Feeling of bugs in skin, taking medication for mental illness. Can you help?
Patient: hi my partner as got a mental illness she takes medication every day and nite for it but she keeps saying she as got bugs in her skin and keeps trying to get them out but i keep telling her there is nothing there but she keeps saying the people in her head are telling her they are i dont know what to do she wont go to a and e with me can u help me please Doctor: This condition is Delusional perceptive disorder if there is no skin infection. Please take one antipsychotic in low dose like olanzapine, trifluperazine&trihexiphenidyl combination and antidepressant like fluoxetine,escitalopram with low dose anxiolytic like clonazepam.