Is there any relations between schizoprenia/multiple personality disorder/depression and cluster headaches?
Is it common for people with
-Schizophrenia
-Depression
- or Multiple personality disorder
to suffer from Cluster headaches ("suicide headache")?
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1. All of the "conditions" you have listed do not exist. They cannot by proven by the theory of "chemical imbalances" Psychiatry is a lie and is extremely dangerous. The only way to attain true mental health and clarity is through dianetics.2. IDK ..but there is no such thing as schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder you have a big family they all are themselfs they all play in like a jigsaw puzzle.. love it .. depression good GOD must everyone be depressed .. i hate this world GOD..
3. It is not any more common for people with preexisting conditions of schizophrenia, depression, or multiple personality disorder to suffer from cluster headaches than it is for people without those conditions to suffer from cluster headaches. However, there are a couple of points of connection:
1. As the term "suicide headache" implies, sufferers do come to have unusually high rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. A relatively large percentage of cluster headache sufferers who are unable to find treatment for these extremely painful headaches do attempt suicide. So while being diagnosed with depression does not mean you are any more likely to subsequently come down with cluster headaches, suffering from cluster headaches does mean that you are more likely to later qualify for a diagnosis of depression. Note that this is an "explainable depression" - it doesn't arise simply from a chemical imbalance in the brain, but rather arises out of circumstances that justify extreme dissatisfaction. In this way, the high depression rates among chronic cluster headache sufferers is not unlike the depression that one suffers when a loved one dies: it is real, but it is in some ways an appropriate response to the circumstances. Simply having depression as a preexisting condition does not make you more susceptible to cluster headaches, though.
2. One treatment that works to prevent cluster headaches in some sufferers is to take lithium. This drug is also prescribed for schizophrenia. Note that cluster headache sufferers who find that lithium can help control the headaches generally show no signs of schizophrenia, however. Doctors do not yet understand the mechanism by which lithium (or ANY other cluster headache treatment) works, and so it's not clear that the preventative value with respect to cluster headaches is at all related to the mechanism by which lithium helps to control schizophrenia. However, it is possible that the two are somehow linked. Having said that, schizophrenia rates are no higher among cluster sufferers than they are among the population at large, so a direct connection seems unlikely.
