Anti-depression and anxiety meds cause psychosis/madness

[devport]

Hello,
Whenever I take any psychiatric medications for my anxiety and depression I become mad in my head often. I've uncontrolled streams of thoughts whereby I visualise people talking to me and I feel every stimulus and person around me is trying to communicate to me (sometimes even trying to hit me). These medications seem to cause psychosis in me. All the psychiatrists I've consulted have told me that they haven't seen such medicinal side-effects in any of their patients. I don't know what's wrong with me and I'm wondering if I'm the only one affected in this way with these medicines. I've had this chaos in head on taking the following medicines (pretty much any medicine I've taken) :-

1) Valium
2) Clofranil
3)Risperidone
4)Haloparidol
5)Fluanxol

[compnet]

Very interesting study on PubMed.  It shows that those with mental conditions are low in magnesium compared to healthy subjects.  Once put on a pscyhotropic (antidepressent, antipsychotic, etc.), the magesium levels increase.  So the medicines increase magnesium, and good magnesium levels show a healthy clinical state.

"Interactions between magnesium and psychotropic drugs."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18705537

[compnet]

Great website I came across about all the possible causes of psychosis, including nutritional deficiencies:

http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-Causes-Psychosis.aspx

(News hyphen medical dot net slash health what hyphen causes hyphen psychosis dot aspx)

[Chrissylynn324]

i agree with them but instead of it being my mother, its happening to me.. by changing from one antidepressant to the other it can cause a manic mood to be accelerated.. i am bipolar and when my dr thought i was only depressed he prescribed me an antidepressant which only made the manic side 100 times worse.. one of the best things for us bipolars are anticonvulsants.. they dont know why but these seem to balance out the neurotransmitters in the brain for both the depressive and the manic moods.. you may want to talk to your psychiatrist about bipolar disorder.. good luck... =-)

[396SS]

Other than Valium, I don't recognize the other meds.  I know my mom is bipolar and she can start thinking several unrealistic things on these medications when she drinks with them.  Other than that, I wondered if you have tried the run of the mill anxiety meds, like celexa, cymbalta, zoloft, etc in low dosages?  I just know that they always overmedicate my mother because she can get pretty wild with her behavior, and then she's hopped up on these pills that make her worse!  Anyway, those are just some thoughts...hope you find an answer.  Also, are you going from one psych to the next?  Try to find one and stick with them if so, it's just better in the long run to establish a good relationship with them.  What about therapy?  Ok, I hope it helps:)