Hi everyone 
I’m just wondering if it’s possible (without symptoms (voices, paranoia…)) and if so for how long…
I’m not planning to stop taking my meds nor do I encourage such behaviour : taking our meds is vital to be stable and we should listen to our pdoc advices!
But just out of curiosity…I would like to know.
Probably for about a month.
After going off all my meds I did remarkably well for a month. I was fantastic. No real symptoms at all, depression or psychosis. I even stopped seeing my therapist weekly.
Now I’m a hot mess.
a day i think 
About a year once. I was fine and then BOOM I got hit so hard I was committed to a state hospital for trying to stab a guy with a fork.
If i go off my meds then I start to notice symptoms after three days, I start to feel strange in my head, like a fizzing agitation and jumbled thoughts, and get intrusive thoughts, then the voices and self harm return. If i go back on my meds it takes about a month or two or three to feel good again. I’ve learned the hard way several times.
I went off meds in January, and it took until late April to have a relapse. 3 months. I thought I was home free until one night at work the voices came back and were commenting on everything I was doing. It took two months of being on meds to make them go away again. I still think about trying again though. Maybe in five years or something. I used to be diagnosed amphetamine psychosis though.
The longest I’ve ever gone symptom-free without medication in my adult life has been around a few months at most.
But
My episodes tend to gradually wind up and then reach critical mass after a few weeks or months. And it’s usually only when things are reaching critical mass that it becomes really obvious that I am having symptoms.
So theoretically I can be “symptom free” in my own mind for quite some time while actually experiencing all sorts of problems.
I had a med-free run of two years
After relapsing, it usually takes 3 to 4 days for the meds to work in getting rid of the delusions.
A day. Usually if I skip a daily dose of Seroquel, I’ll experience withdrawal (stomach pains). Nausea if I skip more than a day.
wow I am so envious
First 2 years, then a few months, a few weeks, a few days. Ever shorter. A couple of these tries were cold turkey though.
Right now i’m on a very tiny dose of meds. It is going well now for a while, but every time something changes within me (eg i’m emotional tired or startled) i am scared of relapse. I am very alert to my mental State.
I will not lower meds any further for now, might even go up.
3 hours. But I always have symptoms every day. mental illness is not in remission. 3 hours off antianxiety and triggered into disorganization and frozen unable to do anything.
I now take 60mgs of Geodon. I got to see myself transition from Zyprexa to Geodon without feeling any symptoms for four days. After that, it took Geodon six days to get into my system and I felt everything and I hate it.
To know for sure, it depends on your body weight and how well the meds work with you for you to know the safe zone of how long you can go without your meds. I have a two day window to be safe, though I refuse to let my schizo side out.
I am the same with the gradual wind up, my episodes don’t usually just strike at full force out of nowhere. The sad thing is that now I am aware when my symptoms start popping up again but I have this hope “maybe they will just go away on their own” but it starts getting worse and by the time I realize I’m really in trouble getting the right services and whatever again takes far too long and it just ends in disaster.
Mental health services are painfully slow moving…psych meds can be painfully slow to act…even if you catch an episode in its earliest stages you may just end up helplessly watching yourself fall into it as it takes weeks to make an appointment or for meds to work.
About ten minutes
Like half a week
six months once. Then i was hospitalised on and off for 3 years- spending over a year incarcerated