If I am schizophrenic there are 2 options, which one you choose?

I still don’t know what to do if I have schizophrenia… If I give it a try and I dont hear vocies after tapering off… Then there’s no chance of withdrawal too and i can make sure problem is solved.

But what if I hear again? Then I am schizophrenic. So I will have 2 options, take meds and bear the side effects for whole life meaning accepting that I need to stay in limits for my who life because they make me randomly so tried and sleepy that I hardly can perform well as I have potential also i get so tired during a day hardly can brush and its 16 years i have lost health of my teeth because of sleepiness of this med, although i am very attentive towards hygiene. I cannot drive too and many other things that need awareness as I havent till now…

Or, give it a try to see if I can deal with voices, which i never did before… maybe with voices i can live more happily who knows because voices i heard was not making me do something dangerous or so?! I never tried this because my family decided I should take med

There’s like a high percentage…like 20% or so who recover from 1st episode psychosis if that is what you’ve had. Indeed it may be higher but that is a conservative estimation.

Ultimately it’s about symptoms and function. If your losing your stuff daily and hearing voices non stop that tends to bite into your function. Same if your delusional. If your multi episodic then it’s usually meds as the best way to go with our current medical technology.

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16 years of what? Your not saying that you have been on AP’s for 16 years are you? I took you for being recently diagnosed.

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Nevermind, I think you were saying that you lost 16 years of health.

Edit: I’m not sure though…please clarify what you were saying there.

Not really up to you to determine.

That’s a doctor decision as I have been told many times

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I said i lost health of my precious teeth!

Why can they decide for you if you dont hurt anybody?

How long have you been on antipsychotic medication @Ladouleur ?

16 yrs i have been on them first, first gen then second

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Well my psychiatrist said she has 2 types of patients. The compliant safer category and the risk taking category. She said I’m in the risk taking category because I choose not to take aps everyday. I have lots of good coping skills and insight though.

I have bipolar 1 with psychosis dx. It’s pretty similar to the schizoaffective bipolar type but I am pretty high functioning. So I’m probably not even a good example but more of an edge case example.

I still hear voices and get hallucinations but it’s pretty rare these days.

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Ok. thanks…that’s the part I wasn’t sure of…I thought you were recently diagnosed…this kind of changes the dynamic a bit.

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If you’ve been on aps for 16 years you should just stay on them.

I have been on halol for 4 yrs then stopped i heard vocies for the first time so i thought i am crazy started antipsychs but abilify this time for 11 yrs or so…

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Continue taking them. Wouldn’t want to end up commiting a crime, would you now?

i never did any crimes either i heard or not heard

Unfortunately bec of my parents’ decision when I was young and weak I accepted that i am crazy and i need to take them!

i take them but may taper off under supervison of dr

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Yeah talking to your psychiatrist is what will help you. We are just some people on a forum. The doctor knows the right decision for you

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That’s not really the point is it?

Hurting people is not symptom or a result of having schizophrenia

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But believe me you should make yourself knowledgable too because it’s not very easy to find a trustable dr who also thinks like you

I am reading this one now

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