By that you mean you take supplements? OR psychiatric drugs?
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Oh ok… i understand now…
But here in my case my psychiatrist is saying that i can completely come off my anti-psychotics and anti-depressents etc…
He says i can do it in 3 years
I am currently on amisulpride 200 mg and nothing else.
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At the first psychotic outbreak it is taken for 3-6 months. If there is a second psychotic outbreak, it takes 6 months-2 years. If there is a third psychotic episode, the antipsychotic is taken for life.
How do you feel with amisulpride?
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Where did you come up with those numbers?.
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I feel fine with amisulpride…
No positive symptoms at all.
And i am also out of depression…
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I wish you all the best in your life my friend
Namaste
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Namaste…
Thanks
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I almost always have symptoms, it comes down to if I’m handling them well and whether my insight is solid. I’m treatment resistant so the only way meds get rid of all of my positive symptoms is if I take such a high dose that I’m left a useless zombie with no cognition.
I have learned ways to manage positive symptoms through CBT and other types of therapy. I am trading life with ongoing positive symptoms for being able to work and earn a comfortable living. I’m doing okay. My negative symptoms continue to suck, but I do my best to push past them.
I am doing all of this with the blessing of several doctors. Don’t even think of trying to go off meds unless you have your medical team backing you up on it.
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My pdoc said she thinks I’ll always be on at least one AP.
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My pdoc tolds me. I think it’s the protocol
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I don’t see me ever coming off meds. They ended my career so I would certainly like to but I have been on APs and several other meds since 2008. Before that I never had a prescription for anything other than antibiotics if I had bronchitis or something.
I was a pilot when I got sick. I tried coming off meds for the first several years. Never worked out and my doctor wouldn’t let me anyway.
One day I stopped taking them. Things got really bad really quick.
If I could do without them I would.
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I wish I could come off meds and be au natural but I dont know.
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Peoples diagnosis can change… new drugs may be invented… or certain drugs may be will no longer be prescribed.
Well, I’ve been psychotic.more than 3 times, so…
Some people do, I would love to ween off of mine, but I don’t know. I always do a lot better when I’m on them is all I know, just had hate the dang side effects, ya know
I have been taking aps with one two week break for 39 years. I am trying to get back to a lower dose of zyprexa. I see my pdoc less than once a year so I am trying this on my own.
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It’s dangerous for me to come off meds. I have had many episodes and few different diagnosis. I don’t get sleep when I am off meds. I wake up so early and ruminate a lot. At least for sleep to be alright need to take some meds for me. But ofcourse there are down side as well which is slowed down activity of brain. For that we can take supplements and do some exercises.
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I guess you can never give up hope. Xanax was a game changer for me. I spent 7 years severely paranoid and afraid to talk.
That was a miracle drug. I used to take it every day. If I didn’t take it I got severe panic attacks and I was working the first 10 years of my illness. If I didn’t have one on me I had to drive home to get one.
I quit taking them about 2 and a half months ago. Haven’t needed even once.
Maybe there is hope one day.
I was also maxed out on Geoson and taking Latuda also.
I came off Latuda completely with no problem and I only take 40 mg twice a day.
But several years ago when I quit taking my meds and went completely batty I was only taking 20 mg of Geodon once a day. So I have taken less but I was very unwell then.
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My psychosis was so bad and prolonged, that I still feel delusional from the effect of it in my brain. I feel like I would automatically return to psychosis and delusion instantly without medication. Until I am on abilify and doing extremely well, and I’m talking well, I don’t have a chance of coming off. I don’t think I will ever be that good. But abilify is coming
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I got sick in 2009. Don’t need meds for psychiatric symptoms but for sleep.
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