Is there anybody that can give me a short personal inspirational story of getting off meds and living with symptoms? 
May I ask for what reason?
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must be in the horror section bc thats what usually happens when you stop meds,
i think you should talk to your doc about this x
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Ignore me, i was thinking of refusing my injection tomorrow, but iāll take it. I canāt wait till the day I start reducing the dose itās taking for what seems like forever to get there. 
Yeah, reducing the dose helped me the most. Much more than getting off of it entirely. Now I just take 8mg of perphenazine and everything is mostly ok.
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Switch to pills, they are much safer.
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Most of what I have done when I was off the medās was too embarrassing and too painful to recount.
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There is no āthere.ā You are here with the rest of us. Medication is part of the journey. Getting off medication is not the destination.
You can live a fulfilling life if you just let go of societyās voice telling you that you are weaker on medication.
Just say, āyesā to drugsā¦ er ā¦ medication.
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I have been off med except lithium. AWFUL! I have been on too many meds or the very wrong meds. AWFUL!! Sometimes, I do take brief vacations from one or more meds. Right now, I am only on three meds. Thank you, Spirit! But, I am sort of rearranging their schedule of usage on my own. I am going to see what works and then report back to my prescriber. I donāt see him till July 10, anyway. I am not even going to tell my therapist at first; maybe later
doing ā no ā meds is not easy, or a picnicā¦
take care 
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I have no inspirational story about getting off medsā¦ I only have sad stories that end with me back in hospital.
I have been working on lowering the doseā¦ but I canāt go off them.
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Just take long vacation or picnic, but beware you cash draws out like my fam
one day some guy stopped taking his meds and went crazy,
the end
I took my antipsychotics for about three years and never skip a dose until two years ago I hear voices and becomes delusional again and the voices told me to stop taking the med. so, I had a relapse while I received heavy meds. After about a month, I manage to figure out the voices were fake and they cleared up at once. Having no more voices walking out of a relapse, I didnāt resume the med, as I tend to think med and voices are unrelated. I walked out of psychosis for two episodes when i was not on any medications. I feel obviously better for a year and then relapse again with a trigger. Everyone say I relapse because I skip the med. but I relapse when I took heavy med too. Iām not going to debate with them. In the end, they force me to have injections because they donāt trust me to take med. Iām lucky they are not giving me heavy dose this time. Itās minimal dosage. I feel much better with a low dose.
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I just got of the shot, hope you do too. I dont know how long it will last though.
Stuck on clozaril
Still got lots of issues
Just hope that they discover better meds that are more efficient with less side effects but itās a long time waiting