I didn’t at first. I refused that I was mentally ill and that I needed meds to function normally. I told my psychiatrist that I am not sick and don’t need meds.
I went to court vs my psychiatrist to get out of mental hospital. I was keeping my meds in my mouth and then spat them out after the nurse is gone. Psychiatrist said refusing meds is part of the disease.
I lost in court and they kept me 6 months in mental hospital, sucks…
I convinced my other psy to stop my meds. I ended up trying to kill myself from the voices after a year of stopping meds…
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I learned to take my meds the hard way.
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Yes, it is a well recorded story about schizophrenics refusing meds. I did it!
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Probably took 8 years or so? I got a past life memory of some important figure telling me I truly have schizophrenia. I doubted it in my past lives. Past lives don’t exist, but are part of my matrix of thoughts and beliefs. That’s when the anosognosia went away.
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I totally don’t accept my schizophrenia. I just tolerate it until I find a good regimen that fully suppresses or cures it.
Glad you pulled through though @anon67051439!
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When I received my diagnosis of sza, I was relieved. I finally had a name for this horrible stuff that was happening, and had been happening to me for years.
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For now I don’t accept it I’m still thinking considering coming off meds.
But I do accept the possibility of having to go back on meds for life.
I accept that because I have no choice.
Denying it doesn’t help anything or anyone.
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When the second psychiatrist told me I have schizophrenia, I was thinking that every person/stranger i encountered knew about my diagnosis
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I literally decided on the basis of a pro’s and con’s list. Trying to proof the truth of either my delusions or the notion that I was psychotic got me nowhere.
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it took years for me to accept it sad times back then…now that i accept it…it has made me an all round better person in most areas of life…
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Stopping meds is dangerous for me. I stopped 3 times and became dangerous to myself and to others. I ended up trying to kill myself because I thought I was Jesus. I went to the emergency due to Tylenol overdose, I vomited many times there and on my way.
Drs told me I was close to completely kill my liver and I would have needed a liver transplant if I came late to the hospital. I still have liver pain from time to time especially when I eat fatty and dairy food.
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Do you realize that you almost killed yourself?
Doesn’t that bring home the fact that there’s something seriously wrong?
It does me. I almost killed myself as well. Stopping meds is dangerous for me too.
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That’s why I decided to take my meds for life now.
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Good for you!151515151515
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Last year while my grandpa was in the hospital, I stopped my meds for a few days because it made me hungry and I was tired of being scolded for overeating. That three days was all it took for my mom to notice that I was getting psychotic. I haven’t tried to quit my meds since.
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yeah then I can see why you do not stop meds that is for the best,
for me it took months before I became psychotic, once off meds plus every time I stop it always starts off in subtle ways, so far,
so if I decide to come off again I am not too worried about immediately plunging into full blown psychosis
having said that now… I cant be for certain what would happen but I can try my best to reduce risks and hope for the best.
basically if I decide to come off I have to accept crazy risks
that is why I am not certain if I will come off
Why do you want to come off? Do you feel bad on the meds?
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I accepted it after the first time I tapered down my meds on my own and realised I could absolutely not make it without meds.
It also helped that my psych sent me to psychoeducation, where I was taught about the disease and the symptoms.
Stopping meds is the devil itself for me.
Without meds I become the devil.
I don’t want to kill myself and other ppl.
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My life falls apart off meds, so just had to accept SZ or end up homeless and broke
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