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.
Made up my mind about coming off meds
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
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.