3 weeks off now! It’s been a hellish experience. I keep telling myself i’d rather die then go back to the pills though.
Are they addictive? And maybe my hard times are from withdrawals? Or is it more likely i’m relapsing without em?
Had chest pains all day. It feels like my chest muscles are strained and aching or something, miserable feeling.
They aren’t addictive but they do have withdrawals and coming off them to fast can cause psychosis.
Okay thank you for input.
I’ll stick it out and hope for the best. Doctors don’t know how to wothdraw patients from them anyways and I don’t either.
You could be going through withdrawal - that’s why going off meds needs to be done with medical supervision. Your positive symptoms are also likely ramping up on you. You should be looking to get back on meds ASAP if you’re having this hard of a time of it.
There is no evidence pointing to APs being addictive. Some of the anti-anxiety meds, you bet.
No idea where you’re getting this bad info from. There are well-established protocols for tapering patients down from the various meds safely.
I called a crisis hotline. They set me up with some numbers for services who see non-medicated people as well so that I don’t have to feel like i’m gonna be forced on it if I don’t want to. I’m open to whatever at this point. Just seems like i’ve been stuck in this loop for ages now 
Man, I know. It’s frustrating when nothing is working the way you need it to.
Sending lots of (((hugs)))
Thanks velo :)) much love
Good luck, there are people with more severe illness that experience symptoms earlier than others when going off meds from what I heard from fellow mental illness sufferer
Yes, medications are always addictive. It has to be controlled every time.
To be honest I don’t know how well-established the protocols are. I wouldn’t be surprised if doctors taking patients off APs suggested a taper. But equally, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t know a specific protocol for this. I don’t know a lot of doctors that would advocate for bringing patients off APs so I don’t think a lot of them would have wealth of experience doing this. There is a little bit of a gap in the literature with tapering I think. It exists it’s just not well known because it’s not common practice.
@Bagul1 I definitely agree that if you are really struggling you should probably be getting back on an AP asap. Stabilise regather your resources mentally and try again, it takes time and that’s also okay. Going on medication again doesn’t mean giving up hope it just means that all good things take time, especially in healing. Don’t think of it as a step backward, if you have to have to take them again. You need to frame things around making the right decision for your health medication or no medication.
I don’t think APs are addictive but if you stop suddenly at high dose you can get withdrawals always better to taper
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