As I have mentioned before, dopamine agonists, such as the mirapex I take, can cause obsessive compulsive disorder. Some obsessions are relatively harmless, while others are dangerously destructive.
Some of the different types of obsessions are:
Gambling
Shopping
Hypersexuality
Extramarital affairs
Suspicions of partner’s infidelity
Cross dressing
Pornography
Fetishism
sexual arousal to objects
Obsessive masturbation
Cyber sexual activities
Exhibitionism
Visual and/or aural hallucinations
Obsessive risk-taking
Punding - ie obsession with mechanical behaviour
Delusions (grandeur, paranoia)
Violent behaviour
Eating
Mental agility games (crosswords, backgammon, numerics)
Cyber shopping & auctions
One in four PD patients prescribed dopamine agonists suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder to some degree. This increases to 1 in 3 for young onset patients, and to 1 in 2 for those on or near the maximum doses of the medication. (The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Massachusetts, February, 2011)
There are other behaviours that have not been listed. As for me, I am addicted to mental agility games, but then I was before. My eating compulsion has ended and while I like online shopping and auctions, my spending has not increased since taking the DA's. I guess I am one of the lucky ones.
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