Every few months I stop my meds as I think I am cured and don’t need meds anymore but it never works. I don’t get anger issues anymore even when off meds but after 10 days I start getting anxiety, racing heart and sweating as first symptoms of psychosis. I used to get anger issues and nightmares even when lowering dose by only 1mg after a day. A few days ago I lowered dose to 1mg from 6mg same anxiety happened. I slowly tapered down over 4-5 weeks. Now I am on 3mg. I wonder why my anger issues are gone? I even used to get them on 6mg, with time they disappeared. I think long term psychosis does smth to brain and cause anger issues. I was off meds and psychotic for 2years in 2016
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My dr want me to stay on 3mg. Should I try 2mg? 1mg didn’t work, I started getting psychotic. I was fine on 1.5mg I think, but i was on it for only a few days then went down to 1mg
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Nice that your anger issues are gone, and you stabilized a bit.
Maybe stay on the 3mg for now. Build a more stable life. Good daily structure, decent diet, coping strategies, etc. Then discuss it again with your doc?
I always tried in the wrong order as well, so no judgement. But a good baseline before lowering them is important.
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I was stable on 10m abilify for yrs before i stopped meds and went psychotic. 1.5mg risp is equivalent to 10mg Abilify
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Ah okay. The equivalent of 20mg abilify is quite a bit. I don’t know how much meds you need…can’t judge over the internet.
I just hope you’ll take time to stabilize. And find a good balance between fighting positives and negatives.
Hold on @aziz, I know it’s tough. But there is improvement possible with slow and steady trying. Wishing you well.
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I didn’t know that risperidol didn’t do anything neither did invega it sucked however abilify helped me as a teenager once I hit 21 then it all went to ■■■■ till I got on haldol
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Invega works good 
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