After stopping meds how long does it take to go psychotic? I have no doubt that I will, I just want to know when hypothetically.
Also I noticed I can type on my phone much faster now. Like lightening speed
It varies for everyone. For me, it took eight weeks.
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Took about 7- 10 days for me, just hit me like a brick wall 
why is my mind so feeble prescribed drugs help x
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Why are you stopping meds @Moonwalker? 
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It took me about a week before I started losing it.
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I’m just pausing meds and it will probably be for a feeble 3 days. I just want to see the withdrawal symptoms and also to test how quick the voices might come back.
just for the experience.
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Remember that if you relapse, you are less likely to respond to your original medication and dose the next time around. So you could end up on a much higher dose or different medication.
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Yeah that freaks me out, definately taking my meds tomorrow
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It happened to me. Now I have to take 80 mg instead of 40. Lesson learned.
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That’s quite serious, sorry to hear. I guess there is no safe way to test if you’re in remission
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There actually is a safe(ish) way. When you have been stable on the same dose for over two years with absolutely zero symptoms, you can ask your doctor about slowly lowering your dose. Very slowly, like 10% every two months. Increase therapy appointments during this time, so you are closely monitored. If it is successful, hooray! Continue with therapy to monitor yourself and such. If not, your doctor and therapist can increase your dose again at the first sign of trouble. There are still risks, and it isn’t recommended for everybody. But this is the only plan that even sort of works.
If you still have any breakthrough symptoms at all, this plan isn’t for you, and you just need meds forever.
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Uhhh 2 weeks I think after stopping Risperidone I had a spike in psychosis. I think it was similar for abilify. Latuda I wasn’t really on long enough to get any rebound psychosis. Geodon weirdly the spike came like 2-3 months after quitting. Had a real bad flare up for like a week I think that was scaring people on here and stressed me out to where I was about to go back on an AP. But it passed and I’m normal again. Since geodon has the shortest half life of all those I mentioned maybe it was just unrelated psychosis. I was revisiting traumatic things in therapy at the time as well.
What I heard is that generally if you are multi episodic you should not attempt to go off an AP because practically no one who has had multiple episodes of psychosis is just going to have it magically stop. However the goal in psychiatry is to have people stable on the lowest therapeutic dose possible. So if you’re getting bad side effects and know you were put on a high dose during an episode (many times a higher dose is needed to treat acute psychosis than for general symptom maintenance) I think it would be worth it to see if you would be stable at a lower dose.
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lost mom, dad, and sister, husband raging, moved, even job title changed at work, mistreated,
whatever is too much seems to do it for me.
I didn’t stop mine suddenly but I came off them very quickly and it took about 2 weeks.
After I stopped the quitiapine altogether then there was a very rapid decline in functioning as far as eating, sleeping and showering etc.
That led to physical health problems. This freaked me out. I don’t plan on doing it again. At least not my way and at least not in the forseable future anytime soon.
Why are you assuming you’ll become psychotic again after 3 days off? How many days has it been so far?
I’m on my 3rd day off now
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How is everything in terms of symptoms. Ru stilll typing faster?
Day 3: just one up and making coffee. I slept 10 hours and I feel AWAKE. Getting a cup of coffee as usual. No problems falling to sleep from voices or anything
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my understanding is the brain creates more dopamine receptors because of the medication, that’s why the psychosis can be worse than the original. some european studies have shown great success with much less medication initially, creating much fewer receptors. like you, since i take an antipsychotic, i’m not risking stopping it. also my lcsw said with every psychotic episode my brain may not be resetting back to prior ability. considering i might be getting dumber with every episode, motivates me highly to reduce stress in my life.
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