I cant live with d side effects of antipsychotics. They destroyed my life. They are still destroying my life. Any thing other than taking med that help when u are diagnosed with sz?
Just roll with it… i don’t know man…
I’ve always been the non violent/passive/reserved type any ways… I don’t need meds to survive this ■■■■. Things seem to be getting better as well…
I don’t know what you’re sz is like though. it’s about a billion different diseases. I “thought broadcast” and these people treat me like ■■■■… to hell with them though.
its probably not real
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Avoiding drugs, stress, alcohol, caffeine and exercising. I think those things help. I believe the drugs make you lower functioning and actually increase psychosis risk when you get off of them due to sensitivity of receptors. I know if I got off of the drugs, I would be working and would be thin. But I believe I would suffer. I don’t want to suffer so I take my meds and put up with being fat and lazy. I know taking meds will decrease my life span ( ignoring reduced risk of suicide) due to increased risk of diabetes and heart problems. I’m also worried about brain damage by getting off the meds, but maybe the drugs themselves cause brain damage. Who knows?!
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They say the most terrible things to me 
Actually, i cant say im suffering with sz if i let alone the antipsychotics. I dont have much symptoms i look and feel quite normal despite my huge size and cognitive impairments, both i would attribute to the antipsychotics. I want to go off med. I cant keep exploding my weight.
Have you tried changing your APs?
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I have tried about five different APs. All of them are disastrous. Im prescribed sulpride right now as it seems to be milder. All the AP seems to induce enormous weight gain in me. I look so abnormal and ugly with the help of my AP.
Im exercising and paying attention to my diet. But instead of losing weight, i gained 6 lbs over three months.
sorry to hear that. I haven’t much weight gain, just more laziness related.
No nothing nada zero…
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There is just the vague hope of cbd meds around 2017, other than that, to stop yourself becoming psychotic and thinking you can fly and harming yourself and others you have to rely on antipsychotics. There is no other answer.
They have med’s with less side effects now. Maybe you could try one of them. Keep trying different med’s until you find one that isn’t so hard to tolerate. Different AP’s have different profiles of effects. What is intolerable for one person might be perfectly okay for another. I knew one guy who could take any amount of Stellazine and it had no effect on him. Just a small amount of that drug will flatten me.
I been med free since July. Trust me, my voices are some of the worst out of all.
-Thought echo of me sounding demonic and sometimes saying the opposite of what I think. (if I think “love” it says, “love, I don’t care” though I’m a hopeless romantic)
-Imitation of my ex girlfriend, calling me by my nickname and exact same way she talks with a slightly demonic tone (though I been over her for a good while now)
-Pushes the word “KILL” or “POWER” constantly into my head in full force, demonic
-Accuses me of being evil and that I’m going to hell
And then I have the craziest tactical hallucinations, very sexual and constant strong shaking of where I focus. Some painful, others feel real random touching.
My theory is that the brain processes negative and positive thoughts separately in different areas of the brain. So with my voices, whatever I say or think, the negative side of it gets “heard” seperate to my mainstream thought. This includes insecurities and what you dismiss as the opposite answer to what you believe. There are other things I can explain, but I can go along with what you hear is the opposite of what you think and settle with in the mainstream. Today I told my voice, “but I’m not a girl” and it broke serious logic by replying “yes you are! MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!” Then I said, “well, I never been greedy neither” You can cope better with the voices if you believe the opposite of their negativity.
I been on 200% essential vitamin for heart and brain, but have this urge of going back to the psych ward and getting back on meds. I still have Seroquel leftover for 10 days, but Seroquel doesn’t really work as much, wake up feeling “possessed” at rare times and tactile hallucinations are present.
I just recommend you stay on your meds and add vitamins to your diet. Search; Dr. Hoffer Schizophrenia and Niacin… You can start there with a vitamin that might help you lower symptoms.
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Get a copy of this book and read it. Have your family read it, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Schizophrenia-6th-Edition-Family/dp/0062268856 -
If you need a higher level professional intervention, tell me where you live, and I will get back to you with leads to those services.
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Get properly diagnosed by a board-certified psychopharmacologist who specializes in the psychotic disorders. One can find them at…
Find Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nurses - Psychology Today -
Work with that p-doc to develop a medication formula that stabilizes your symptoms sufficiently so that you can tackle to the psychotherapy that will disentangle your thinking from reality effectively. The best of the therapies for that currently include…
DBT – http://behavioraltech.org/resources/whatisdbt.cfm
MBSR – Welcome to the Mindful Living Blog
ACT – ACT | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
MBBT – An Introduction to Mind-Body Bridging & the I-System – New Harbinger Publications, Inc
10 StEP – Pair A Docks: The 10 StEPs of Emotion Processing -
the even newer somatic psychotherapies like…
SEPT – Somatic experiencing - Wikipedia
SMPT – Sensorimotor psychotherapy - Wikipedia -
or standard CBTs, like…
REBT – Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
Schematherapy – Schema therapy - Wikipedia
Learned Optimism – Learned optimism - Wikipedia
Standard CBT – http://www.beckinstitute.org/what-is-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/About-CBT/252/
Over time, I found that I could take lower and lower doses of my third go-round with anti-Ps (Seroquel quetiapine after Risperdal risperidone and Geodon ziprasidone) by getting traction with these psychotherapies.
I can definitely relate to that. When I was on latuda the akathisia was so horrible I couldn’t stop moving. I could probably run a 5k and still feel like i needed to move. I don’t even know why there are so many terrible side effects with some of these meds, besides adding different chemicals will change the bodies chemical structure and cause reactions. Olympic marathon runners should take latuda they’d be invincible lol. I find without meds meditation, brain spotting, and exercise with a goal like a sport helps a lot. Also hiking. I use a nicotine vape which helps but I don’t recommend nicotine its just another drug. The day Gattaca becomes a reality is the day I’ll cry with joy so the generations after will never have to deal with meds or any of this nonsense and have a fighting chance.
How much sulpride are you prescribed