I am on high dose 6mg risperidone mainly because I have anger issues. I asked my pdoc to increase my dose and it helped. My pdoc orginally prescribed me 3mg and I had no sz symptoms. On 120mg Latuda I didn’t have them either and neither on 20mg Abilify. I feel like I am overmedicated.
I am not a big fan of medicating for every little thing. I try to get by on the minimum dose that I can and still deal with minor symptoms. Minor symptoms generally meaning a bit of paranoia for me.
Better that than increase negs, IMO.
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I did a lot of anger management therapy to lose my hair trigger anger. It is mostly gone, but there is unfortunately a bit left.
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I decided to stay on my meds same dose 6mg risperidone. If its not broke don’t fix it, I have no positive symptoms or anger issues now on my meds, if I lower the dose I will for sure.
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Are you angry, or is someone else angry, and their feelings squat in your head, intruding?
If you are angry, why not work through those issues, instead of medicating?
I recall you being like a doormat with your brother.
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I get angry at everybody if i lower my meds lol and its 24/7
How do I fix it?
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Well, it sounds like you’ve already talked to your pdoc about your anger issues and your doctor doesn’t think you have a mood disorder so medication is out of the question.
That leaves Anger Management Therapy.
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I know you are not a fan of therapy and such @Aziz, but I have all of these books and find them helpful for keeping myself in check:
The last one is my favourite. Anyhow, I think they have helped and I’m pretty sure that @Ninjastar will confirm that I am much less volatile than I used to be.
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Yeah, you went from francium to radium. Or maybe potassium.
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Ninja, i vote your tagline should be "Sudoku! 
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Hope your doing well 
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i guess because it would fall under the category of a mood disorder maybe? not sure.
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reminds me of a quote i read
it was like
“before you diagnose yourself as depressed make sure you are not just surrounded by asses”
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Depending on the shape it may actually be mood lifting. 
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There is a downside to having smart friends.
When I quit benzos I had anger problems for a while, but not anymore. Why not go to anger management class? I have been to it. I am a pretty peaceful person.
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I hate these shitty anger issues, I wish I had positive symptoms instead. I was on 10mg Abilify for 3yrs with no sz symptoms other than anger issues and hypersexuality. Now i am on the equivalent of 46mg Abilify, 6mg risperidone only bcz of anger issues. I feel like I have a personality disorder instead of sz but I read that szics are 7x more likely to commit homicide than normies and that being violent is sometimes a symptom of sz. I got angry at my last therapist yelled at her so she stopped calling me. I also yelled at my pdoc several times, once i went to court as he said i assaulted him verbally.
Yes goes away on my meds.
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