seroquel, which I of course refused. They're there to get people OFF drugs, not offer them more.

 

Story of my life! 

[[Al...]]

I've experienced a schizophrenic episode years ago when on a powerful hallucinogen.

 

I experienced it a second time  a couple days after jumping off Ambien...

 

I wonder if this is something like one step below a seizure