No relapse. Yeah sure I still believe I might be God, but it’s not a powerful delusion. I go about my day like any other person, and don’t even think about the delusion. Guess the doctors at hospital were ■■■■■■■wrong. Also my sex drive is great.
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It took me 6 to start relapsing. Was not fun at all. 0/10 would NOT recommend.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend any SZ person go fully off meds. It’s tempting, but you need at least a minimum amount of AP as a buffer from relapsing.
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Yeah, but I don’t hallucinate, or ruminate on any delusions. But I’m always careful if I get any sleep disturbances. They always occur before a psychotic episode with me. Also I am on antidepressants which have been helping with my intrusive thoughts massively.
Can you elaborate on this belief that you are God?
I had a post in unusual beliefs a couple of weeks ago about it. I just believe I created the Universe and I split my consciousness up into every living being so that I wouldn’t be alone. Another variant/possibility is that nobody else is actually sentient, and I am alone.
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If you think no one else is sentient, you’re experiencing an SZ symptom. This life may be a simulation, and people might be a greater consciousness split up into sentient beings, but there are boundaries and such which separate them. Blurring those boundaries really impacts the quality of this living experience. You get that when you’re not well. There are reasons for this, hinging on the adrenochrome hypothesis of schizophrenia (the compound responsible for giving LSD its high, basically the source of all the strange metaphysical happenings around schizophrenia).
Basically you’re producing too much. It’s making your life weird.
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schizophrenia is degenerative in thoughts towards paranoia in the end and you will eventually if you don’t go back on your ap’s now and stop the brain damage you will become terrified like I was when I stopped…you are sliding down the rabbit hole but you haven’t started to plummet yet…it’s not too late…get a hold of your pdoc and get an apointment as soon as possible…!!
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After i quit medicine Ä° got relapse inside of 2 months.then they put me higher dosage.i never repeated
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Good luck. I made it 4 days. On day 5 I was in an ER.
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I made it 4 months before landing back in the hospital.
im becoming worse with or without antisycotic.im disabled now.
Took me abt 6 months then things went downhill. Good luck though.
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Hopefully you’ll recover… And not need to go back on meds…!!! How amazing would that be…
I plan to do the same thing… At some point…
Just stay healthy and you’ll be OK…
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I relapsed after 1.5 years without meds but I hope that you don’t relapse. Psychosis got gradually worse until my parents called the cops and ambulance.
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I get rage when I see people encouraging people to stay off their meds…that is NOT o k…schizophrenics will eventually get paranoid in their belief systems and go through traumatic events and horrible consequences, maybe even die…horrible advice…horrible…
This is so true - I take minimum dose of my meds and usually cope ok. But when I relapse I take higher dose to get out of it.
If I don’t take meds I get ill within a week.
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Did you reduce slowly? Did you get a doctors assistance, or do it yourself? What were you taking, and did you get withdrawal? Were your family on your side?
I am interested as I am currently dropping my dose without consent from the doctor
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I survived 2 years without meds. Then I crashed and burned and ended up psychotic in hospital.
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Well, 3 months isn’t long enough to think it is ok and you are doing fine. I would be scared if I were you.
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