What are you like off meds?

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I don’t mean “3 months ago I came off them and I feel great” that proves nothing
What are you like unmedicated?

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Haven’t really found out yet… probably never will… If I did I’d hope I’d be normal

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I talk and scream at things that are not there. I look around for my voices. I don’t make eye contact, and I talk about people reading my mind and my thoughts being broadcast across satellites. I also develop an unhealthy obsession with aliens. My moods are also shotgunned all over the place.

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Then the question changes to what wereyou like before meds

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My hypomanias would get higher over to huge manias, my depression would sink very low, my moods would cycle very rapidly - I would get more mixed and psychotic, thinking that my dad is trying to kill me probably.
Not a good scenario.
The cops would get involved, because my paranoia will take over etc…

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Very paranoid about everyone even own family
Dilusional
Mood swings
Not well at all

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Highly suggestible, you can talk me into all sorts of dangerous behavior. I’m highly paranoid, very delusional. Hallucinations get pretty out there.

I’m either in a deep panic attack or so out there manic and hyper… I cringe when I think about it.

When I was younger and flat out refused medication… I grabbed for illegal drugs in a big way.

I think the best word to describe it is… rabid.

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I’ll chip in mine

Reckless, I run away
Command delusions, I’m violent
Psychogenic polydipsia, I drink any liquid I can get my hands on till I shake all over
Delusional things like I have a spirit dog that gets rid of the cancer demons in my body by sitting on my chest at night
Or I’m the next Mary or I do soul exchange with everyone

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Last longest time a zombie mostly I was also very withdrawn and suicidal. I ended up self medicating with cold and flu tablets to get some sleep. Which gave me enough insight to go back on my meds.

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Before I was put on med’s I was a fairly subdued person, but now I’m dependent on med’s, and I get a rebound effect when I come off them. I get unpredictable. I get giddy. I hear voices, and I do crazy things. I have a hostile edge to me. I’m a lot more outgoing. Experience has taught me that it is best for me not to come off the med’s. I get in trouble when I do.

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I was cool… I was an ugly kid as far as personality went. Learned a lot faster made faster connections had better memory now that’s all f*cked up due to meds… But hey there’s nothing I can really change about that.

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Me off meds? Drunk and disorderly

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i make the joker look like a party clown when unmedicated…

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and i scream at my voices and argue with them, i forgot that.

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I used to not be able to talk with my voices because I was shy with whom I thought I was communicating with. Then when I wanted them to talk to me they stopped… Funny the irony

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that IS ironic, phillip.

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Yeah I’m dumb I have the stupidest thoughts I haven’t gone to school in like two months I have literally NO education.

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you ,ust have SOME education, philip… I’m sure you aren’t stupid…

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anxious, agitated, voices return, negative symptoms worsen, senses more acute

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I’m like I am now but less of a threshold for handling stress. I also have trouble understanding people , when some people speak , I can not understand them , I hear the words but I can not assemble them in a way that makes sense to me. In stressful situations I start hallucinating.