Are they still trying to help or have they told u there nothing else they can do
I’m only seeing a GP for getting repeat scripts these days. Supposedly was to be a med review in two to three years But was hospitalized last year and had a med reduction during that period. So no idea where that leaves me with my pdoc and the med review. Still seeing a therapist though. Positive symptoms and any mania seem under control but negative and depression far from it. Which I even agree it’s down to therapy and not the pdoc atm. Feel very on my own but I’m sure the pdocs speak a different language than everyone else anyway.
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I see a psychiatrist and a therapist. By definition they are trying to help me.
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I still see my doc and my therapist. I’m getting so tired of this wax build-up trying to flatten me.
As long as I keep trying… I feel that people are willing to help me.
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It is ongoing. I have to go to my GP to get blood tests done in March when my Medicade starts.
Its ongoing. I get my periods of wellness when i see the pdoc every three months and periods of relapse when I see him every month or worse, go to hospital, like this week. I can’t wait to see him because I came out the hospital too soon and am still in a bad way with negative symptoms.
My psychologist says that my brain is going to grow under the influence of medication. Neuroplasticity at work. He is just hoping it will work.
I’m a mouse, remember?
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I see a case manager and a therapist once a week. I see the psychiatrist between once a week, or up to once a month, but usually it is every two weeks. The head psychiatrist I see only several times a year. It’s best to avoid her, seeing her is usually bad news.
Treatment is ongoing because they keep renewing the court order, year after year. Too bad they can’t get me to take medication. Suckers. 
I like the therapy and case management though.
I live in an assisted living center for the mentally ill. I see a pdoc once a month. We have group with our case manager once a day. We have periodic evaluations.
Pretty much where I’m at also. Trying not to get flattened
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I am still being helped. Every day it gets a bit better. Don’t lose hope! I was once told I’d never live outside of an institution. So much for that theory!
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I feel like my therapist doesn’t know what else she can do to help me. I hated the psychiatrist, and though I’m supposed to go back to her and do the whole seroquel thing, I really just…don’t want to.
This is how the deal went with my school psychologist and past therapist too. I’ll probably stop going to see this one, then get a bad episode, be going nuts and want to die and then I’ll go find another therapist who won’t know what to do with me. Ah well.
Hey Anna, I just want to wish you well and hope you don’t end up in a bad episode. Keep strong!
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That’s me on one level. On the other hand I’m a little paranoid about people. But good things happen to me.
I think my treatment in terms of symptoms is maintaining me at a certain level rather than hoping for any major breakthroughs. Over a decade ago, when seeking more help, I was told that part of dealing with the illness was accepting the level you’re at.
Primarily I need ongoing social care, including the issue of social isolation, but that is very hard to get in a system increasingly geared to a time limited approach more suited to acute than chronic patients.
I pretty much graduated some time back with a C average. My shrinks still work with me about meds.
I’m lucky to have a few people who know me well in my life.
I really dont know anymore - I am getting closer to hitting the wall or a dead end, when it comes to psychiatric medications.
I have been under the ‘care’ of many different psychiatrists over the years.
The problem is that I am very med sensitive - I will frequently either get physical side effects from a particular psych medication or the medication will easily make me worse, either affecting my anxiety, worsening my mania or rarely makng me more depressed. Certain meds have rendered me more psychotic like Imipramine and possibly Abilify.
I am no longer young (in my 20s) so taking meds is trickier when you hit middle age - I am not dying (I dont think) but I do suffer from diabetes (triggered by psych meds) I am overweight and I have a heart murmur and have a family history of cardiac problems - my mother suffers from an irregular heartbeat.
So as my family doctor said - these psych meds are not doing you any favors as far as my physical health is concerned.
I know that this site is a pro med site but I am not bull shitting anyone when I tell you all that antipsychotics and many other psych meds are toxic - they are not good for the body, causing a lot of metabolic, cardiac and neurological issues.
But the thing is I can not function without an antipsychotic - I have tried may different antipsychotics but now I have to eliminate antipsychotics that cause a lot of physical health issues - this leaves me with basically Abilify (way to stimulating for me - cannot take it) Latuda and Saphris.
I do not have a good track record with antidepressant type medications - Latuda is basically an antidperssant/antipsychotic - According to my pdoc Saphris is less activating than Latuda or Abilify so maybe I will ask her about taking it - she did recommend it to me the other day.
What happens if a medication like Saphris or Latuda doesnt work out? I really do not have a lot of options - these meds affect my hormones, ■■■■ with my blood glucose levels, affect my liver or cause different issues with anxiety or mood -
I am basically coming closer to a wall - or dead end -
I may end up with no other options other than going medication free - this kind of scares the ■■■■ out of me