This is What Seroquel Did to Him 😳
A man describes his experience with PTSD and subsequent psychiatric medication, particularly Seroquel, which he believes worsened his mental state and caused severe paranoia. He experienced delusional thinking about poisoning, leading him to destroy food and water while his wife cared for their newborn.
Summary
The speaker recounts a personal struggle following what he identifies as delayed onset PTSD. After receiving this diagnosis, he was prescribed multiple medications including sleeping aids and anti-anxiety medications that proved ineffective. When these initial treatments failed, his doctor prescribed Seroquel. As his condition deteriorated—compounded by the realization he likely wouldn't be able to return to flying—he descended into a severe depressive spiral. During this period, he developed paranoid delusions, initially believing the government was targeting him, which manifested in hiding beneath windows. He later came to believe he was being poisoned, not through external sources as he initially thought, but through the FDA-approved medications prescribed by his trusted physician. This poisoning belief extended to his food and water supply. His paranoia escalated to the point where he would throw away food his wife was preparing while she simultaneously managed caring for their newborn son, insisting that they were being poisoned. He frames the medication itself as the actual source of poisoning, though not in the way he initially perceived.
Key Insights
- The speaker attributes his paranoid belief about government poisoning and subsequent food/water destruction directly to FDA-approved medication prescribed by a trusted doctor, not to external threats
- The speaker experienced a severe depressive spiral after realizing he would not be able to return to flying, which coincided with his psychiatric medication treatment
- Multiple psychiatric medications (sleeping aids and anti-anxiety medications) were ineffective before Seroquel was introduced
- The speaker's paranoid delusions manifested in specific behaviors like hiding under windows and destroying food and water while his wife was managing both household duties and a newborn
- The speaker frames his medication-induced symptoms as a form of poisoning, creating irony between his perception of the threat source and the actual cause
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Transcript
[0:00] I would come into [music] the house, and I would hide underneath the windows because I thought someone from the government was trying to kill me. >> Why did you think that? >> Pretty quickly got a delayed onset PTSD [music] diagnosis, and they started giving me meds, sleeping meds to try, anti-anxiety meds [music] to try. And as things weren't really working very well, they ended up giving me a medication called Seroquel. It became apparent that I likely wasn't going to get the opportunity to go back and fly, and [music] I started feeling pretty shitty about myself and climbing into a very dark, deep spiral. I felt I was being poisoned, and I was. It was…
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