Seroquel's spiritual effects

[seeingred]

Not sure if this is better in this section or in another, please move it if so.
This is a reflection of swim's experience taking seroquel and the ways it affected swim spiritualy.
Swim had been taking seroquel for around 8 months. This drug caused a lot of problems and also some strange insights. When swim was on it swim became highly spiritual, would contemplate death a lot and would pray. Swim was in constant chest pain but when swim would pray the pain would lighten.
Swim had experiences meditating and felt the room fill up with light. Swim had experiences that swim was being called to Tao, when suddenly the name Tao came into swim's mind and swim was rushed into an extasy. Swim tried not to think but was too excited. Suddenly the universe made sense. All worlds were overlapping eachother and there was another universe that was part of ours, that was watching ours...who knew all of our fates. Swim would have wild dreams, sometimes lucid ones and sometimes they would last for days. Swim dreamt almost every night. If it weren't for the hallucinations and the side-effects it would have been almost fun to take. One night swim was in bed and actually heard guitar music being played downstairs by swim's friend who was already asleep. Swim could hear the meloday of a song she'd never heard him play, a really good one. Swim thought it could be his ghost or spirit playing it. When swim rolled over in bed the music quieted, it was soft and peaceful...it was as if the hallucination had heard swim and was playing more quietly. But swim's insights became sort of skewed. Swim began to rely on otherworldly impulses to make decisions. Swim couldn't sleep without it but when swim took it would fall asleep anywhere and sleep deeply. Swim began to hear voices that told swim things and gave advice, and then as time went on the euphoria was lost- the voices became almost demented. Swim tried skipping the pills but this caused tactile hallucinations where swim felt swims skin being torn into tiny pieces. Swim almost misses the drug because although swim was very tired a lot swim had inspiration. Swim decided to stop when the feelings began to be too dark and too painful. Swim had begun to be a little too out there. Swim is considering getting a prescription for it just to see if there can be any use in it...but swim knows it had dangerous effects even psychologically. The most weird experiences have been on this drug. Swim also had some psychic experiences, where voices and thoughts would warn swim or tell swim what others were thinking.

[Nagognog2]

Excuse me, but...Seroquel (quietapine)tends to be prescribed for psychotics (or persons so diagnosed). SWIM is saying this drug caused hallucinations of auditory, tactile, and a religous sense of ideation. This sounds more like atropine.

I wouldn't be looking for a prescription. I'd be looking for a good attorney! What a perfect drug for unscrupulous doctors and the pharmaceutical company behind it: It creates the very symptoms that lead to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Then it is prescribed to treat the very condition it causes! Fantastic!

[seeingred]

Originally Posted by Nagognog2

Excuse me, but...Seroquel (quietapine)tends to be prescribed for psychotics (or persons so diagnosed). SWIM is saying this drug caused hallucinations of auditory, tactile, and a religous sense of ideation. This sounds more like atropine.

I wouldn't be looking for a prescription. I'd be looking for a good attorney! What a perfect drug for unscrupulous doctors and the pharmaceutical company behind it: It creates the very symptoms that lead to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Then it is prescribed to treat the very condition it causes! Fantastic!

I know! But there's nothing I can do about it. There were other problems too- such as went into convulsions from the a lights being turned on. I had to overcome this sensation by sort of climbing higher consciously, calming myself down. It was a "tactile hallucination" they said but I think it was more like a seizure? or something similar. It was like, my body blacked out and I got shocked then I sort of convulsed.
I told the doctor and he said like it was nothing, he gave me valium for it. he is the strangest doctor. I actually loathe him. He doesn't slowly lower me off drugs he just prescribes them at random doses. The only successful one I've had is abilify, which basically numbs me out enough so I don't have to deal with the problems. any symptoms I was experiencing were all classified as symptoms of my illness. the same went with geodon, it cracked me up- it made me paranoid in an outrageous way, I couldn't barely talk...well...I had actually been doing pretty well before I took geodon or comparitavely. I was better off before geodon and seroquel. Seroquel put me in a zone, in fact- I went for about a year I think it was longer than 8 months, where I thought I would be trapped on seroquel forever. I took myself off of it without the doctor's help. He simply doesn't help me....other than prescribing me stuff. I used abilify to get off seroquel.

[~lostgurl~]

What was SWIY originally prescribed seroquel for? As it is an anti-psychotic it is possible that you already had psychotic tendencies and for some reason seroquel had an adverse or opposite affect on you, so instead of helping your illness, it enhanced it. I hope you have talked all this through with your Doctor, what if the voices return? What if they "advise" you to do something terrible? I think that the risk involved for you in taking seroquel is not worth any benefits you receive from it. Taking the advise of voices in your head could have devastating consequences. I'd advise you to get a specialist doctors opinion before taking any type of drug or medication.

[seeingred]

Originally Posted by ~lostgurl~

What was SWIY originally prescribed seroquel for? As it is an anti-psychotic it is possible that you already had psychotic tendencies and for some reason seroquel had an adverse or opposite affect on you, so instead of helping your illness, it enhanced it. I hope you have talked all this through with your Doctor, what if the voices return? What if they "advise" you to do something terrible? I think that the risk involved for you in taking seroquel is not worth any benefits you receive from it. Taking the advise of voices in your head could have devastating consequences. I'd advise you to get a specialist doctors opinion before taking any type of drug or medication.

Seroquel was worsening the symptoms. I skipped it sometimes just because I couldn't handle the shocking. It put me in a loop state. Like I mean...I always thought about how I wanted to get off it but I thought it impossible that I could because the doctor kept saying we'll wait till next appointment to lower it, and the lowering wasn't working. I was completely brainwashed- really.
I couldn't listen to music or watch movies. I noticed that after I took seroquel I would hear voices, at night always- before bed when I took it.
I have schizophrenia. I'm not sure what type but I never used to hear voices and the voices have stopped now. I'm on a different med. So I guess, all in all, but the problem with getting off of it was it caused the strangest withdrawel of tactile hallucinations. I never had them before...or heard voices until I started geodon- geodon was the time when I first ever heard them and it was actually- after I took geodon and after the doctor increased dosages that it got worse. I was on 180 mgs of geodon daily and it made me become paranoid, afterwards was put on seroquel which made me have problems too.
These voices have actually advised terrible things, that was when I was taking geodon. But....when I wasn't on anti-psychotics- which I was stable for a year until relatives got involved, I didn't hear voices, slept regularly and to them was too confrontational. I thought i was fine, I definately wasnt super religious, suicidal, brain-dead and most definately was NOT hearing voices. Now that's changed, ever since I was put into the hospital I have been hearing voices. Oh, and my doctor doesn't really like to talk. He doesn't want to know things. He says I'm "ambivalant"/

[seeingred]

Originally Posted by ~lostgurl~

What was SWIY originally prescribed seroquel for? As it is an anti-psychotic it is possible that you already had psychotic tendencies and for some reason seroquel had an adverse or opposite affect on you, so instead of helping your illness, it enhanced it. I hope you have talked all this through with your Doctor, what if the voices return? What if they "advise" you to do something terrible? I think that the risk involved for you in taking seroquel is not worth any benefits you receive from it. Taking the advise of voices in your head could have devastating consequences. I'd advise you to get a specialist doctors opinion before taking any type of drug or medication.

the voices were triggered by tinnitus and seizure like problems- it's difficult to explain but I'm most definately sure it was the seroquel that caused the hallucinations.