Continuing the discussion from Taking a Break From Meds:
Discuss your desire to come off medication with your pdoc
Don’t go cold turkey. Agree to a gradual,slow withdrawal
Realise that family and friends may be the best judges as to whether withdrawal is making you worse. If so let them intervene before it gets so bad that total insight is lost.
If we go off meds then there must be a reason for it and the reason must not be our own decision which is not backed by research.
If you have done your research and want to go off meds then it all makes sense otherwise noooooooooooo…
I feel I could potentially go down on meds? But I’m like @everhopeful
I lose all insight off meds. My dose is pretty high but there’s no sideaffects so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But I feel within 5 years I will wanna go down on meds. When I’m 50 maybe I’ll only need 5 mg. instead of 20 mg. that’s what my pdoc said but he said I’ll always need it.
I have never come off meds on my won volition. I had a year’s break instigated by a pdoc when my diagnosis changed from schizoaffective but had to go back on them.
I do often wonder whether I need them especially as I carry a dx that ,whilst including the possibility of psychosis, isn’t regarded as a psychotic dx.
If I focussed on my own doubts centring round whether I am truly mentally ill, or just a social misfit, I would be quite tempted to stop.
However a part of me considers that maybe people are not put on medication on a whim, and that others may see the need for medication that I can’t see.