It’s my experience from knowing people with depression and anxiety that the drug seroquel is over prescribed in Australia.
4 Likes
I’m going to keep taking the antipsychotics long term even if I lose 20 years of life because otherwise going through school and getting a job would be impossible. Besides I’m already tired of living and the thought of growing old scares me anyways. I’d rather live a life that is short and sweet rather than long and miserable. I’m so glad that I don’t hear voices anymore or see things that aren’t there.
1 Like
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about people who take it for reasons other than psychosis? I know I’d never take these drugs if I didn’t have to 
4 Likes
Hmm maybe you are right
They’re definitely not. They specifically mention sz and psychosis in their examples.
1 Like
I seriously want to get off these meds. This article didn’t help to make me want to stay on them.
Everyday I fight to take them. It’s like a war in my head and then I just force myself.
Has anyone tried anything else that somehow worked!?
I’m so desperate.
1 Like
I periodically come to a point where I detest taking me meds. I feel like I gag when I take them, and the thought of swallowing down even 1 more pill is more than I can bear. That’s when I start talking to my husband about letting me get off of them. He hasn’t given in yet, and eventually I get over it. Right now, I don’t feel that way though; I would rather take me meds and be as happy as possible than live a long life.
+1. Seriously. Maybe after things settle down I’ll try lowering my dose, if nothing else.
Serôqûel tried to knock me unconscious three times in less then three minutes.
My last psychiatrist loved prescribing her patients Abilify and Seroquel.
Seroquel made me Hallucinate.
Made me see Halogram like visuals of ghosts in my room, then it knocked me out.
There’s a documentary on Netflix in which a warden from a maximum security prison in Norway visits a maximum security prison in upstate New York. What is very clear is that the environment affects people’s behavior.
Thus if you change the psychiatric ward you change the patient’s behavior. Chemical restraints, physical restraints, and isolation cannot be used on the presupposition of violent behavior.
1 Like
I refer you to Antipsychotics and mortality in a nationwide cohort of 29,823 patients with schizophrenia
I’ve definitely been over medicated for the convenience of the phych staff. But short term and only while I was in there. But traumatic definitely. Fact is there is no alternative to us taking AP’s unless we want to burden our love ones and hope they will Greatly sacrifice to care for someone out of touch and out of control. No thanks I’ve watched My illness bring my wife to the point of vomiting ,and Total helplessness. What kind of life would that torment be for us without AP’s… homelessness is also the other alternative. In the early days before AP’s we were treated much worse and none of us had the ability to be independent most all were locked away. Hitler’s solution was to kill us off or use us as guinea pigs. I think the use of AP’s is way better than the other alternatives .
Unfortunately many of these people without treatment may die much much sooner than 19 years early due to the very high suicide rate associated with severe mental illness.
I saw this on my FB feed and thought it was pretty irresponsible from the ABC, they might convince people to go off their meds.
ABC is meant to be reputable, but I think this is a dangerous article, they did not even state once in the article how much of a life saver APs can be.
I agree actually.
1 Like
Have you brought these feelings up with your doctor? Meds are the most effective way to treat psychotic disorders. What about it don’t you like?
1 Like
AP’s haven’t shortened my life. If anything, they have lengthened my life. I’d be dead today without them. It’s these mental illnesses that shorten your life.
1 Like
I take the highest dose of geodon. I only have one more atypical antipsychotic to try other than Clozapine. I hallucinate every day throughout the day. My Dr believes I have delusions. I don’t think I’ve been overprescribed. I’ve even tried 2 antipsychotics together multiple times. But I do think if it were really sz, then the meds would stop all this.
The side effects.
Yea I have told my psychiatrist that I hate them.
I need them so I should just stop bitching.
1 Like