Getting worse. Emotional dump

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I can feel myself slipping into fatigue and brain fog as the honeymoon withdrawal symptoms are going away. It’s been a really good two months for me, and I guess I’m really sad I’m about to lose myself again to this illness. I’m grateful for the time I got, but I can’t help but wish for more time.

It really shatters me this time because I forgot it was only temporary. I thought it was my new normal. A good normal. Months of misery awaits me. I don’t know when’s the next time I’ll get air, just holding on to the hope that it’s sooner than i think.

I guess I’m really wondering how you all keep on going when a darker reality sets in?

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Are you being put on another antipsychotic med or are you coming off meds entirely?

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Tapering lithium to see if i even need it. It doesn’t seem to help me at all. Still on AP

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Oh I see. I thought you were coming off the AP. I misunderstood.

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There’s no shame in requiring a mood stabiliser. We all need a crutch sometimes, be it medicine or otherwise

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Oh, the thing is i was like this but worse on lithium. Mood stabilizer never helped my fatigue or my brain fog. It’s what I’ve been sick with for over 20 years only getting better with honeymoon withdrawal symptoms of many psych drugs. And also small periods of just being stable.

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If it were as easy as taking meds to get rid of this, I’d take them all. But my original illness has never been helped, ive just gotten more sick, and now i have sza from antidepressants

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