Made up my mind about coming off meds

Ish · June 10, 2014, 6:18pm

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 · June 10, 2014, 6:21pm

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

anon77239798 · June 10, 2014, 6:24pm

I’m not on any meds.

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

SzAdmin · June 10, 2014, 6:27pm

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:

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