Meds vs. no meds

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My sister is bipolar. She told me years ago she decided not to take any meds. I think she still don’t take anything and she never was hospitalized, i think. She’s married and she has a kid. So…is it possible to live a normal life without meds, right?

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It depends on the intensity of your illness,

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I had two hospitalizations. Do you think i can have hope that my pdoc decide i can stop treatment? If i have a third episode, probably i will have to take AP for the rest of my life. But with only two episodes, can i hope the end of treatment?

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I was never hospitalized and I need to take them for the rest of my life. So I don’t think you should base it off hospitalizations

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I have known several people with bipolar disorder that dont take meds and function pretty normally. I used to work with them full time prior to becoming sick myself. I think it’s much harder to pull something like this off with a schiz diagnoses.

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Do you have sz?

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What meds do you take now? Neglecting your two episodes how are you overall? What was the time span between your two episodes?

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Yes, paranoid sz

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I dont have sz. I only had two delusion moments (psychotic episodes) with hospitalization, 2 years apart. During that 2 years i was not medicated at all. I take invega pill every day 3mg.

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So yes, its possible for you,

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If all you have to take is one little pill why wouldn’t you just take it and carry on with the rest of your life? Are you having side effects?

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You don’t have any other mental problems other than that two episodes?

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Yes acute dystonia in my eyes, is my big problem

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oh my, well the doctor should switch you then. But I could see why you would want to stop.

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A have a difficult personality, for exemple, i don’t like noises… but it doesn’t look like an illness. I look like a very normal person. I don’t hear voices, nothing. I tought my low moods could be ‘negative symptoms’ but those moments can be considered ‘normal’ moods.

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I tried 5 different AP, 4 of them gave me this side effect and the first one i took put me a looooot weight on

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Danger is close to you somewhat, have you tried risperidon yet?

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you must be really frustrated. Do you have any symptoms anymore?

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Positive symptoms not at all

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Yes i bacame fat with risperidone

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