I had a therapy group session on tuesday. We talked about different symptoms of schizophrenia. The other people told that medication take away their voices. Then I told that I take medication and I hear voices, that I have tried a lot of antipsychotics and I hear voices, but although medication doesn’t take away my voices, it makes them softer. Then the other people started to look at me like I was crazy. And I think they shoudn’t look at me this way because if we are in a theraphy group is because we are not healthy. And I think we should support each other and not critizise or look at the others like they were strange, when we all have the same mental illness.
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Schizophrenia is more of a group of disorders that have certain symptoms in common than a single disorder. Some of us are more severe and some of us less so. I’m like you in that my meds lower my voices, but don’t remove them. Higher doses WILL remove all of my voices, but at the cost of leaving me unable to function. I’ve had to learn ways to keep going on lower doses so that I can ignore the voices that are left and maintain my insight (CBT is a huge help with controlling how positive symptoms affect you, please consider it).
I generally avoid therapy groups, I’ve found very few of them to be healthy. Usually, the minute you start experiencing success, other group members become jealous and start sabotaging you. Very frustrating.
I’m taking a high dose of antipsychotic, but voices don’t dissapear. If I don’t feel confortable in therapy group, I can leave it. But I don’t know what to do.
I’m in a group therapy too and there are a couple of other schizophrenics there like me. They are more stable than me at the moment bit everyone in my group is very supportive and understanding. Sometime medication doesn’t get rid of all the symptoms but that shouldn’t mean you’re the odd one out. What medication do you take btw?
I’m in a group therapy specifically for people who hear voices, and it’s very liberating.
I don’t ever feel like they think I’m crazy or insane, because they hear voices too, even with medication.
Invega makes my voices lower and more tolerable, but they’re always there in the back of my head.
Only when I’m circling the drain mentally, do they start becoming noticeably louder.
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Except when I’m in hospital,I always hear voices,with very high dose (unfunctional one) i don’t.But who want’s not to have life.
It’s terrible that you were made to feel that way in your group. When i was in the hospital a couple months ago i had group therapy every day. I could tell no one else there had the same kind of problems as i did so i just kept a lot of stuff to myself and listened to the others. Probably not the healthiest thing for my recovery but it is what it is. Sorry you had this experience.
With high doses of 3 antipsychotics I rarely hear voices but still I am possessed by them. Fortunately i have no side effects.
I remember Haldol.What are the other two?
Might be they’re hitting the same receptor.
Abilify and zyprexa
There are number of receptors the meds bind to Abilify and Haldol are practically doing the same job.
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Medications make my voices quite soft. They also mumble so they are unintelligible. They don’ bother me in the least.
I take Geodon, Seroquel and Risperdal Consta.
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