I'm a 52-year-old male who was diagnosed with a Pure-O Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) psychiatric disorder since the age of 25. I have no family history of psychosis or schizophrenia.
My medical treatment for my OCD has included antidepressants and benzodiazepines, with no illegal drugs neither alcohol consumption.
However, my symptoms over the past few months are not related to my typical OCD symptoms. These new symptoms include emotional numbness, -almost- no thought process, lack of speech/language, since I haven’t much to say, i.e., my mind is very blank, amnesia and cognitive impairment. No anxiety neither OCD symptoms. They have gone. I have not hallucinations neither delusions.
My psychiatrist argues that I have never been psychotic (and/or schizophrenic) and his diagnosis is Depersonalization/Derealization (DP/DR). Since I was/am not sure that this new condition was DP/DR a second medical opinion was required. The new diagnosis was a Psychotic Disorder; more specifically a Delusional Disorder. I do not know if my new condition is a psychotic one, but I believe that it can’t be a Delusion Disorder without delusions.
Hence, I do not know what’s wrong with me. Additionally, I don’t know which is/are the cause(s):
- long term effects of psychoactive (antidepressants and benzodiacepines) prescribed drugs,
- organical cause (the results of my neurological tests were OK),
- functional cause, i.e., a new mental disorder, as a Psychotic Disorder, DP/DR, some kind of dementia,…,
- some mix of the above.
Thanks in advanced for your opinion(s) (and sorry for my English level, since I’m not a native guy).