So i havent taken an anxiety, ap, sleeping, or gabapentin…for almost 2 months…i feel better…i have a part time jobish 6 days a week…ive been driving…i have also been self medicating tiny amounts of thc…maybe 1 tab a week on my bad days…and sleepwalkwers…i dont know why its working…anyway i have a dr app on the 20th…im thinking about skipping…ive been distracting myself enough and with minimal drug intake ive been handling well…should i go to the drs and get back on zombie pills…? I cried the other day when i was out of sleepwalkers…not from addiction…i had been feeling so good lately i forgot i was sick…until it all returned…idk feeling lost…and slightly maniac…its not bad but i notice it…so it might bad…idk
I want to say something may embarrass you. The doctors let you no meds? Or it is your decision?
Nah i asked…no i couldnt remember to go…i couldnt get up or motivated…
No motivation may be one symptom of sz. Need other’s post about motivation.
Also on that lovely group of pills i was on…i would forget i took them…i took 20 sleeping pills one night… My d.i.d was worse i would flush my pills and not know…until i needed one…
I would love to quit medication but every time I do I go bat ■■■■ crazy.
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Just be careful man. Quitting cold turkey is never the answer
THC is essentially a med so you are not really completely off of meds. You are just not taking prescribed ones. If you are lucky enough to not relapse and to have had a one episode event followed by a recovery or just make it with thc more power to you but if you start relapsing please get back in touch with the pdoc. I once got into an unhealthy habit with sleep meds too and am glad that the one obvious sleep med I take now works pretty well. You don’t need to crash so be careful.
Not sure how many episodes you’ve had so far, but the stats aren’t looking good for staying psychosis-free without medication once one has had several episodes. If anything, I would see my pdoc more often to closely monitor how you’re doing off meds. Feeling good and forgetting one is sick, with this history, isn’t that straightforwardly a good sign.
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idk how you hold down a job no meds. props to you sir.
i could hardly hold down the apartment when i was off meds.
blinds closed
paranoid people are staring at me from out the streets
id go to the grocery store for 2 hours and end up not buying anything because the voices told me i wasnt worthy of food products id end up just running out the store
good luck and props to you sir, i definitely wouldnt be able to last a month and a half doing anything
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Well done. Can I ask what dose of AP you were on: Also, do you have any symptoms?
Still have symptoms…i feel like im riding a razor edge…im gonna go to the docs…its just nice to feel functional…its making me maniac for most of the day…i still hallucinate but its easier to distract myself if i feel like moving…idk ill go see the dr and tell her what ive been doing and see how she feels…
Ok so I sometimes wonder if they will one day treat AP’s the same way they now treat the lobotomy & ECT.
Archaic, wrong and caused more problems then it was ever fixed.
But until that day your better off staying on your AP’s, at least until something better comes along.
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