What medicine do they give you for mdd, gad, and paranoid schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital?

Mdd stands for Major Depressive Disorder, and Gad stands for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Im already on Lexapro 20 mg and 2 grams daily of xanax, but i have to go get more medicine for my schizophrenic problems. Does anyone know what kinds i will be taking while in the psychiatric hospital?

when i said what kinds will i be taking in the psych hospital, i mean what will be prescribed to me to take from now on

I only really know about schizophrenia.

Paranoid schizophrenia is treated with an antipsychotic. There are many different antipsychotics, but they are generally divided into two groups: Typical and Atypical.

Atypical antipsychotics are the newer ones. The pharmaceutics companies have made many claims that they have less side effects and are more effective than the older typical ones, but I have not found this to be the case.

If you have a good doctor, they will try you on a low dose of one single antipsychotic. If you get the usual type of doctor, they will give you higher doses of a number of different antipsychotics.

There is this strange belief by many psychiatrists that mixing and matching powerful drugs (known as polypharmacy) is more effective. In my experience, all these drugs interact, and you are left barely functional.

I have paranoid schizophrenia, and take a low dose of an antipsychotic (amisulpride). I will not take any other drugs, such as antidepressants, as I have had such bad experiences of them while on the antipsychotic. Again, its an interaction thing with the drugs, and even more side effects. To be honest, I have found that people who take other drugs besides a single antipsychotic are hardly capable of doing anything.

I prefer more natural things. Fish oil is a big one. If you look around there is a lot of research proving that it works with just about all mental illnesses. This is probably because fish oil is made up of the same fats that around a quarter of your brain is made up of. The fats that the brain needs can only come from a few different foods, the main one being fish. Fish consumption is much lower now than it once was, so you could argue that the brain is being starved of the basic nutritional building blocks it needs. And if the brain is unhappy, it is going to let my know... perhaps by making you feel very bad.

The other thing I use is probiotics ("good bacteria"). Very few people have tried this with mental illness, but I have had great results. The idea is that many people (perhaps most) these days have some sort of digestive, stomach or gut problem. If the digestive system is not working properly, it will poorly absorb nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, again leaving you with a "starving brain".
If you want to try a probiotic, Multibionta is a nice cheap one that does actually work.

I don't go on about it too much, but I have a really good , demanding, job, where noone knows about my illness, a nice apartment where my neighbours know nothing about schizophrenia, etc. I do not have relapses, or "cognitive decline" .

Just a pretty standard type of life like everyone who doesn't have schizophrenia - it is by no means such a terrible condition if you are prepared to take some responsibly for your own health.


I am rather surprised that you say you have paranoid schizophrenia. In general, when p.sz first appears, psychosis develops. This is a loss of touch with reality - a paranoid schizophrenic would just not have the "insight" to know they were ill. This is why they typically end up being forcibly medicated when the illness first develops.

If you want to know about anything related to sz, just ask me.

That is hard to say specifically as there are numerous medicines for each of, depression, anxiety and Schizophrenia. Probably an anti-depressant, an anxiolytic and an anti-psychotic. It is up to your prescribing physician after he is familiar with your specific condition..