How long did you wait before you take medicine?

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How long did you wait before you seek medical help? Did you find yourself feel worse than before? What make you keep trying?

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I waited four years before taking anything for my depression. I waited eight years before taking anything for my psychosis. Neither treatments helped me because the medications were the old style medications that didn’t work on me. These were the years before SSRI’s and before atypical antipsychotics.

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I didn’t get medical intervention until 8 months after psychotic symptoms.
I feel better now.
It took me so long because the voices first made me out to be some special gifted person with supernatural powers so I had to keep this a secret so government doesn’t make experiments with me etc.
Then in the last few weeks months when the voices turned evil, I was under the delusion that I would be tortured if I told someone so I didn’t…
But the moral of my story is, get medical intervention pretty soon, its better for getting rid of voices and having a lower dose.

Idk what you mean by keep trying.

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I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and prescribed an anti depressant at the beginning of 19 years old. They prescribed me Wellbutrin but I refused to take it.

At 19 1/2 I took lsd and had a bad trip it triggered psychotic behavior.

Move forward to 19 and 11 months I decided to take the Wellbutrin and it almost sent me to the hospital because the Wellbutrin made the psychosis worse.

At around my 20th birthday I took risperdal which made me EVEN WORSE.

Then a month later I was put in the hospital and finally they stabilized me with like 3 antipsychotics

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I meant keep trying different medicine.

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Oh I personally am afraid to try different antipsychotics. Fortunately abilify did remove the hallucinations and stuff so that is fine

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I waited about 2 months of voices and seeing things before I got help at 16 years old. My onset was gradual. When I went full blown psychotic, abilify did nothing at all to touch the symptoms. Then the cognitive symptoms were really bad. They tended to wax and wane but never reaching remission. I kept trying because of this site. The people on here taught me it’s not the end of the world having a hospital stay. Now 11 years later I had a hospital stay and I’m thankful my pdocs both in the hospital and facility , stabilized me.

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