Do your schizophrenia symptoms like inserted thoughts and voices and signs, do they sometimes tell you not to take your AP?
Sometimes I am told not to take meds. Haven’t been on a CTO in years and have no desire to again. I still take my meds and I don’t want to stop them because I feel better/calmer mentally. But I don’t want side effects and premature death as was communicated with me in signs. Just worried.
I’ve been taking antipsychotics since February 2013. I’ve never been able to take an antipsychotic for more than four consecutive months. But schizophrenia is a very heterogeneous illness. I have no voices and can live without antipsychotics until I experience an outbreak after 12 or 13 months.
not thought insertion for me as it is …
it’s indescribable. i just know the thought is there, it’s front and center, then, (???), and then a day’s passed and i haven’t taken them. what drives me away from doing it i can’t even put to words, but something else is there. if nothing else, it really feels like this is the case. kind of scary.
I don’t have inserted thoughts and voices and signs, but no, I usually don’t have a problem taking meds. My med holder fits two weeks worth of medication and I take morning and night meds and I miss about one dose of morning meds and one dose of night meds per two weeks. Sometimes less. I’ve successfully been on meds since 1981 - 44 years. They haven’t killed or hurt me so far. And I’m 64 years old, I’ve had schizophrenia 45 years. Missing doses occasionally doesn’t seem to hurt me.
I seriously lacked motivation on meds since 2011. I’ve stopped and quit meds before several times and always go back on. I was told the meds are supposed to help with motivation. I feel like I have slower thoughts and gained so much weight from meds. I probably felt a few times that I didn’t have schizophrenia and wasn’t sick. I think the longest I’ve been off meds since 2011 was almost a year. I get unbearable anxiety and anxiety and panic attacks and paranoia. I lost weight though.
Last time I went cold turkey off Vraylar I felt like a zombie.
I was told a few times stopping meds and going back on them makes them work less.
Mostly, though, I’ve taken meds since 2011. I think they help me and overall I think my current med Zyprexa is going really well.
Unfortunately, tobacco smoking and drinking excessive energy drinks makes things more complicated for me. It cancels out the meds and contaminates things. I don’t know. I was told once by my dad that if I didn’t drink energy drinks I might do okay without meds. But he changed his opinion a few years later. I guess I am sick.
I’ve gained 100 lbs since I’ve been on medication.
I have in the past when I have become unstable. Started to think they were acidic and such as some of them burn a bit if left in mouth.
I am on the injection now and have no issues taking meds. I will never mess with my meds again unless it is absolutely necessary. Not going through that again.
I forget taking meds i am really not sure why 
It’s not I skip but I forget.
I have again planned up placing the meds in pill Holder so if I forget I make sure I take it as soon I remember
I almost got tazed by the cops last time I refused my meds, so I’m trying to be a good boy
I don’t struggle to take my meds. I never miss a tablet.
I don’t struggle to take my meds. I know i do better with them than i do without them. Last time i went off meds about 5 years ago it was a nightmare, with full-blown delusions and hallucinations after not sleeping for 4 days. Never again.
I take my meds everyday religiously
I don’t forget or skip doses
I can’t afford to do that
No if I stop taking them it’s a free ride to the psych ward.
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