I’ve just lost sympathy for people who are
- off meds
- on a sub therapeutic dose
AND
Then complain about things that the meds at a correct dose would fix.
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this certainly is for me…! but i am seeing my pdoc and therapist …!!! I am maximum dose of sleeping tab and my diagnosis is confusing …!!! i may need mood stablizer…!!!
My problem is that i don’t trust pdoc and medicine …!!!
If I were on meds I’d be complaining about med side effects so either way I’m complaining 
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meds aren’t everything. i have yet to have my sz controlled and i’m on 40mg zyprexa 1500mg depakote. i’ve tried a plethora of pills. i think most on this forum have tried a lot of pill combos. my doc seems to think clozapine will solve all my problems but i’ve been on it before and the side affects are too much for me. CBT has been something that helps me maintain insight. i really think therapy is more helpful than meds.
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Yeah I’ve tried quite a handful of meds at this point. According to therapist I am just highly sensitive to medication because I experience intolerable side effects on all of them. It’s like they remove my psychosis but give me an anxiety disorder or some form of mania. Just not worth it.
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I do get pretty impatient, yes - though this extends to people who won’t give therapy a fair shot, too. I generally get frustrated with people who expect a single thing in a perfect shape to solve all problems, and reject anything that isn’t in this ideal package.
Part of it is that I suffer from severe lifelong depression, and the only way through for me is a slow trudge through heavy slog. Improvements are incremental - there is no deus ex machina.
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I do have sympathy, because I think many of us quit or reduce the meds because of the intolerable side effects. I’m currently on a low dose and it’s not enough to control my symptoms. The mood swings and psychotic symptoms are hell, but so is being so sedated it’s an effort to move, akathisia, drooling, weight gain, loss of libido etc. I envy those who can find a therapeutic dose their body can tolerate, it’s been 10 years of trial and error for me and I’ve never yet found a combo that keeps me acceptably stable without horrendous side effects. But yeah, I would be a bit miffed if someone who actually felt well physically and mentally on the meds decided to quit them then started complaining about being unwell.
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I get more annoyed at the kids who come on here and spam the forum with their symptoms but refuse to talk to their parents and see a psychiatrist.
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You are right somewhat but accept that for some people bearing side effects is as hard as bearing the illness itself.
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I sometimes think some ppl come to this forum and make up stories to get us to talk to them like we’re some science experiment.
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Sometimes I think people come to this site to get stories so they can tell a psychiatrist to get a diagnosis.
I’m a very cynical person though.
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Don’t trust them but carefully work with them and see how things happen, change docs change meds, you should risk at this point, you should eat the this suspicious pills and work with these bad people, you will be saved or ruined but without eating them you will be ruined for sure, so move forward with care🙋
Yes, i feel sorry for them.
Medications will slowly kill you, you’ll sink deeper and deeper into pain and despair.
But without them it will kill you, and you’ll sink deeper into pain and despair.
I’m beginning to believe that people just stroke off on not giving sympathy, i think they just enjoy the feeling and delusions that feed it.
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I feel sorry for myself if I complain 
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