I’m feeling better on 6mg vraylar. I’m just tired and sleepy. Hopefully I will adjust.
Yeah, Geodon. I also have gabapentin PRN, but I don’t take it often.
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Well, I’m an ex-commed Mormon and I’m done with religion. I’m also a 26 year member of AA so I’ve had to learn to get along with the whole “God” thing. I look at it this way:
Good
Orderly
Direction
Athiest or otherwise, I think we could all use a bit of direction in our lives. I’m just trying to take a live-and-let-live approach to it and keep on rolling.
As far as staying on topic, I don’t think I’ve ever felt normal, but I’m grateful to my A.P.'s for allowing me to pass as such when I need to. They provide much needed “social lubrication”.
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Seroquel is good for me. I feel normal. I feel like my natural self. I can enjoy things, and I have no problem with motivation. I don’t feel like I am under the effect of a drug most of the time.
I personally view the higher power referred to in A.A. etc, as the collective or community of all those who follow the path of recovery. We can’t do it alone. An example to those who’ve never experienced the outpouring love of this “higher power” is when someone says that they “are tempted” notice the outpouring of love and recommendationss to get in contact with that “higher power”. I find the serenity all powerful in my sense of the word, but faking “it” til I made it (an A.A. term) would’ve ended me back in insanity. Afterall when you’re still referred to as “demon possessed” after all these years, your volition, well
Rexulti does not do any of those things for me it just makes me normal.
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After reading some reviews on antipsychotics (Vraylar, just now), reading some of your replies, and reflecting on my own mental state and the way I think/feel around my father/people, for instance, I think I will tell my pdoc I’m willing to try something else. Perhaps I could benefit from antipsychotics, and G-d willing there is something that will make me feel ‘normal’ rather than blunted and lifeless.
It doesn’t sound normal to constantly try to control my thoughts when I’m around people, does it?
I’ve experienced all those things. I’m taking Risperdal too.
I’m on 120mg of latuda aswell .
I feel more normal on medication than off because I have less delusions.(almost none)
I have less schizophrenic symptoms.
Most of my symptoms go away.
My side effects from latuda are not to bad now (unless that itchy rash I e had all over my body for about two months is a side effect 
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I feel more like myself now than I did off medication with symptoms 24/7.
I feel pretty normal and calm right now. Just tired. Still adjusting to the new dose.
The only normal thing about me is my distaste at having schizophrenia.
Oh yeah, and I like dogs.
I took 80 at night 40 in the morning most seating out of all if took besides clozapine
2.5 is a really low dose shouldn’t make u tired
And if you have schizophrenia its not wise to stop medication
Number 1 rispersal isn’t that effective and 2 they dont EXCEPT CLOZAPINE
I think you should try a different AP. I’ve been on ones that made me blunted, but Vraylar has been pretty good to me. I’m not as creative, though, as I was before illness and before medication. But I can still paint sometimes and I still enjoy hiking and bike riding. So, I think there could be a good med for you out there, you just need to try more meds, maybe.
Yes it makes me feel pretty normal.
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When I first got on medication I was like a zombie and gained 30 lbs. The second time around I feel less delusional and more normal. However, my mind still races and has random thoughts poppping up here and there but overall I’m a lot more functional.
I feel pretty darn normal.
Just no motivation and little energy.