I feel like my meds make me smarter than off meds. Whenever I take my meds late by an hour or 3, I lose my train of thoughts losing words from my working memory, also my thoughts become disorganized. Last time I stopped my meds for 2yrs I got disorganized thoughts to the point of talking and writing word salad and gibberish like some previous members here who went off meds.
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the last time i went off meds was about 7 years ago it was the last time i went off meds for about a year
i got very confused and couldn’t function mentally or physically
also had the disorganized thoughts and loss of words
wasn’t for a year back on meds that i became some what “normal”
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My head has been a mess for a few years now
Sort of learning to tune out of it
Means that simple everyday things I don’t think about
Hoping my new job will give me back some structure. Not sure about that though
This was one of my worst symptoms, but it’s not as bad as it was unmedicated thankfully
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I’ve never had word salad, but there are definitely days where my thinking is comparatively better than it is on other days. I’m never quite sure whether the drop in thinking ability leads to increased anxiety or whether it’s the other way round. What I do know is that I don’t do well when stressed/under pressure .That’s always been the case from as far back as I can remember. Exams wise it was invariably a case of ‘how will I perform on the day?’
I don’ think meds have had much of a positive or negative effect on my cognitive abilities except when I was on very high doses in the mid 1970s to early 1980s.
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I had it when they diagnosed me
The weird thing about it is I thought me and the doctors were actually having a conversation
In the report it was quite the opposite.
They had no idea what I was trying to say at all.
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At the best of times it can be really frustrating trying to have a constructive conversation with a mental health professional.More than a few times their inability to grasp where I’m going from has resulted in my stress levels ramping up. The more intelligent you are the more frustrated you’re likely to be.
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They help more with cognition than I would be without them, but they still do mess with my cognition some.
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Yea I feel like they slow me down mentally.
When i forgot to take zyprexa on a few days
I get strange too.
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