Tonight I feel strange, not better or worse, just different. We just dropped aripiprazole from 20 to 15mg, I’m thinking maybe that has something to do with it. In class today I felt strange, like someone dropped me on a different planet or something, it doesn’t feel unpleasant, if anything I feel more present and in the moment. Things seem to also have more significance for me now. I wonder if these are the early signs of relapse or what. My pdoc just okayed me to try saphris instead of seroquel as a prn, hopefully this change will be well recieved by my brain, alternatively everything which could go wrong might go wrong. If I can hold off on being hospitalized until the endof my first semester at college that will be a win. If worst comes to worse I know where I’ll have to go. This would be my first relapse ever though.
Does anyone who has relapsed remember the signs of what happened before it set in? What are the real warning signs I should look for?
Hang on @Anon10.
Sometimes lowering the AP dose makes you feel as if you dropped Acid (LSD)
Makes you feel strange.
I would still bring it up with your psychiatrist.
I’ve never dropped acid but that makes sense, y’know 5ht2a antagonism and all that. Especially with abilify the lower doses really drop off on that receptor.
Voices go from murmurs to out of control discussions inside your mind; there is fatigue yet incredible energy driving your actions, strange insights about the universe; you become alienated to the point that human contact becomes entirely superfluous to your life; changes in your routine at home and outside with friends; compulsions to do things that you know are dangerous but can’t stop because of the voices; hallucinations of inanimate objects instructing your every move; Fear, tearfulness.