People with psychotic depression and schizophrenia may also develop such delusions, he said.

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According to press accounts of the congressional briefings presented in recent days by a 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (who has served for the past three years as its senior national intelligence officer for Latin America), Aristide takes medicine to treat "psychotic manic depression" which can have such symptoms as suicidal tendencies, delusions of persecution and hallucinations.

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For example, one home made no plans to monitor a patient's use of two anti-psychotic drugs and one depression medication, even though the drugs could have serious side effects.

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Defense attorneys point to Yates' troubling history with postpartum depression, suicide attempts and psychotic behavior.

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Since 1988, however, the drug carries a label warning that it could have dangerous side effects such as depression, suicide attempts and psychotic episodes.

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But schizophrenics also suffer from depression and an inability to feel emotion--symptoms that existing anti-psychotic drugs don't treat.

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It has been publicly reported, however, that U.S. intelligence believes Aristide to be a clinical psychotic, an individual who is sufficiently mentally unstable as to require medication and institutional treatment for depression and megalomania.

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