[Stephanie]

Hi grateful,

Well you are DEFINITELY in the right forum because I moderate it and you're telling my story to a T. I was a meth addict and did indeed have amphetimine induced psychosis but when I got clean they didn't coin that term as of yet. After a few rounds with anti psychotics, psychiatrists telling me I was bi-polar, hospitalizations etc. i was personally convinced that I was not and that my condition was drug induced.

The deal is that someone who is prone to mental illness especially with a psychotic component, amphetamine will bring it out for sure. With prolonged crystal meth use the same symptoms can surface even without mental illness and can even continue throught the next year or so even if you have not taken the drug if you have limited sleep or are not eating well, etc. Taking some of the drugs you described as well can also bring about psychosis if the person is prone to this type of mental illness. Without the drug it may never come to the surface but when aggrevated it will and seems to have done just that.

I would definitely tell your friend to tell their doctor that adderall is not the best alternative due to the circumstances. Celexa is distributed in the body slowly throughout the day and does not act so much like an amphetamine as adderall.

You are right on about the correlation between the two but since we are both not doctors i would advise him to be honest with his dr. about this entire situation.