Antipsychotics have nothing to do with reality

There is a trope in movies where a character is given a pill or choice of taking a pill to return to reality or to stay in a delusional state. For szs that situation is reflected in taking antipsychotic medication or not and continuing to have symptoms. However, I question whether this should be considered returning to reality, or just simply treating sz symptoms. There is a difference. Nobody takes an antipsychotic pill and suddenly has crystal vision regarding truth and the nature of reality and existence. They would not for instance know anything about the nature of their illness or even have facts related to society in which they live. To understand reality takes investigation, study, and critical thinking. However, even doing those things might result, and have resulted, in an incorrect understanding. So basically I’m making a comment on the unrealistic connection between aps and reality, and instead argue that they treat certain kinds of delusions and other symptoms, namely psychosis, which are actually quite typical.

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APs brought me back to reality to a certain degree, this new reality sucks compared to the reality I had before sz. For me APs suppress emotions instead of fixing them, they suppress both bad and good emotions which sucks so I call it half a treatmemt not a full treatment.

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That’s the sticking point of the issue. The symptoms of sz are delusions etc. but the removal of delusions doesn’t necessarily mean you are in reality. Just as removal of a virus from your system doesn’t mean you are healthy.

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I will call it back to reality if I become again like how I was before prodromal sz.

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Same. This is not reality I am in, this is a corruption of what reality could have been.

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Well, fiction is fiction. If fiction was reality I’d be a vampire leaving drained bodies everywhere as I slant towards chaotic evil. APs can nudge a person back towards being in the position to think critically, but that outcome is not guaranteed. It also depends in large part on how much intelligence an individual had to work with before the onset of the illness.

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There’s lots of fiction, detective novels, westerns, sci-fi, etc. why would you have to be a blood sucking vampire?

First, I’m a night owl. Also:

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No more questions? Good.

I guess vampires are pretty cool, I was just wondering, too bad it had to take the form of a question.

Dracula remains one of my fave novels.

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Also little known fact, vampire bats usually suck blood from the ankle of their prey.

^^^ You just made my weekend.

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For me taking a antipsychotic reduced my symptoms, thereby giving me a chance for my delusions to fade and return to reality. For example, I used to see signs in everything, and fairly quickly upon taking an antipsychotic, I no longer could see these “signs”. I was actually initially mad that they had taken this ability away from me. lol.

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It’s a tricky argument to make that aps don’t bring you back to reality. I tried. I’ve been sick a long time, unmedicated for over 15 years, and I had a delusion about signs as well, but I was thinking some gibberish (I am also disorganized) that the signs people saw in diagnosing sz as well as other signs were part of some kind of system. I remember more of the delusion but I’ll just leave it there.

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Well antipsychotics definitly gives us a alternate state of reality. The meds interfere with our emotions. I feel quite frosty in a way compared to not taking ap’s.

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Thats another angle of looking at it. Aps have altered what i can safely assume would be reality for me in a few ways: not having sex, not being in good shape, not living on my own. These are all things i would almost definitely be doing if i wasnt on aps.

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