AP's treat the symptoms?

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Aps treat the positives mainly, of psychosis…so why does it take weeks or months before a person leaves their delusional state?

I read somewhere that the cross sections of brain tissue of deceased schizophrenic people showed higher D2 receptor activity…but if psychosis was purely d2 related, then why do symptoms persist days, or weeks after immediate medicating.

I don’t like meds as they damage the body…metabolic syndrome, akathisia etc.

I know psychedelics are being researched nowadays again.
Hopefully they will yield results. I think psychedelics may be able to regenerate neuronal tissues and pathways. A neurogenesis.

Taking psychedelics at random, even microdosing is probably dangerous for most of us though.

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I heard addiction is caused by less d2 (dopamine) cells than normal in your brain. So how can you have addiction and schizophrenia in that case?? Which I know many do

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I though sz was d2 hyperactivity/reuptake

Meds can cause super sensitivity and rebound psychosis when people stop taking them. Never happened to me though. I’m coming off this trash soon. It’s not treating any symptoms as I am asymptomatic. I think Drs need to look into Brief Psychotic Disorder (and recurrence) rather than full blown Schizophrenia as a diagnosis. (I hate pdocs and their indoctrination and biases)

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Maybe because meds need to buildup first in the blood to a certain concentration?

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I think its more complicated than just d2 receptors. Clozapine is the most effective AP yet its the AP with the least d2 blockade. I always wanted to know why.

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I don’t even think the doctors know

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Oh yeah forgot about that. Some depots they give in tablet form prior for weeks for a build up.

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Practically all addiction also has a heavily ingrained psychological component.

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I don’t know if i am saying too much, but if i do, then i hope the moderators would flag my post or cancel it, but i am microdosing at the moment.

I try to get rid of a chronic sadness / depression, which my antidepressants cant help me with.

I have two days microdosing. Two days without etc.

On the first four days microdosing i felt nothing, but on the fifth day, i felt a spark of joy, and it was like my brain was rinsed without being high - but i also had an increase of anxiety.

Microdosing is dangerous for people with SZ and a full trip is a no go for people like us.

I don’t think there is any risk for addiction. Psilocybin is not a drug like alcohol, opiates, amphetamine. You can’t take it just like that. You have to be ready for an experience and it can be quite a challenge.

Take care out there.

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psylocybin, while i’m not saying it doesn’t have benefits because it absolutely does, it made me see weird shadows years after i had taken it.

I was hypocondriac about losing my mind back then before symptoms set in.

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I have had the worst bad trip on a full dose of psilocybin when i was young, It’s really a dangerous drug and i will never take a full trip again.

Now i am only taking a small amount, about 1/10 of a full trip

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I microdosed twice, it was a great happy time. Then knowing I was already mentally f’ed a bit I did small starter dose and all hell broke loose. It opened up all the bad stuff in my brain, along with grand hallucinations after the fact. I’m still dealing with psychotic symptoms 2 years later. I will never touch it again. Or weed. That makes me hallucinate now.

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Im sorry to hear. I hate weed. It makes me so goddamn sick and dizzy.

Never, never, never take a full trip of any psychedelic if you suffer from any SZ related illness.

In fact i had anxiety only on 1/10 of a dose, but i also experienced joy and a feeling of my brain and body being rinsed. I got rid of the sadness, but i guess it comes back again. Same old story.

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