Haven't been here for a while... Just an update

[anon18305065]

I was starting to show signs of relapse a few months ago. My psychiatrist decided to give prozac a chance. It was a disaster. It made me nauseous and dizzy and my paranoia flared up.

So we upped my abilify to 30mg for a few weeks with no change in symptoms. A month ago he took my Abilify down to 25mg and added 5mg Valium. It made me more tired but it did wonders for the symptoms.

I am now down to to 2.5mg Valium a day and doing fine. I never wanted to use a benzo because it is so addictive but now it seems to be what I needed to pull me through psychosis. I haven’t been on here for a while and I thought I’d share an update with you on my condition.

I hope you are all doing well.

[everhopeful]

Well done on getting through your rough patch.

I keep going back and forth with myself about whether or not having some benzos to hand is a good idea or not. I still miss benzos.

[Hop3]

That’s great things are going well now. Glad you made it through the relapse and things are better now. I feel benzos can be an amazing thing to have on hand for psychosis. I don’t need them every day just when things get really rough.