Made up my mind about coming off meds

[Ish]

I’m coming off the meds. I have not spoken to her yet but my GP will wean me off. They said they’d wean me off in six months and its been a little over that. I have to do this with or without anyone’s support. I feel I have to take this risk. No one knows whats going to happen for sure.

[anon49185775]

I wouldnt do that. Meds are a necessity for us.

[anon77239798]

I’m not on any meds.

for me, at this time, I have no symptoms.

[SzAdmin]

I don’t recommend what you are doing - but if you do it you should have a plan in case you have a bad episode and become fully psychotic. What you can do is have an advanced directive pre-created and signed and held by people who care for you so that they can help if something bad happens:

Psychiatric advance directive

Here are some good links:

http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Legal/Advance_Directives.htm

http://www.bazelon.org/Where-We-Stand/Self-Determination/Advance-Directives.aspx

Here is an example of the forms:

http://www.papsych.org/publicArticles/sampleForms.aspx

http://new.dhh.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/BehavioralHealth/publications/AdvanceDirective.pdf

[77nick77]

Well it’s gamble. Good luck.

[BarbieBF]

Good luck. Try not to rush things and I wish you the best.

[Apokalypz]

Make sure you keep some meds on hand just in case so the second you feel things going belly up, you’ll have something to help.

[bubbles]

wow!!!..that is a huge step…wishing you the best…

[bridgecomet]

This is great. Another way to empower my son.