If you don’t mind my asking why aren’t you on meds?
I go through a period of euphoria when I come off my AP’s. It’s usually short lived, though, and then I get in real trouble.
I don’t mind you asking. I never said that I stopped the meds. I’ve heard other people stopping. I’ve read on this forum some people said the meds completely stop the voices and they get worried bc it’ too quiet. I also watched a “Law & Order” episode where the man was schizophrenic, homeless but an amazing artist. The voices wouldn’t stop while he lived on the streets and didn’t take medicine. Finally, when he got help and started meds, the voices went away, he said he couldn’t paint anymore and felt alone without the talking. In that episode of Law and Order he ended up taking his life.
I take chlorpromazine, but am looking into something else: either Haldol or Geodon. What meds do you take?
Yes I think you should adjust your meds if you are still hearing voices and don’t do street drugs.
I’m sure the OP is no longer checking on who has been posting in here, but I’d like to add my two cents.
It was a high of a sort when it was happy psychosis. It does have a wish fulfillment element built into it. At other times it was torture of the kind that causes suicide.
I hope this helps you to understand what it is like a little better. It is just a head soap opera dream that immobilizes you from the negative symptoms. Call it head TV.
I remember you saying you spent 16 years or something on lithium alone. Meaning no schizophrenia 
Although the dx was later changed to schizoaffective my blood test forms initially said schizophrenia. In the early 80s there was a move to try people with schizophrenia with a noticeable mood component/schizoaffective on lithium .as monotherapy
Yes, Yes, YES!
I’d say a good third of the prescribers out there (and more than half of the ER docs and GPs) OD the pts with anti-Ps. The sophisticated psychopharmacologists began to get hip 20 years ago. More and more of them titrate really slowly now, and many understand that the ranges of tolerance & therapeutic effectiveness in individual pts vary tremendously.
I get a lift off of the noise with 12.5 mgs of quetiapine now after starting at 75 and moving up to 150. I’ve seen others who have to take 3600 over the course of a day. Feh.
The thrill of psychosis, one of the worst things i’ve ever heard right there.
Im bored as hell but psychosis wouldn’t exactly be a great alternative, i always end up fleeing and seeing spirits everywhere and almost dying. It was sheer terror the entire time.
I love how I feel off my meds. When I’m on meds I always feel like part of me is missing. But those voices are what bug the ■■■■ out of me and makes me go get drunk and then I end up in jail…so for now I stay medicated.