Can brutal discontinuation of antipsychotics leads to pyschosis?

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I was wondering this because 4 years ago I brutally stopped my Invenga injection and refused to take pills of Risperdal to help me to cope with withdrawal symptoms. It was a mistake and it has led to my first psychosis crisis ever.

Pdocs considered this as a relapse while I never had a psychosis breakdown before and diagnosed me with schizophrenia.

I made some researches and I wanted to know if stopping meds like this could lead to psychosis especially when they’ve been taken for like 2 years without interruption ? Is this a myth or something true proved by serious scientific litterature ?

Thanks in advance for your answers !

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I don’t believe withdrawal can cause psychosis in healthy individuals.

Edit: My opinion changed, did some research on it. Seems possible!

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I was taken off of antipsychotic and had psychotic breakdown 7 months later.

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Invega affects Dopamine and Serotonin receptors in the brain regardless of who takes it.
It seems obvious that immediately stopping injections without coming off of it slowly could cause psychosis.

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I have had bad results from stopping meds cold turkey. It’s a bad idea.

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The last time I had a psychotic break, I was taken off AP’s abruptly and within 2 days, I was experiencing non stop auditory and visual hallucinations and paranoid delusions. Maybe it was a withdrawal syndrome? My pdocs didn’t say it was.

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