i think i am addicted to antipsychotics not because i like them but because they are the only way i can live life without suffering so much that i want to die, i do miss some of the stuff from psychosis but all the good memories are surrounded by ones that are close to the worst thing u can ever experience
We’re reliant on our meds (its a legal support system) but we aren’t thought of the same as drug addicts on the black market doing shady, sketchy illegal ■■■■for drugs that will kill them if they got cut with the bad stuff one time.
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It’s not much different from taking blood pressure meds or diabetes meds.
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yeah u are right but some people use antipsychotics to help them come down from a high or a trip
I’d rather someone use an anti-psychotic to block a bad trip/high than have to face the traumatization that occurs when you truly have a bad trip/experience with those types of drugs. That could hamper you the rest of your life with difficulties if you have too traumatizing an experience.
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That’s kind of like saying we’re addicted to food 
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What would be the worst thing you could ever experience?
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that makes sense before i was psychotic i stole and took phentermine its a stimulant kinda works like adderall and i think i overdosed because i took a few pills and snorted some of it and than me and my friend was exercising with a personal trainer and i couldn’t even do 20 pushups than i got in the car with my dad and i was shaking uncontrollably and couldn’t stop and i thought people were trying to kill me when they walked pass the car when my dad got out the car to get us food and i threw up when i got home i think that experience kinda made me realize something was wrong with me like i kept using weed but i kinda stopped messing with pills and syrup
now i don’t use any drugs and i am not really interested in them anymore
@Goyankees is right, we are reliant on our meds but not addicted.
There is a difference.
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Ya I’ve had bad experiences with drugs too. Now I try not to remember the details as much, but just chock them up as “bad experiences with drugs”. I dwelled on them for years and it never got me anything…so now I just acknowledge I made mistakes and move on.
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No ones ever gonna truly understand your drug trauma besides yourself. Drugs can be very traumatic. They are known for that. I tend to think they’re more likely to induce PTSD than SZ…Those types of drugs…But I’ve tried explaining my drug traumas to other people and they just say “well why’d you take them in the first place”…only I, only you will understand why you took them, and what really happened. So best kept to yourself I feel. But it’s cool if you wanna share with me, cuz i’m cool like that 
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Actually, technically, we aren’t addicted.
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i think i used the wrong word i should have said reliant or dependent sorry if i offended anyone we are not addicts i just meant that basically we need meds and we feel bad whenever we don’t have them
I need my drugs. But I have a prescription for them. I would admit to being addicted to Lunesta.
Being schizophrenic is hard if you can’t sleep. The symptoms just get worse
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"Aren’t we technically drug addicts"
i don’t see myself as a drug addict, and i don’t think my doctor would see me as a drug addict either.
DSM-5 substance use disorder definition and criteria all point to you not being addicted.
Yeah I feel you. I seem to be a reverse addict. I try and try to stay on the drugs but I keep going off. Me on meds and off are two completely different people…me off meds forgets how bad me off meds has it and is like feh I can manage it, I’ve always managed it, easy peasy 
every. Time. Often I even drop therapy too. Why. Literally the same result every. Time.
I think a part of me got really bored on APs though. Like one weird thing is they took away my ability to feel energy around me. It felt equivalent to having one of my senses removed. It was bizarre. And I couldn’t talk to my family, ie good voices because they just didn’t talk or were so faint…like they were 1000 miles away in my head…
Anyways we’re dependent on medication, that’s for sure. But that’s what having a chronic condition entails…