Can someone tell me - Relapse or Withdrawl?

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Please be aware of, and plan for, a relapse. The sooner you get it (treatment), the less the damage to your brain:

I've been a little naughty - come off my meds!

Please keep this in mind - and have a relapse plan in case things get bad: Relapse Early Warning Signs: ‘Dysphoric’ symptoms (depressed mood, withdrawal, sleep and appetite problems) are most commonly reported, while psychotic-like symptoms (for example, a sense of being laughed at or talked about) are less frequent. Furthermore, these symptoms generally occur in a predictable order, with non-psychotic phenomena occurring early in the illness, followed by increasing levels of emotional disturbance and, finally, by the development of frankly psychotic symptoms (Docherty et al, 1978). The progression occurs, most frequently, over a period of less than four weeks (Birchwood et al, 198…

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Brain Gray matter loss and inflamation associated with Development of Psychosis / Schizophrenia - Not Due to Medications

There is a lot of attention paid to the gray matter loss in the brain of people who have schizophrenia - by the antipsychiatry groups that blame medications on this brain change. A new study by Yale University and refutes that belief - it occurs even in those people not on medications: “Thirty-five individuals ultimately converted to psychosis and they showed a steeper rate of thinning in prefrontal cortex compared with those who did not convert and the healthy control group. Importantly, this tissue loss was not explained by exposure to antipsychotic drugs.” “Because this differential rate of tissue loss was observed among subjects who had never been exposed to psychiatric drugs, we c…