Chlorprozamine, a drug used to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, was found to work.
Fortunately medicines that work on psychotic symptoms from an illness such as schizophrenia also work for psychotic symptoms arising from brain trauma.
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It is also very unusual for children to develop clear-cut psychotic symptoms.
Of the problem you list, the two I worry about most as a psychiatrist are the suicidal thoughts and the psychotic symptoms (i.e. hearing voices).
Generally, people who have the condition experience psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, disorganized thinking and paranoid thoughts as well as a mood disturbance, such as depressed or manic mood.
The team discovered that in fact the marijuana-psychosis link worked both ways: Kids who at 16 smoked pot were more likely to have psychotic symptoms at 19, and kids who at 16 showed psychotic symptoms were more likely to smoke pot at 19.
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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.
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.
There is evidence that anti-psychotic drugs have some modest benefits for some specific behavioural symptoms over short periods (6-12 weeks), particularly aggression and to a lesser extent psychosis.
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