My answer. Yes, I have overdosed on medication many times. I had many different reasons. Most of the time voices were telling me to overdose. Few times it was a suicide attempt. Other times it was a self harm, sometimes I wanted to feel numb.
Unfortunately, I was overdosing on every medicine I had. Antipsychotics (Risperidone, Aripiprazole, Olanzapine, Quetiapine), antidepressants (Fluoxetine), benzodiazepine (Diazepam), sleeping pills… Even paracetamol.
drug overdose is very dangerous, so much so that it is considered a method of suicide.
Don’t overdose on your drugs, you have to be very careful, your life is at stake.
Yes. I used to routinely mix large amounts of alcohol and sleeping pills together. I wasn’t really trying to commit suicide, I was simply trying to make the sleeping pills go further with the alcohol.
Once I took several xanax and drank 3 bottles of wine. I decided to take a warm bath. I blacked out in the bathtub and woke up 2 hours later in a bathtub filled with puke. Somehow I didnt slip under the water and drown or choke to death on my own puke.
Thankfully, I haven’t felt the urge to do foolish things like that recently though.
I tried to bring up this matter with my therapist but was scared to. She didn’t get what I was implying just not outright telling her. It was a stupid meeting.
I’ve thought about it, but it’d be my luck it wouldn’t work and I’d be back in the hospital again. Besides I wouldn’t want my loved ones to be left with my burdens…
No. I tried to commit suïcide in several ways, but overdosing was not one of them. I am so incredibly scared of meds and I hate them so much and they are also part of my delusional system, so that I always openly or secretly “underdose” or quit whenever i get a chance…which can be very selfdestructive and stupid in a different way.
@mongolina only you can help yourself. contact a doctor and work on getting on a med that stabilizes you. good luck…you sound like you are in a bad way…
The med’s I overdosed on were not med’s that were prescribed to me. I came across a bottle of Klonopin, and a bottle of Atavan that this girl had left behind when she left our program. I took 13 Klonopin and 28 Atavan. It wasn’t a suicide attempt. I just wanted to get stoned. Those pills were stronger than I thought. I don’t remember any of it, but when my case manager found me, he said I couldn’t walk. They took me to the emergency room, and then to the mental hospital, where I detox’ed.
Never ODed on eds but considered it before. Thankfully I’m good about just processing negative thoughts and not indulging them, otherwise I’d have committed suicide a hundred times by now.
Maybe you should have your doctor right your prescription for weekly pickup, therefore you will only have one week worth of pills lowering the chance of death from an overdose.
I have overdosed on amitriptyline a couple of times, one time I went in a coma for 5 days and ended up with a tracheostomy which I have got for the rest of my life, which I really hate because I had social anxiety anyway, so now I never go out of the house.
It is very good how people can now talk about taking overdoses on the Internet, because everyone who has taken a overdose has regretted it.