What was your situation like before and what does it look like now?
Are you better able to live your life now and be more independent on antipsychotics?
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My life has gotten better and better ever since I decided to be med compliant. One day I had enough of being psychotic and living with one foot in darkness and the other in the real world.And I finally accepted that I had a medical illness. And that this illness required a medical treatment i.e. psychiatric medication.
I’ve had relapses, but mostly due to me doing clinical trials. But I always get help when I need to and get back on the meds I need.
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Eased the racing thoughts and paranoia. Since meds I don’t do too badly and can have real relationships with people especially romantic ones. Before meds I was way too paranoid to get too close to people. Really did change my life for the better.
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I have really bad paranoia that comes at night only…
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I’m considering taking a very small dose of antipsychotic to help me with it
I really hope it helps improve the quality of my life
Do antipsychotics act like an antidepressant and antianxiety too?
Do any of you struggle with aggression or obsessive thoughts?
There are both advantages and disadvantages of being on or off APs.
You just have to weigh them out, individually, and accordingly, and decide for yourself.
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Yeah I’m considering a small dose of an AP to help with paranoia and obsessive thoughts along with depressive and anxiety problems…
Decide for yourself.
Dont let anyone make decisions for you.
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That’s a really good piece of advice
Thank you…
I’m wondering if this is still part of withdrawal from the Invega I stopped 9months ago… or if this is my original illness
Half life is about 48days
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No worries. 151515
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My thought processes have slowed down, my psychosis has not re-emerged, the voices are pretty well much taken care of and my paranoia is also much improved. I’m better able to live my life now than i was before. However, the Schizophrenia still has consequences for me. I’m not very good at working full time at work. It tires me out and as a result of that i become somewhat catatonic. This upsets me as i want to live a normal life. I don’t like admitting that i have some deficits in my life despite the medication.
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My situation was really bad before. I had paranoia, delusions, visual hallucinations, my voices were really annoying (they wanted me to do bad things) and my toughts were disorganized. My speech was weird. Antipsychotics have given me stability. They don’t stop my voices and visual hallucinations at all, but the other symptoms have almost dissapeared.
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I can’t say that the ap meds have helped me. I suppose I’m treatment resistant type. I hear they help some, so I am happy for them.
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The Risperidone and Abilify: they cut my voices down from nearly constant chatter in my head down to just whispers and the occasional flair up. Decreased the amount of episodic days. Keeps me out of the hospital.
lamictal: Keeps me from my massive depressive swings. I used to get real bad depression, hopeless suicide ideation for weeks and months. Haven’t had one of those in a long time.
Zoloft: Helps with my day to day depression, ennui, and really helps with my Intrusive thoughts.
The meds have made my life better.
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How AP helped me. I was in hospital then sent to one more intensive out of town. When there a pdoc put me on risperidal and my life started to change immensely. Prior I was only on mood stabilizers. I got out and went home with my family and was no longer suicidal bc I was no longer in torture. I can’t truly describe how I felt prior except living in immense fear. Totally anxiety. Felt everyone and everything was connected to the people who follow me. Thought they went through extensive effort of hiring many people and everything was bugged and everyone was taking pictures. I could think straight and has huge nervous energy but could barely get off my bed most of the time. Thought the hospital was putting bleach in my water so hubby brought me bottled water. When I put it down for a second they bleached it again I thought. Everything felt like noise. I felt confused and needed lists broken to try to take a shower or anything and still could not often. To me my AP made all difference and had a calming affect but never got me back to where I was before I had begun deteriorating. (6 years before when initially diagnosed bp1 years before. I just never got myself back and still have fairly bad anxiety and feel paranoid a little and have some magical thinking which is whatever, who cares about that - mag thinking part of schizotypal.
I guess I just need to be grateful if not being where I was instead of feeling crappy about where I am now. Still not myself but better than I was then.
If a pdoc recommends AP meds I would def give it a try but that’s just me.
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Anti-psychotics have saved my life, and without them I couldn’t live the life that I do
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For me the issues are still there but they are easier to cope with while taking medication — however despite some side affects my meds saved my life!
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AP’s got rid of most of my delusions and paranoia. I still get breaktrough symptoms. I have some serious concentration/cognitive issues. But… If it weren’t for AP’s, I wouldn’t be alive today.
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Yes I’m noticing debilitating fear and paranoia at night
Along with not being able to stop over thinking everything
Along with anger issues and obsessive thoughts and attachments
I also have a very poor social life due to always being so caught up in my head and the paranoia I feel throughout the day
I hope it will help with my social life and paranoia
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