Hi guys. Hope you are doing well !!
.today I visited the top institute for mental health in india (Nimhans). Psychiatrist after considering my history said that i can quit antipsychotics after taking half dose for about 3 months . Has ever your psychiatrist recommended so? (Fortunately I have not been relapsed since my first psychotic episode). Please share your story .
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I hope it all works out for you. We’ll all be here for you if things go tits up.
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I hope it works out too.
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I seem to rember you were only on 5mg of abilify so as the minimum dose for it to act as an antipsychotic is 10mg you’ve been off meds all this time anyway!
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Thank you so much 
how you have been doing?
Hi how are you!?Yes but even 5 mg is something then nothing.So the brain needs time to adapt without it.I will be taking 2.5 mg now afterwards i will quit.All I don’t want is a relapse hence slowly and cautiously doing.
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Thanks you for being hopeful and positive. most important thing we want 
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Yeah good luck @anon19234026!
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If someone has had only one episode then yeah it’s not uncommon for it to be tested if they can be taken off APs after a given period of time. I hope all goes well for you and it was just an acute episode!!
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my doctors has tested me on lower doses of meds before and i always relapsed it was terrible. i was scared for my life after the doctor lowered my latuda. i became panicked and i called my doctor after about a week and first they moved me to a higher dose of invega that didn’t work so finally they raised the dose of the latuda back up.
i wish you good luck and i hope it works
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I will be speaking to my GP in December about coming off my meds. Fingers crossed it goes well.
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Ambling along in the slow lane.
Never had a psychiatrist even hint that I could get off medication. One straight up told me I’d need medication for the rest of my life. I resented him saying that, but now I realize he’s probably right. =/
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Hope it works out for you, I had a doctor tell me the same and i ended up in the hospital a few months later, she was wrong
Not in those words, but yes. I tried to reduce with the aim of quitting. I had been stable for about 2 years. I got down to 600 mg Seroquel and then 400 mg Seroquel for a short while before the symptoms got too troublesome. Oh, and I found out I no longer need Zyprexa on top of Seroquel.
We don’t do it like in the US all over the world, you know. Here, the standard is to try to get off meds the first time after 2 years, regardless of how many episodes or how long, and then every 5 years after that.
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I heard that people with claimed mental disorders recover in the highest rates per capita in rural India. I also heard that the rates of disorders per capita are in rural India.
The highest rates of disorders per capita are in 1st world nations’ metros.
Best of luck bhai…!!!
Nimhans situated in which city.
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Banglore … do u want to visit…!!! Aku…
Bangalore!!! But I want to go Mumbai for advice to quit med. From 2006 I have no episode. I am taking now 5 mg abilify from 3 years.
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