I don’t think so. Soon I’ll be AP free, even if that entails to believe we live in a demonic simulation. I refuse to surrender to living a living death.
Good luck but everytime I quit meds for a year I ended up nearly killing myself from suicide, it landed me in the emergency with antidote for poisoning and liver damage, then to mental hospital.
From what I’ve read in some of your comments your positive symptoms appear to be more pronounced than mine. I worry chiefly about my negative and cognitive symptoms.
Psychotic is the worst.
Feels like I’m so alone. The public out there weren’t the public and I could start to see slips in my family too 
I’m afraid of psychosis
It doesn’t have to be either/or.
There are plenty of antipsychotics to try and plenty of different doses. The goal should always be the lowest dose that keeps you well and functional.
I’ve had AP’s that made me feel like a dead zombie. Now I’m on one that perks me up instead. I have a change coming, and I worry the new AP will steal my emotions again.
But I’d rather be a bit flat, than be tormented by psychosis.
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Which ap gave you back your emotions?
I have tried 4 and nothing worked, my pdr there is no meds for negative symptoms, I gave up.
Latuda did.
I was in Invega, and I couldn’t cry, couldn’t yell, couldn’t laugh.
When I started Latuda, I was suddenly able to do all those things, and participate more in conversations.
It was like I cared more about the world around me, but not in an overwhelming way.
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the best way to reduce negative symptoms is to discover ways to reduce stress and then lower the dose of the med if the pdoc agrees.
(man I smell nice food downstairs)
have you ever tried lowering the dose of your med with the help of a pdoc
I don’t recommend people to do that unless they feel comfortable to!!!
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Latuda didn’t help me, I took 80mg for a year.
Everyone has different effects from medication I guess.
I wasn’t stable with anything under 25mg Abilify.
80mg Latuda gave me occasional paranoia and delusions while watching political news.
I am on 3mg Risperdal now, I don’t think I can go lower. I am stuck.
wow that’s not bad. ok hope it goes well I suppose you are only just starting out on that. you still adding abilify too?
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I’m currently taking Latuda. It hasn’t helped me at all with my negatives.
Max dose per pill for Risperdal is 4mg.
I stopped Abilify, it started to make me hypersexual again, too much masturbation and very fast ejaculation. That didn’t feel comfortable.
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@pr21 you were told to stop recommending supplements.
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I use to take 6mg rispiridal
I’m afraid of psychosis, but I’m even more afraid of a living death.
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Sometimes I wonder if my life without aps would be better.
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Both dead feeling and psychosis are bad to experience. With deadness I can’t feel things and with psychosis my mind is too active to the point of agitation.
Maybe psychosis worse as it’s more acute. But fortunately I’m more inclined to feel dead. My psychosis is not as severe as my deadness. Only thing is my deadness as it lasts longer is more disabling.
So it’s hard to say what’s worse really. The one is feeling too much and the other too little. No balance either way.
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