Hi, @Ninjastar! Thank you for the answer 
Did you admit defeat while tapering off or when you already have stopped antipsychotics completely?
The first time, I was completely off for four months. The second time, I started on a much higher dose, and only got down about halfway before deciding it was a terrible idea.
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Thank you, @Ninjastar!
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Most APs I noticed symptoms returning like 2 weeks after quitting. Most of them I cold turkey quit except geodon which I physically couldnāt the withdrawal was so bad and that one took me two weeks of horror to taper off of. Even the smallest available dose I couldnāt go off of and I had to split that in half too.
Vraylar is sort of unique in that itās the only AP where my symptoms tend to show up the day after I skipped my dose and last for a couple of days even after I take my next dose normally. Vraylar is very important for me to take every day, at the same time. Not sure why itās different.
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Ya I notice I need my vraylar if I skip a dose. It keeps me med compliant.
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I was taken off meds including an AP when first switched to personality disorder from schizoaffective mixed type Although I didnāt see myself as psychotic the pdoc put me back on them after just over a year. Iād been taking APs erratically before being taken off them and that continued when put back on them . In May 2009 the decision to switch me to a depot was made.
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Itās time to bring some fire in hereā¦
Around 2 weeks no AP
I feel angry mostly
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was on really high doses of meds for abt 3 yrs, tapered off from this jan to late april
still took a little seroquel once a week after thay
withdrawal was kinda rough
afterwards no longer suffered from positives
little bit of paranoia comes back every once in a while, then i take up to 1mg ativan
and that is it
monitoring to avoid relapse, but benzos work just fine for me rn
and everyone is an individual
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Thank you, @Anon10!
I hope the best for you
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I took it 4 months ago at 156mg
I was taking the lowest dose of Geodon you can take. 20mg once a day. I was on that dose for a while and was still very symptomatic on it but I didnāt think I was sick then.
I kept asking my doctor to take me off of it and he wouldnāt do it so I stopped taking it. I was hospitalized in 5 days and had the worst episode of psychosis I have ever had.
At least I know I am sick now.
Now I take 80 mg of Geodon twice a day and 40 mg of Latuda. Thatās a lot more antipsychotic medication but I am very stable compared to how I used to be but still not cured or in remission.
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It took me about 3 weeks or less.
I was involuntarily committed twice within a months span.
For up to 5 weeks combined.
I wasnāt trying to get off APs, but my pdoc wanted to lower my Haldol from 30 mg to 20 mg to see if I could get by on the lower dose.
Six weeks later, I had three psychotic episodes in seven days and went back to 30 mg where I am now.
i decreased slowly but when i stopped completely my symptoms came back almost straight away.
I went cold turkey. Was phychotic within a week.
Thank you for the answers, everyone. I was tapering off aripiprazole, but, even with the help of a psychiatrist, I donāt think itās a good idea to do it now.
I donāt want to push any agenda that you shouldnāt stop medications or that you should do it, but for anything you do, itās important to be quite aware of the consequences.
Iām studying the approaches of how to heal this disorder and, even with the huge amount of reading I did, group discussions and events I participated and talks I had with people here in Brazil and around the world (with professionals from different approaches and people diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and depression), Iām not secure I should do it now.
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2 years. But I was experience some kind of mild positive symptoms and didnāt even notice (or I just didnāt want to accept) between that two years. But then I relapsed and even in the radio people where insulting me. It was a nightmare. I couldnāt work either. Now ( 2 years after the relapse) Iām feeling amazing. Of course i still have some negative symptoms but they are so weak compared to that time. Just stay on your meds folks!
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It used to be in as little as a couple of weeks back when I was in really bad shape. Now it takes me six weeks to six months off meds to really have my cheese slide off my cracker. It depends on my stress level (which is consdierable these days).
I am not psychotic or delusional and thatās why I donāt take it anymore
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