My name is Jonathan Rivera, and I currently got a question.I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and I had some bad episodes. To the point where my family wants me on medication. I work out and the medication causes me to gain weight and bad side effects. Working out is my life and I cant deal with this on my mind all the time. My family said if I didn’t take medication which I live on my own , that if I didn’t take the medication I wouldn’t be able to see them. So I lied to them because I knew I would defiantly not take the medication, and if I told them the truth I wouldn’t be able to see them. So I told God that I was just going to tell that that I was on it, because I love them and I was getting bad anxiety from it and condemnation that I couldn’t see them making matters worst. It felt if I just lied that my schizophrenia anxiety would leave and it did. It was weird but I want to know would God forgive me and still be with me even though I tell them this for a while? I told God before hand and asked for forgiveness, its just that I just don’t want to be alone, and I cant stand the medication. So far so well, I have been doing good on niacin and high vitamin c alone. My condition causes me to believe that God is going to leave me, condemn me or even judge me for this lie. I know it isn’t good, but if I didn’t do it… it will cause a lot of anxiety and worry for no reason. I tried to reason with them, trust me I did but it doesn’t work anymore.
Thank you! That helped a lot
Honesty is important. Be honest to your family member. What you have done may only beneficial for you temporarily, thereafter you have to face the consequences. God never lies, you should imitate Him. After all, you will have peace of mind for not being guilty.
Why don’t you talk to your psychiatrist about the intolerance of side effects of the medication?
@mortimermouse is on medication and is an avid bodybuilder. I am sure he could help you out.
God is about Love and forgiveness.
At certain times when I was alone and had NO stress in my life I was able to merely survive without medication.
So maybe if you live on a farm in the middle of no where I can see where that may work.
But when you have to interact with other people that get uncomfortable with illness at work or with family,
I tell myself I take it for THEM.
I know I’ve done better when I finally found a decent psychiatrist. Growing up it was always other people that wanted to medicate ME and I was against that. But when I lost a job and was hospitalized against my will and got another lousy pdoc that wanted to control me I fired his ass.
Then for the first time I found My own doctor and she wanted to work WITH me to make things better and now they are.
Maybe RTMS would help with this?? I’m currently researching effectiveness of repetitious trans cranial magnetic stimulation. I too gained SO MUCH WEIGHT…on medicine. Yet I’m on lurasidone and that helps without wonking me out too much. Anyways, there’s always a way to get help I say be truthful and develop a team with your family to excel in new treatments.
You have my sympathy. I used to work out, but the medications stopped that. I asked on this site if anyone was able to take med’s and work out. This guy said he took some kind of energy supplement that enabled him to work out. He said it cost about fifty dollars for about sixty doses in the nutritional supplement store. Keep in mind that people can react differently to the medications. I was able to stay stable a pretty good while working out and doing transcendental meditation. (It doesn’t live up to the claims of its promoters, but it is good relaxation therapy.) I also cut way down on my caffeine intake.
Hmm…this is a medication problem. Don’t get it twisted. You need medication, your beliefs about God are delusional, I am sorry to inform you. That means that they are symptoms of schizophrenia. You can find a medication that does not cause weight gain- I know two. Latuda and Geodon. Ask your doc about them. They do not cause weight gain. I struggle to put on weight, but I am pretty big and lift heavy weights, I am 5ft 7inches and 180lbs, I want to be a solid 190-200. I had two lunches today and I drink dark beer with dinner to 1. chill me out 2. put on weight and I eat like 2500 cal a day, on a good day 3000cal.
I get sedated from my meds most of the time, but today not so much, the past week has been full of college ■■■■ and I am wound up and experiencing some symptoms. That is what I get for being an honors student. I still function, I have functioned academically no matter what, my physique, health and social life have not always been well. On normal days I drink lots of caffeine and stay perfectly stable, this past week I have been Dr. Psychotic, being a nutjob outside of class and then dropping bombs on tests, papers and class discussions. Like in between classes today I was acting like a looney and my mom was seriously concerned, I also saw my therapist and he said it’s too much stuff going on in my life, classes which suck, ect. that are making me looney and hyper and having nightmares and ■■■■.
You can be on medication and still work out and be awesome at that part of life. This is me, I take six pills, and this is the most recent pic of me
So there you have it
so is mine, and I take Geodon twice a day, Xanax three times a day and Propanolol extended release once a day.
Latuda also doesnt cause weight gain but it didnt work for me. I tried it and it made me super schizo and I had super symptoms and akathisia, which is medication induced restless leg syndrome like hell.
My current diagnoses are chronic paranoid schizophrenia, generalized anxiety disorder and tremors (medication induced).
This is me on a bad day. I have been symptomatic. On good days it is like I dont have schizophrenia.
Good luck and message me if you have more questions, I am all about recovery and you sound like you could use some advice that doctors cant or in most cases wont give. They dont always tell you that there are meds that dont cause weight gain. Its messed up. I am taking a medical ethics class and informed consent and treatment models are big topics in that class. My doctors use transparency as their approach, they inform me of my treatments without leaving anything out and then I can ask for alternatives, which I argued for in an essay I wrote yesterday. Transparency works the best with intelligent patients, you seem like you arent an idiot, so they should be using it with you.
Medical ethics and my opinions aside, it is a fact that Geodon and Latuda rarely cause weight gain, and when they do, it is not dramatic.
I believe you will be forgiven. I would do the same thing. I am not schizophrenic as far as I know, but it is highly possible I do. Well, Just keep praying 
ur walking a fine line here. what if u become unstable again? talk to ur pdoc about different meds. the injectible ones don’t make u lethargic at all really so give those a try. u don’t want to lose ur parents hunni. just talk to ur pdoc. xxx
Geez man, you look like the vegas mma fighter I met. His name is dennis the pirhanna davis, looking great, we had to run 30 mile a week in the service bro…so I took pm protein, energy supps, and used back then a lot of power gel to train but I dunno if they make it anymore. Watch the joints, technique not weight. Fricking huge.
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When I get bad, I just clear out. I’ll get up sometimes and just without a word walk away. I can’t run from voices but I can run from the real…bad habit. I have something the military calls beer babyism…I can’t handle things sober all the time. It’s really embarrassing to talk about. I couldn’t imagine how prone I’d be to do bad substances if I had such intense visual hallucinations. Please keep going don’t give up. Put on the whole armour of everything you believe in. I think you’ll ace this.