I got this idea and feel rejuvenated immediately. Feel like i will have more control towards life without meds than otherwise. Feel so depressed taking meds each and everyday. Like it created a label on my face that i am a psychotic. Meds are all about Psyche or Placebo effect. That effect can be created with the natural medication like food, water, etc by enjoying it. Just want to live freely and enjoy. Will face whatever happens in the due course. I dont think there will be anymore psychotic episodes just for the fact that i have been through enough and created enough trouble for others as well. I want to believe i am normal and not a psychotic in the world i am in. Maybe i am wrongly prescribed or diagnosed. Its just the mindset that is the problem. There obviously will be opposition but will face it with courage and hope. let that prove i am strong and not confused.
An anti-depressant really helped me.
Anti medication will help me. 
I honestly hope you are right. But recently you complained about voices and intrusive thoughts. What happened to them??
I advise against that. You have a job to go to , it’s not gonna end well.
Its out of no hope towards solution to my problems. Thinking hard towards solution brought me to this state now I now honestly believe that stopping meds will change me for good. I was going downhill every day with the help of meds. I want to stand for myself and not with meds. It immediately stopped those horrific voices rather gave me positive energy.
Exactly the opposite. I might lose the job with meds. I look like a looser with it. It virtually has created a very bad impression. I am not able to take care of myself properly. Its easy now to think on my feet.
i hope you know what you are doing, I hope you are okay with your decision. I have come off meds before and it wasn’t good. I had symptoms about a few weeks after I quit. now I am better than ever, I am on injections and I feel great. but I still have breakthrough symptoms.
I am completely okay with my decision. I dont want to breakdown, cry or worry. having medications have worsened my state than being psychotic. I was happy before the episode. Due to meds i am not able to express myself. It feels like i am jobless and homeless though i have them. Strange but true. After the decision. I want to stick to it for life and live a normal peaceful life with my family. Now i am typing normally. Thinking straight. But with meds i think 2ce 3ce everytime. It increased the symptoms rather. In my situation i feel what i am doing right now is right. I have enough knowledge about how the episode begins and what can be done to control it.
I guess everyone goes through this stage at least once. Quitting meds. Feeling euphoric… often it doesn’t end well. But maybe you will be luckier than 90% of people.
Do what you want, man. We will be here as your safety net, if you run into trouble again.
Keep some medicine handy in case there is an emergency.
I stopped meds a couple of times, never has it had a good ending
I dont want to sound too elated with this. I am just expressing with thoughfulness. I am seeing through the series of events in my life and it does not make a shortest of sense to me that i needs to take meds. I am here and writing because there are more intelligent like you and experienced people than me. Emergency strikes I am rooting for the best option at that moment.
With meds every day is a bad ending for me nowadays.
Sadly your beliefs that it is just placebo effect are false, there is a great deal of research demonstrating the efficacy of antipsychotics. There is a very high chance you will relapse once you go off meds. You’ll feel great for a few days, maybe even a week, and then it goes downhill from there. And if unmedicated with each relapse a person’s psychosis can actually become more severe and develop more symptoms, if you saw my recent thread about that.
Maybe i am ignorant about placebo. But my beliefs are abosultely right towards leading a happy life than confused and searching for something thats not there. Its pure loneliness and boredom that mixed my feelings and thoughts towards negative side from various forms of incidents and exaggerated the situation. Thus creating a huge deal with the ego to clash with the reality. For my situation. The theory you have differs from person to person with the amount of severity the episodes are and perceived. I dont want to feel great, just want to be normal without psychosis which i can understand where it stemmed from. And I forgive myself and others for that.
Well as I said. For 90% people who stop taking meds, it doesn’t end well. I am in the other 10%, I stopped my AP a while ago and so far I am better off than before. Maybe you will get lucky too. But please have a medicine stash ready, in case things start going south.
Medicines are gonna go downhill. How hard the life maybe i will face it. I want to believe in simple life. Not try to do something smart or go hard on myself. Good to know you are in 10%. I purely believe in letting go of bad past and sell myself to slowly crawl my way back to normal. The number game and medication theories i dont want get into that too much. There is a lot to learn in that and to be learned as well. Its for those who have interest in them. I have now interest in life.
I stopped taking my medication because it made me feel weak and robbed of my sentience. Also it felt like they just weren’t working very well with my symptoms.
Immediately, I realized my mistake. You don’t feel how well the medication is working until you stop taking it. The crazy hit me like a brick wall, in addition to starting withdrawal. It was miserable.
My husband was upset, I had to go to the hospital for like a month. Horrible.
I did eventually stop my medication after doing a lot of CBT and other therapy. Right now I don’t take anything and I’m still not 100% it was the right decision. Sometimes I feel out of control and don’t want to admit I need medication or admit that I made a mistake trying to get off of it.
Anyway, think on it a little more, man. I guess you don’t know what is best for you at different points of life until you try, but be careful, the consequences are very real.
No ones perfect. I know this could be a phase, but carefully assessing it. Confidence that i can lead a routine life without any confusion and pain in my mind is what i want. I think about these stuff every day. Its like my bread and butter. I have not jumped on it and want to go back because of any reason. Only way from here is normalcy and happy life once i lived. I want it and will get it. I am not gonna worry about a distant dark future. No more haunting feelings.
If you are going to do this then better a gradual reduction under the watchful eye of a mental health professional , and making a family member/friend aware so they can spot signs of relapse you may miss.