Self Caring with Sz

Hi Everybody,

I have lived with medication for Sz for over 30 years now and looking back I think I most likely had mental health issues from about the age of 15 or 16, at least in the last two years of high school you could say I was depressed somewhat. The depression continued after high school until by the time I was 19 or 20 I had a psychotic episode for which I sought no treatment because I was ignorant and thought that I would be just locked up and the key thrown away???? At the age of about 23 I had another psychotic episode and this time felt compelled to commit myself to a public psych hospital in Sydney since it was the ANZAC Day long weekend and no private psychiatrists offices were open. Had it been a weekday and I had been able to see a private psychiatrist, I might not have needed to be admitted to a psych hospital at all. I was initially overmedicated in psych hospital as seems to be standard practice on first admission to a psych facility. Within a day or two I had a severe dystonic reaction in my neck muscles on one side and couldn't straighten my head up, it was just locked over on one side. The doctor on call gave me an injection of an anti-cholinergic drug and the dystonic reaction cleared up in about 5 minutes and they also reduced my dosage of anti-psychotic drug at the same time. I went into psych hospital on the Saturday after ANZAC Day and was released the following Wednesday although I was still a bit psychotic and delusional but since I had been a voluntary admission, they couldn't detain me if I simply wanted to go home. I'll continue this story if there are positive replies and people express an interest in me continuing my story, Bye for now!!!!