How long did it take you to get back on your feet after your last Psychosis?

Assuming that you are back on your feet.

Months? Years? A decade?

Did you have a period of time where you felt like you couldn’t do anything? How long did it last if so?

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Im going now through psychosis recovery, it happened last year summer. Was hospitalized for 2 months. Last time from my first psychosis I got better after 3-4 years. Im also going through Invega withdrawal symptoms, having dizziness and cloudy mind since stopping now

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It took years for me to stop thinking my enemies were going to hunt me down and kill me. After I moved in 2019 I stopped thinking that would happen and now that I moved again this year I’m sure my enemies can’t find me anymore even if they wanted to.

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About 2.5 years.

They put me on large doses of seroquel and benzos for a year.

I got super fat and had no motivation to do anything.

My house was a wreck, it was awful.

I spent about another year getting off seroquel and losing weight.

Then that last 6 months was just getting out of the haze, you know?

I’ve been well since.

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Omg ages. I mean. First episode was 2016 then second 2018.

It was only this year really. Wen things changed significantly

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Before my last psychotic episode I was living on my own. Went grocery shopping, did laundry, maintained my living space clean. Used to recycle a lot of aluminum, glass, and plastic bottles. I was independent.

So far, it has been about 6 months since. I think I’m slowly getting back to a more normal lifestyle. My routine has slightly improved over the last two months. I found that I needed a couple of months to adjust to after my medication was changed. Exercise has helped me out and eating a smaller portion of food daily also has helped. Starting a proper sleep and meal routine has helped. I’m finally starting to go out to public places like grocery stores and such. Truth be told the past two weeks I haven’t been exercising or eating well. It is mostly because I got a big blister on my foot because of it and I eat when I get nervous. My scheduled court appearance tomorrow has made me nervous.

All in all though, I do think I feel sense of improvement and closer to finding some normalcy.

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I ask this question, because I’m out about 3 years since last psychosis and I’m wondering what my next step should be.

I’ve been stable for years now but I’m not really doing much(besides moderating). I’m not sure if I should try to go off meds like some people do or just adjust my lifestyle with meds. I could use a change though. I am just kind of standing still atm.

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So are you off of antipsychotics now?

Yes.

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With my pdocs permission and supervision of course.

I was last hospitalized twice in 2018, total time spent in hospital was about a month, prior to that my last hospitalization was in 2004/2005.

After they let me out, they eventually put me on Lurasidone. That worked pretty quickly, a month or two after titrating my dosage up to 60mg I started doing really well and I’ve been doing great ever since.

My doctor had me on a CTO at the time, I think it was for 1.5 years (They got renewed every 6 months) but he was satisfied with my progress and took me off it. I don’t think the CTO was necessary to begin with but I wasn’t going to take issue with it, it didn’t really affect my life in anyway.

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How many episodes have you had? I’ve had two and am feeling relatively normal on 5mg Olanzapine.

Just a word of warning. I lowered my olanzapine dosage under my doctors supervision due to all the terrible side effects, but still ended up psychotic and that was why I was hospitalized in 2018.

The good news is that even though I spent about a month in the hospital (which really sucked) I ended up finding Lurasidone and all my health problems are gone now, I’m stable and symptom free. (Except for a little bit of the flat effect)

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It’s a turkey shoot

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What do you mean by that Joker?

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Dont do it, This is how my 2nd relapse happended, horrible experience and lost all my friends, job and a flat and had to move in with my mother

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Yeah, I am extremely hesitant to try but some people do have success.

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I never fully recovered from my first psychosis but I’m stable for over a year now, but still hear voices every day.

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But maybe not for a long time, I was off meds for 6 months until I fell into worst psychosis also, experienced mania and depression has crippled me since this relapse

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Did you ever try getting off meds before? Did you even get hospitalized? Voluntarily or involuntarily?

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