Anyone here was able to lower antipsychotic dosage with L-theanine without having positive symptoms? Did it improve negative symptoms?
It doesn’t allow you to lower your AP dosage. I actually increased mine while taking it !
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It didn’t improve negatives either?
It helps somewhat with positives. It might actually make negatives worse as it’s sedating.
Edit: one thing it did seem to help me with was my functioning. I’d be extremely low functioning if it wasn’t for L-theanine.
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I’m sure that without L-theanine, I would have to raise my risperdal dosage to like 6mg. I’m on 4mg now, and that more or less prevents me from deep psychosis. I dialed back my L-theanine dosage from 2,000mg to 1,000/1,500. Its helpful for the anxiety from psychosis, at least in my experience.
Didn’t do anything for me.
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I just read it increases dopamine which increases psychosis 
I am on 3mg Risperdal but I have paranoia when I go outside my home so I don’t go out at all now.
I don’t want to increase and have more negative symptoms.
That’s odd that it increases dopamine. L-theanine always calmed my positive symptoms down.
“L- theanine can increase certain neurotransmitters in your brain, including dopamine . Multiple studies have shown that L- theanine increases dopamine production, thus causing an antidepressant effect and enhancing cognitive function”
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I don’t know then. I just know that things got better when I started to take it.
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