So limited is the medical arsenal at my disposal, another drug I may be forced to prescribe might trigger mental instability, causing psychotic episodes so acute that they could be a danger to themselves.
Legal and illegal drugs can cause psychotic symptoms, in cocaine-dependent patients the prevalence of these symptoms may reach 86% (Vorspan, 2012).
It's a cheap way to get high, and therefore popular among poorer drug users including the homeless but it can cause psychotic episodes and be extremely addictive.
However, they're all substances that can cause psychotic symptoms or paranoia, so combining them clearly isn't the best way to reduce the risk of experiencing those side effects.
In his Eastern Mississippi Correctional Facility report, Terry Kupers noted that "isolated confinement is likely to cause psychiatric symptoms such as severe anxiety, depression and aggression in relatively healthy prisoners, and cause psychotic breakdowns, severe affective disorders and suicide crises in prisoners who have histories of serious mental illness or are prone to mental illness".
Transfer of tick-borne pathogens might have caused psychotic symptoms.
Chronic MA use is known to cause psychotic symptoms that mimic that of schizophrenia [ 68- 70].
Regular ketum use is also reported to cause psychotic symptoms such as mental confusion, delusion, and hallucination [ 1].
Conversely, it has been argued that substance misuse might cause psychotic symptoms or increase the likelihood of psychotic symptoms in already vulnerable individuals [ 10, 18, 19].
Other illnesses or physical traumas, such as strokes and tumors, can cause psychotic symptoms.
