This makes me want to quit my meds. Now I’m off to the promised land.
I’ve tried but it didn’t work.
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Well, you know I have respect for you but I have to say, if it wouldn’t have been the mother-in-law issue that tipped you over, as time went on, it would have probably been some other issue that did it.
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Well now I feel bad for supporting it. I haven’t experienced delusion in 6 years though. I’m not one of these people who was like, delusional last week. That’s a far cry. Most people should be on APs. I have a brother right now who is just frozen and can’t recover because he stopped his AP. He was diagnosed much later so he needs a sizeable dose until he can stabilize most likely.
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Technically I was taken off my AP. I am not off meds though. I actually take even more meds, now. I kind of wish I was just on geodon still.
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I will debate that point. There is not a single other thing that has pissed me off to the extent my in-laws have in nearly a quarter century of marriage. It is very rare for me to look forward to someone’s funeral, but, boy am I ever in this case.
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I think the people who come off medication successfully move on from the forum.
This is because they have recovered and don’t carry the illness anymore. So, they move on with their lives I suppose.
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I will be on meds for life I do really bad off meds
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I’ve been on here 14 years. You would think at least one of these “recovered” people would come back and tell us they recovered. I haven’t seen even one. And you could argue that no one is going to take two or three off the forum and come back all that time later to tell us, but the “recovered” people, if they were on here for a length of time have read the numerous threads on going off successfully and you would think that would motivate at least one of them to come back and tell us. But I haven’t seen even one of these people. And some members take two years off and come back.
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Honestly, I am the one who someday will try to stop meds.
But to be super duper honest,last time when I tried, it was ~3 year ago, I felt worse. A lot worse.
Also, the fact that marijuana makes me hallucinate, probably means that I need meds.
I am never sure.
I am just glad I am successful at managing all life situations, but at the moment only with meds.
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Bro, I’m nuts on meds. Imagine being off.
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Is there not one person on this forum or the history of the forum that’s been able to survive without antipsychotics
I was just going to say no, then remembered
He’s a possibility.
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in denial of your diagnosed illness doesn’t work,meds are needed in 99% cases
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Maybe it would count for those who were misdiagnosed as schizophrenic but it turned out to be a drug induced psychosis, and went on with their lives.
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My doctor wants to take me of meds after three years total
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“survive” yes. i didnt drop dead. it didnt feel good tho
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İ have a plan to quit all meds but not now i shall post about my situation once i quit
When I realized the medication was just another layer of my fear complex… and that the people around me were also only reinforcing the fears about be missing meds etc. I decided to reduce my medications just to see.
It wasn’t a cold turkey quit. It was a slow process. I reduced the meds I did take and would test out skipping a day here and there. Eventually two days off 1 day on. Then eventually a week… etc.
for about two years I still had a bottle of zyprexa dissolving tablets. I kept them in reserve for crisis scenarios. And yes I wound up using every last one of those throughout that journey.
Another reason I felt like quitting was because my positive symptoms were so bad. Not the delusions or mood disorder elements… just the hallucinations were ever-present. Medications seemed more purpose built for stabilizing the mood and reducing the extremity of crisis scenarios.
But also they seemed to be the band aid approach and a semi-placebo. If i took my meds everyone else could carry on like we were on the best path already… by everyone I mean my caregivers.
Anyways I wasn’t content with that. I was still suffering. I started turning over every stone I could to find anything that might grant me a step forward.
It was a long journey. And I’m not fully recovered. I still have to be vigilant and mindful.
That said my symptoms have have mostly subsided. I think the most threatening ones are delusions… paranoia sets in first. Prolonged paranoias become delusions.
Gotta map the mind and know when your mind is starting to come up short. Delusions are a hard thing to challenge when they set in… but mindfulness beyond the moment. Recognizing the patterns… learning that they will pass. Trying to find the feeling of a recent memory where the convolution of SZ wasn’t as present.
If you search through my previous posts here there is a lot more info on how I coped.
I stopped daily medication and opted for literally anything and everything else. Health in general became my religion.
I wouldn’t advise anyone to try it without a very robust and detailed set of contingencies. This forum was one of them.
Let this community stand with you in your struggles.
The things in your mind are not reality.
And as a reminder I did still have to turn to zyprexa as my last resort… basically was a major tranquilizer. I’d take it and sleep for about 17 hours… wake up voraciously hungry. And then spend a day trying to ground myself in simpler views on things.
The trend of psychosis is to fade in severity over time. Its a battle of years. I was first diagnosed 12 years ago.
I still hear voices but I can barely make out what they’re saying… I can feel when the anxiety is about to be too much and the more dysfunctional thought insertion type phenomena start to occur. I fight through whatever it is I’m supposed to do that day… then I rest, eat well, practice affirmations, try to rewrite my expectations and envision a future of better times… and If i’m lucky I get a solid 8 or 9 hours sleep.
Anyways and sincerely… good luck to all of you
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I am surviving so far bene off my psych meds for a month now and still haven’t completely lost my mind yet or gone crazy or delusional will update how it goes and whether or not I decide to go back to taking them tired of how they made me feel and tired of the side effect of weight gain and my weight kept going up too there was no stopping the fluctuations constantly right now haven’t lost any more weight since stopping the meds but haven’t gained anymore either and if I do it’s probably because of water retention which is temporarily weight gain that will go away plus I read that sinus infections and colds can also cause a person to swell and gain weight I can feel it in my belly when I swell that’s where it is at usually or my fingers swell up I been taking ibuprofen for inflammation since being sick and to bring down possible swelling in my neck and my sinuses
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It’s me, I think. I was left medicine on January 2022 so two and half years ago. But in my case I have positive symptoms ofcourse, but controllable. My behaviour is normal and i don’t require to see a psychiatrist doctor or to take antipsychotics. Now my positive symptoms are in my thinking process and don’t disturb me. (All inside of my mind.)
Before this I was taking medicine for 25 years. With two or three attempts of off meds in past.
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