Because my last therapist said they can if you dont have true psychosis. And ive noticed i twnd to get better going off meds, for a while anyway, then ill relapse and go bakc on meds but continue to get worse. Its like a cycle and i cant tell if its the meds or what.
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Maybe this?
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That sounds exactly like me… what do i do about it
I’ve heard of people getting worse on APs on this forum. But usually it’s a specific AP and not all of them.
I think it’s pretty exceptional but not impossible.
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I feel like its been every med ive tried but im not sure.
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As much as I know about SZ from my research on it I’m not sure how they treat super-sensitivity psychosis other than med changes. I’d talk to your pdoc about it.
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In rare cases i think they can:
If i take a low dose of olanzapine i have very few thought disorder attacks. If i take a high dose of olanzapine i get attacks of thought disorder (a bit like hearing voices, just thoughts instead) all the time.
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I am the same way moon. I think the meds bring us back to who we might have been although medicated.
But when we stop we are like a plane with engines shut off above the clouds for a moment, the light shines and we are who we would have been without them. But then the darkness creeps back in and we fall.
At this point in my life i truely believe something is off physiologically with me and the meds correct that. I have also been made worse like having the opposite effect from abilify and latuda.
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I could see how aripiprazole/brex/cariprazine might but in reality probably not at all
My therapist agreed that me staying off my meds makes semse since they make me worse
Tapering off meds slowly helps supposedly
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I think that psychosis treated with many meds can improve/worsen symptoms. So if your own brain receptors don’t agree to the mix of meds you take then side effects or symptoms can worsen.
I suffet from dopamine decencybility coz I took 300 mgs Clopixol depot every week 10 years ago. Now I take 500 mgs Clopixol depot every 3.week. The amount of atypical antipsychotics was 240 geodon that is equal to the 900 mgs Seroqmuel that I take.now
I tend to have that feeling of getting worse on meds. I don’t perform well. Easy tasks look so difficult. And I am trying to counter it everyday which is exhausting. Hope is the only thing that drives me apart from meds which needs to be taken to be sober.
I’m back on meds and doing a lot better so I think I was misinformed by the therapist I was seeing, she didn’t believe I had sza but I had only seen her three times.
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Oh Groky I’m so happy on your behalf.
I think meds can make you better or worse. Or a bit of both, with some symptoms worsening and some getting better. Glad that they made you better.
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noway antipsychotics causes psychosis. its supposed to treat it how come it can induce psychosis?!!!
Marian it was just pure luck that I survived that toxic dose 10 years ago( I took the toxic dose for 5 years) but Clopixol protected me from mental meltdown
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I am sorry that happened to you. I’m also happy it prevented meltdown.
I think they can prevent horrible things. And also cause horrible things. Both.
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