You can’t know for sure if they haven’t said that to you. It does however sound like you need a different psych team. Are you in a country where you can switch drs?
You have the opposite of munchausen and your doctor knows it. You keep trying to STOP your treatment and he keeps refusing. If he thought you were faking, he wouldn’t be so hesitant to reduce your meds.
I think some doctors just assume if you’ve been relatively stable for a while, you should keep being stable on your own with no resources other than medication.
I’m so sorry @Joker. That’s awful. Maybe you can try telling them you feel like they don’t believe you and that it hurts your feelings because you’re genuinely struggling
What confuses me is that why I go from just having psychosis, to then having Autism, moving onto Generalised Anxiety Disorder and now I am being treated for depression.
Ever since my old pdoc retired, they have loaded me up on all these meds, and I am not happy about it.
Seemingly I feel trapped by this, and my perfectly natural reactions to being sidelined and ignored has led to this situation where I am taking all these pills, and carry these diagnoses and it’s just a mess.
I will. It’s just I found a video on YouTube talking about this syndrome, and I feel like how I am treated by these people must mean this is what I have
Hey man, you’ve really improved your health and you’ve gotten a successful business off the ground. You’ve done this at a time when many who are healthier than you can’t get their own poop in a group and stay employed. You need to give yourself some proper credit for how amazingly well you’re doing. You’re so close to your situation that you see all the things that are wrong, but I’m seeing a hell of a lot you’re doing right from where I’m sitting.
I would happily take your place. I am in bed 80-90% of my time. I wish I could work like you. I don’t mind having 10 diagnosis and taking tons of meds if I am able to work, many people with or without sz have many diagnosis and some are able to work. You’re stable and have no sz symptoms, stay on your meds. Don’t let everything fall.