When are the good ones coming out?
Roll call
ITI 007 check
Min 101 check
Lu …- check
Evenamide check
What am I missing?
Anyone know if anything new on the horizon for psychotic symptoms?
Are you torturing yourself? It seems this preoccupation and desire for new meds is causing you a lot of grief. We all want better meds, we all want a cure, but all we really have is now.
I’m sorry if this offends or hurts you, but it seems like you are hurting yourself with a future that will present itself as it does and there is little you or i can do about it.
Learning how to cope with what is is the best way forward. Yes, we can live in hope that there are these meds on the horizon, but they are still years away, and you have those years to fill now.
I’m sorry if this offends you again, but it seems you are hurting yourself and I don’t like to see people in pain.
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No you are right. I am wasting my life waiting for new meds. Very truthful what you said. Not hurtful at all. I just come here to vent my frustrations because I feel stuck in life. The psychosis was so bad that I can’t get over it. The meds help. But I miss the quality of life I had before them. My health being my primary concern.
I got clean and sober from drugs and alcohol but now I’m reliant on atypicals. I have no motivation and I feel like ■■■■ all the time. I’m obsessed with new meds.
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I cannot believe that I am mentally ill. I’m having a difficult time accepting this fact. I’m able bodied and my heart is in the right place but my mind is conflicted. It’s very difficult to live this way. It requires strength that I do not know if I have.
It’s been 16 years and not much has changed accept I’m older.
16 years without getting self acceptance is a long time. It’s been 25 years for me, but I have still travelled and worked abroad. I have had several girlfriends. Life has been hectic and difficult. If you have survived 16 years of it, you already have proved that you have the strength for it.
If you want to make changes then it’s up to you and you alone, however, small goals and small ambitions are more realistic. You know, you’ve lived it. Time perhaps, to think of something new.
How would these new meds change you? What is it that you want to do that you can’t now?
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Ahh good question. Well for starters the weight gain and physical discomfort from the meds makes working out very difficult. And the lack of sex drive and motivation make dating very low on my priority list. I don’t know, there’s a whole bunch of stuff that I would like to do that I don’t have interest in snymore.
I also suffer from body dysmorphia and the meds make me feel flat and awkward. That is the worst part about them. The drugged, insulated feeling that u get from latuda (I’m only on 40 mg too)
I keep reading that the current meds don’t treat the cause of the illness they suppress dopamine activity which is very broad. I’m excited for a med that actually works on the illness because it won’t have the side effects that these dopamine blockers have.
I have traveled, had gfs etcetera but it’s not the same as it was before I got sick.
Now with the maturity and strength that I have a slight tweak in side effects could make a huge difference in my quality of life.
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I can only suggest that reawakening that whole bunch of stuff that you would like to do, and force yourself to get on with it because those meds haven’t arrived yet and won’t for years to come.
A healthy interest in something else might fuel other parts of your life too.
There was that Japanese theory of doing a little of something everyday and slowly building up. Just a few minutes and then stop if you want to, but do it everyday.
Life will never be the same once you have experienced psychosis, but we just have to grow through it as part of us.
It really sucks life. I have my meditation and that is getting me through it personally.
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I’ve seen a couple people that who have had psychosis and went back to full functioning. Two to be exact. Unfortunately your right though life won’t ever be the same. It’s a bad hand that we got dealt and j guess now we’ve gotta make the best of it.
I’m not going to stop bitching about it until they come out with something better though.
I don’t even have sz I’ve got bipolar with psychosis and my life is ■■■■■■. Without antipsychotics things are much better for a while but unfortunately that only lasts for so long before I have another episode.
The level of disability from this illness is unvelievable