Thanks for reporting on this. But psychosis and akathisia are two different things. Mantel describes it well here: https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1388469833851936771
"No physical pain has ever matched that morning's uprush of killing fear, the hammering heart. You are impelled to move, to pace in a small room. You force yourself down into a chair, only to rise out of it. You choke; pressure rises inside your skull. You hands pull...
at your clothing and tear at your arms …" The answer was Largactil, a heavy-duty anti-psychotic, "which knocked me into insensibility."

She was given another antipsychotic here, perhaps to replace the first one. But antipsychotics are definitely not akathisia treatment!
Akathisia is often *caused* by antipsychotics. Which is maybe the confusion.

Alternatively, if akathisia is misdiagnosed as a separate psychiatric condition, patients may be given antipsychotics. But that's an error! It's not because akathisia=psychosis
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