I’ve been on meds about 4 or 5 years @AmICrazyYet
The dosage I went back up to was half of my original dose, so I did reduce successfully. I tapered to 3/4 dose, then 1/2, then 1/4, had paranoia at 1/4 and went back up to half of original dose and have remained there.
I did this very slowly over the course of many months. Like 3 months between reductions.
Edit: I should note that I had been stable without symptoms for several years prior to this. Anyone reading, please consult pdoc before trying anything like this.
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I need to make it past the six month mark without blowing my insight. Got a support network to let me know if they spot a problem I become incapable of seeing myself.
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Yeah I tapered 50mg>40mg>30mg>20mg over the course of like 4 weeks. This is about my 4th or 5th attempt at tapering, normally I just go down 10mg the back up. So like 60% which is a massive reduction, longest I lasted was 2 weeks at 30mg. I hadn’t got any break though symptoms until this week when paranoia crept back in. So best streak on this low dosage of a dosage so far. 20mg/40mg is the initial starting dose in bipolar/schizophrenia so I figure I’m on the cusp of where it will still be effect. Going to pause here with my taper for a bit a double check I’ve stablised.
@shutterbug
Bro if I lasted 6 months off medication and then had to get back on I would count that as huge victory! Like personally if I could pull that off words could not express how over the moon I would be.
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You didn’t see the credit card bill I ran up. Took a while to pay it off.
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Yeah I blew a whole bunch of cash when I went through my last real episode, wild times those were. Did you manage to buy yourself anything fun? :))
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Whackload of copper and electronics. Was going to turn a room into my home into a Faraday cage.
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I’ve still got a box left to take, I made an appointment with my doctor on monday I’ll get a script and I’ll see if I can convince them, if I can get their support it’ll made my actions easier
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That’s interesting, one of my bestfriends had an obsession with power cables. I also think tearing down electronics is very common when deep in psychosis. I had this obsession with shiny things when I was at my worst. I was basically a raven I especially had a love of sliver and gems, not a cheap habitat either.
It’s a pretty common theme, like secret agents and conspiracy. Maybe when there is something at work that you can’t directly observe then it creates this gravitation in thought towards the unknown mechanics of those things. What do you think causes the fixation with electronics and metals during psychosis?
Destructive element aside building a massive Faraday cage in your living room would be pretty narly :))
I repair them when not psychotic. I find collectable receivers on FB Marketplace for cheap and sell them refurbed on eBay after I’ve recapped them and cleaned them up.
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I’ve been off APs for about a year now. Maybe longer, I forget exactly.
I was on them for several years, stable for 2 with no hospital stays.
I am NOT med free. I take and AD and a mood stabilizer.
I deal with some positive symptoms, but nothing that I can’t handle.
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That’s cool man, I feel like anlog has come back into fashion. Some of the older design pieces had a quality of thought to them and were build to last. The product life cycle of the stuff they make these days is pretty abysmal.
You’re made me optimistic that pulling of a livingroom size Faraday cage is a completely tangible possibility 
@anon4362788
That sounds like hope if I’ve ever heard it before. I’ve never really put a lot of thought into coming off my AD, I mean I tried it once but yeah I actually kind of enjoy it. I think I would definitely always still take something. I’m a little suspicious of what the research will end up saying but the long term effects of APs, as evidence builds and get get a clearer picture of the impacts. If I didn’t need the meds it would be a lot easy choice, but yeah ADs are yum as for depression/negatives
That was an embarrasing relapse on my part that did real damage to my marriage.
I will not come off Wellbutrin unless forced.
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I thought the exact same. I went many years after first episode without meds justvgine, until outside stress got the best of me and i went on meds for a few years, recently went off forc2 months thinking i was stress free, only to put myself in a worse position.
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Meds have made my life 10x worse, but I don’t think I can go off them. I’m waiting for the new meds and have hope for them.
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@shutterbug I was homeless, on the streets and talking to myself before I was put on medication and very slowly snapped back into reality. It’s not glamorous by any means but I don’t necessarily it should be embarrassing. It’s truely radical how deep you can go into your own mind. It is unique. Imagining things into life so real that they become the meaning of existence. Psychosis is utterly traumatic but at the same time in terms of richness of experience, vividly real and in the moment full of meaning. It is not a nice experience, it is different, outside the bounds of normal understanding. The shame comes only from those who stigmatise it. I only ment to express that there was a richness and ingenuity to be consumed an idea such as building a ridiculous Faraday cage
But I recoginse you. Nothing is more important then family and anything which jeopardises is a blight.
@anon4362788
Mood 
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The meaning being that I was full-on whackdoodle. Lo-fi Fox Mulder. My delusions range from ridiculous to stupid.
The shame comes from it being self-inflicted.
I know better.
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Poop goblin, that’s a good one. 