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Abstract
This cross section study was performed at El-Minia Psychiatric Hospital and EL- Minia University Hospital and conducted on 80 patients with psychotic and mood disorders in accordance with ICD 10. The aim was to explore the different subjective experiences of psychotropic medications and to assess the factors inflecting them using the modified DAI 30. The results show that study patients have a large variety of different subjective experiences of psychotropic medications. These experiences range between emotional subjective experiences, experiences of side effects, cognitive functions, effects on psychiatric symptoms , intersubjective and sociability, stigma and locus of control. Patients with psychotic disorders did not show different subjective experience to psychotropic medications from those with mood disorders. Patients’ subjective experiences are affected by many factors, among which are employment, insight, side effects, duration of current medications, quality of doctor-patient relationship, concurrent psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, family experience of psychotropic medications and stigma.