Why Would A Doctor Prescribe An Anti Psychotic If You Don T Have Any Disorder Are Bipolar (Top voted first)

My doctor put me on Invega, along with 3 other anti-depressants, 5 years ago. Invega is classified as an anti-psychotic only it had no side effects--no sedation at all was the most prominent. Now the Invega is responsible for raising my cholesterol to 318 so I have to go off it. I was on 6 mgs. and he lowered it to 3 for one week. I was fine--as if nothing changed. After going off of it, I was a mess. I was sweating, I couldn't sleep, I felt like something was crawling on my skin and I couldn't sit still. Without his knowledge I went back on the full dose because I am in a wedding of a family member in 11 days. Then I was thinking. The symptoms I was having when I went totally off of it were WITHDRAWAL symptoms, not due to the lack of the medication otherwise. The psychiatrist was still insisting I need an anti-psychotic. I don't understand why. I have major depression, treatment resistant depression, generalized anxiety and OCD. I never lose touch with reality and don't have mood swings or manic episodes or have any type of hallucinations. Does anyone have any input as to if they think I was detoxing? Does anyone have an input why the doctor would want me on an anti-psychotic when I show no symptoms that show I need it? Please help me! Thanks!

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I am going to give you more information about my post above since I got no responses. Invega is an anti-psychotic. I have never had any signs of being psychotic--no hallucinations of any kind, no out of body experiences, no losing touch with reality--and I am not Bipolar and have never had the manic highs nor depression lows that a Bipolar person would experience. (I read up on this, believe me!) Still, the psychiatrist put me on Invega, which is an anti-psychotic, and when we just found out it raised my cholesterol to 318, he wants to take me off Invega and put me on another anti-psychotic. Is there anyone that can give me some input on why a doctor would prescribe that type of medication when I have no symptoms that it treats? PLEASE HELP ME! Thanks if you reply!

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Hello, Candy! How are you?

A combination of medications is often required for those that have treatment resistant depression. When the usual classes of antidepressants haven't worked for such a person, it has been found that adding in an antipsychotic can help. They tend to do more for the uncontrollable thought patterns of depression for people with such problems.

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Thank you Vernon for your answer, no matter how hard it is to take! :) You could do something else for me. You could invent an anti-psychotic that won't make me sleep half my life away. My Doctor wants to put me on Latuda, but my Friend lasted 5 days on it because she got so depressed from sleeping so much. She is bi-polar though. The doctors have agreed to let me say on Invega until May 11 after the wedding and graduation are over. I can't ask for more than that! Thank you for your time and your response!!! Have a great day!

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