im curious if anyone here doesnt take meds and isnt in immediate need of treatmemts. i take meds but i noticed before i started them i could manage without, never been hospitalized, no one even knew i had anything wrong with me when i was hearing voices but i asked my mom if i could see a pdoc due to just wanting silence.
If I were to stop my meds, I’d end up in the psych hospital pretty quickly.
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Im not. But i also had a very different experience when i first got ill.
I also dont have chronic sz , but have bipolar 1 with psychosis.
But i did go unmedicated hearing voices and having hallucinations and delusions for over 7 years before i even tried aps.
I learned to cope over those years. Its a long story lol.
So im probably not an ideal example for it.
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I’ve been on meds 40 years and will probably be on them another 40 years.
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Ive had sz 20 years and have only been on meds 7 years. I could probably go a couple years off meds but i would gradually get worse
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I’ve been on meds since I was 20; and I’m 60 now. I will be on meds until I go to that great big psyche ward in the sky.
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Yes me too @Blossom
Without meds it’s instant craziness and I’d get locked up very quickly.
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I’m not on meds but that’s because I recovered, which took me like 10 years.
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I’ve been on meds since 2016. Sometimes I still think that my cell phone is hacked and talking to me and want to try quitting meds. I guess I still hear things when my cell phone is not on me so maybe that won’t go very well.
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I would also get locked up quickly without meds. These past ten years since my relapse I couldn’t stop them again. Each time I did I had to go into hospital.
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I’m no longer on APs, but i do take an AD. I do not have positive symptoms.
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I am on meds since 18. Im 25 now.
I quit cold turkey five or six times. Whitin a day of two i end up showing symtoms.
4 times i ended up in the hospital.
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Im exactly as i was before this illness on my current med.
Exactly the same temperament
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But it took 5 years to get a right med. 5 hell years
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I am on the lowest therapeutic dose. Aripiprazole 10mg. Doing well, most symptoms are gone!
It can be done. I’ve grappled with voices more than once though. I’ve weeped and been suicidal. Maybe my faith helped me pull through, not sure. But I wasn’t gonna sit on my arse waiting for death.
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I’ve tried lowering my ap. I get unbearable symptoms, I.e. 24/7 voices all the time. I now take the max dose of Invega and doing better. I also take Wellbutrin and Leponex.
Ive never really heard voices or seen ■■■■ that isnt there. But i definately start to see things in different ways. Lord knows ive tried to come off meds many times. I couldnt make it happen. Far as i can tell my body goes completly haywire. All my muscles seize up, i cant pick up on small nauances in dealings with people. Negative views of life. Things are not as they seem or used to be. And over all its just terror and hell. I am quite sure in my case its organic insanity. Meaning its truely a bodily and physical brain issue and not purely psychological. I do believe if it was psychological it can be worked through or reversed.
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