I was wondering if there any hope for someone who has a drug induced mental illness? my son's father was slipped something, shortly after he had a nervous/ mental break down. Its been about 13 yrs since then and he seemed to have come close to recovery and was near normal agian. Then about 2-3 yrs ago he had another break down and since then has not recovered. I was wondering if there is any treatment that could help him get back on track and if there was any statisics on the % of people who recover from drug induced mental illness. I know this maybe a long term thing but is there a possibilty he could get a little better? and how would the doctors treat his illness since in way not genetic but inquired from a poisoning.
2007-04-19 15:07:38 · 4 answers · asked by ginarose 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
he does not use drugs
2007-04-19 15:08:03 · update #1
and it isn't known what he was given
2007-04-19 15:18:55 · update #2
The source isn't as important. While there is drug induced psychosis, this is likely to happen over time and persistent use of a mind altering substance. (A one time "slipped drug" is unlikely to have such a profound effect.)
A mental health assessment is still possible to determine what diagnosis is given and then finding the most appropriate treatment for that diagnosis.
2007-04-19 16:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My apologies, but never in my life have I heard of .. 'drug induced mental illness'.
If you were to say he had serious problems and exposure to drugs sent him over the edge and he has not recovered fully recovered.. yeah.. I can understand that, kind of.
This happened 13 years ago.. and all of these questions are just coming up now?
There is a lot of information online about the various forms of mentall illness.. their signs and symptoms, and treatment alternatives are very well documented. But, it must be said that there is no cure and very little is known about what is the true cause for almost all of the mental afflictions. Stability through medications often takes years.
I don't think you will get much information on there that is factual.. and certainly you would be much better off doing your own research into this and leaving the treatment for the afflictions to those that are qualified.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/index.cfm
2007-04-19 15:30:19 · answer #2 · answered by lost_but_not_hopeless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What he mentioned is utterly fake. You can get well from this with out therapy, that is precise, however therapy has been identified to aid many. If you've gotten have depersonalization from despair, of direction your depersonalization will leave as soon as your despair is resolved with the aid of therapy. The most effective trouble is, you probably have depersonalization brought about via anxiousness, therapy will most of the time now not aid considering there are rather no identified medicinal drugs to aid with anxiousness (until you are taking benzos, however the ones are addictive and also you can not take them for the leisure of your existence). There is effexor, which is meant to aid despair in conjunction with anxiousness, nevertheless it does now not paintings for everybody. Therapy is rather the one approach to eliminate an anxiousness disease. But everybody is special. Work with a health care professional to uncover therapy that's correct for you. Who is aware of, a therapy would transparent it correct up.
2016-09-05 17:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What did the doctor think he was slipped?
2007-04-19 15:12:34 · answer #4 · answered by sliverofdignity 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋