No, I have never fully gone off meds since being on them permanently and consistently. When I tried to reduce too far I seemed to notice paranoia creeping in though and increased dose back up appropriately.
I was taken off a small dose of Haldol many years ago. I grew tense months later. 10 months after stopping, I snapped and had a psychotic breakdown. I did not see it coming.
yea i do. i relapse really bad. i’m on first generation antipsychotics (clopixol) and when my doctor tries to switch me to 2nd generation antipsychotics (arapriprozol) i get really bad voices and i end up shouting and need pinning down. i’m scared to come off clopixol that i may just have really bad voices for days or even weeks.
I went off Seroquel cold turkey 3 years ago…first, I was unable to sleep. After 3 days of no sleep, I started believing that there were police and doctors in the apartments next to mine…I could hear them discussing me and they were monitoring my physical health using nanobots from the radiator that flew into my living room. I was so afraid of them that I wouldn’t even take my dog outside to use the bathroom. Eventually I called 911 cuz the doctors were saying I had ventricular fibrillation and was getting ready to die…I called 911 cuz I didn’t want to die alone.
Anyways, yes, it was totally messed up and definitely caused by stopping the Seroquel without tapering it…will NEVER do that again!