lol, I feel that
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I have experienced extreme hunger and sleepiness and no longer due because of trying different medicines.
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I feel the same and have felt the same way ever since i was given meds, i have been hoping to get off them some day and that i would be ok,
Luckily i switched med in 2011 and it really helped me, the med i was taking before was not very good and it basically just stopped parts of my brain from functioning, I know not everyone is the same though so you got to be very careful if you are considering it,
It had been a long time that i was stable and i tried to come off meds with my GP’s help but it didn’t work out, i still hate having to be on meds though,
I keep thinking my brain is stronger now and maybe my mind has healed, maybe it is possible, i dont want to think its not, i do very well on a low dose and maybe i’ll cut it down again with my Dr’s help in the future.
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CBT can help change how you react to the voices so that the paranoia goes away and they just become background noise you can ignore.
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I think the biggest issue is not the meds but the sz itself. I was off meds for 2yrs and the 1st year I was fine no serious positive symptoms, I still had negative symptoms. Went to school then quit after 2 weeks to stay in my room all day.
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I’d rather not either but I would rather be a little tired than have the mean voices and paranoia while sitting in a hospital.
But you know what is best for you.
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Funnily is that I still ate a lot when I was off meds. Its weird given that before sz I was only 135lb.
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For me its the meds when I got off I was working 12 hr shifts and was really happy but I became psychotic after a couple of months even now my shot has worn off and I feel alive again but I’m having to get my shot again on Monday and I’m having positive symptoms come through
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its odd, negative symptoms make me want to quit meds sometimes but the times i have quit meds i still dont do much but i get the addition of anger, depression, bad sleep, and worsened fear of going outside and going places, along with the fear of inevitably relapsing
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I can work around med side-effects. I can even work around negative symptoms. I can’t work around what happens when I’m off meds and I lose insight because I’ve lost even the most basic level of function at that point. I’m useless to myself and anyone else.
Pass the pills.
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I have a feeling that the more I am on heavy meds and the longer the harder it is to come off meds. Now if I quit risperidone I get symptoms fast but when I was on 10-15mg Abilify for 2yrs after getting diagnosed it was much easier to come off meds.
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I go through horrible withdrawals even just tapering an injection risperidone was hard to get off of but the worst for me was abilify
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I have been without drugs for about 18 years now.
The drugs just turned me into a zombie, so I had no choice.
LOL.
Thank goodness, they are dying.
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How do you handle positive symptoms?
I am the Master. This is MY life.
I see all these positive symptoms as utter garbage attempting to overrule me.
I see them as inferior attempts.
I am better than them, and they despise this about me.
I know I know, this is supposed to be nothing but a mental illness.
But I see this differently.
Why would such things happen, unless I am a threat.
Well to heck with that being the case is how I approach this over all.
Works for me !
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Do you still hear voices?
Yes, but it is nothing like it was before.
Now they are begging me for help.
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If you think about doing anything for the rest of your life it seems tedious ie eating food 3 times a day, personal hygiene, social stuff etc. So I dont think about it as for the rest of my life, just try to live one day at a time as they say.
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Unfortunately, you may have no choice. I’ll take weight gain and sedation over florid psychosis any day. It’s 40 years later but I remember my life with being psychotic; I didn’t have a life. The meds allow me to work, drive, take classes and everything else. When I was intensely psychotic I used to plead with the doctors to help me. I heard the same thing often: “We don’t have a magic wand to wave over you and make you better.” Well, after being on medication for 40 years I realize medication is the magic wand.
I mean I sympathize with you of course. If I could find a better way to deal with psychosis than medication, I would do it in an instant. But at this point in time, medication is what we got.
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How do you know you’ll live the rest of your life on meds? Anything could change
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