Anybody else??
One day I feel great, next day like crap… and vice versa. I’m on Abilify and Lexapro (an antidepressant)
Is this part of my mental illness? Or is it just normal?
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I’m the exact same and I’m on abilify too. I wrote a poem about it today in fact!
The best advice I can give you is to quit coffee. I felt the cycle was broken when I was off coffee.
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What makes your mood?
Arghhh… but I love coffee so much…
Would black tea do the same thing since it has caffeine?
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What do you mean? Nothing specific is affecting it. I just wake up in a weird mood or I wake up in a great mood
It has much less caffeine I think. So you could give it a go.
When I came off coffee cold turkey the coffee withdrawals were brutal. So be prepared for that.
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okay… maybe I’ll try just drinking tea…
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I can relate…15151515
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just saying if u knew how 2 change your mood, it could work
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coffee kills sedation from meds
Its a great stimelater
Most countries have it
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I hug my husband every morning and that helps me start my day on a positive and/or comforting note. Maybe try and find something that helps start off your day on a better foot.
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Yeah… I don’t know what would help though honestly.
Wish I could hug my husband😭
How is your husband doing btw??
I also have ups and downs, but overall I function reasonably well by the standards of the general public,
and superbly well by the standards of schizophrenics.
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How so, Chess?
How are you doing so much better than other schizophrenics?
Well @GoldenRex , it is a combination of many things, among them my management of symptoms
without APs, thus saving me from their debilitating influence, I eat super healthy, I do aerobic exercise
every day, I have a regimen. All these these and others things produce great results for me.
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I’m glad to hear you’re doing well @Chess24
Whatever works for you and your measure of success,
But don’t compare yourself to other schizophrenics.
You don’t want to go there.
What do you eat?
I felt superbly ■■■■ this morning 
amazingly awful, it was the worst i have felt waking up for a long time idk why