Its interesting to read how different med work differently for everyone. No wonder it takes a long time for Dr. to find the right med or combination of meds. I was stupid to go off Zyprexa and try other meds. Finally went back on it and I’m doing better than I did on the other meds. But I am also taking care of myself better. Like drinking less and not smoking weed.
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Yeah it’s stupid but there is a part of me that has a strong affection for marijuana. I smoke it and I hear the devils voice. I know its an awful thing to do because it ■■■■■ with my meds but still I cant help it when the shits around. smoking it kind of symbolizes the maintenance of a normal life to me. where before I went schizo I was high all the time. Now I smoke maybe once a week and I just take a couple puffs just to keep the memory alive.
Get rid of it, the weed that is. It doesn’t do you any favours.
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yeah Ive probably smoked enough in my life already.
I am sorry that your situation is so difficult. You might just want to learn to ignore any voices that come. Suicide is never an option, although your voices may tell otherwise. I once took a razor blade and decided to end it all, blood just flowed and I am not going to do this any longer. I can guarantee that nobody reads your mind and you are not telepathic, these all are just symptoms of sz which I have had too, but nowadays I just ignore all and my meds are working very well. Frankly speaking, I do not know how I could help you. Good luck.
The Latuda I take doesn’t stop my auditory hallucinations. I have talked to my doctor about this. I decided to put up with them. It helps to direct our thinking outside ourselves. We have to accept ourselves as we are. Auditory hallucinations don’t come from without. They come from within. Telepathy is well nigh impossible. It’s a delusion to think we can communicate with others or they with us without speaking.
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The weed is a huge sneaky brained problem. I am stable and lucid and able to have a job. But this last summer I foolishly resumed my relationship with Mr. Marijuana and nearly lost myself all over again, scared my family and nearly lost my job. I got my butt back on track quicker this time.
But please… try being weed free for a bit and see if that doesn’t help.
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Oh I know it’ll help when I smoke weed I hear the devil. Show me you worship me go outside and kill yourself
my friend mary found this information online that can make sense of why the brain does what it does with schizophrenia…
**Google - Hearing voices: What’s happening in the brain of Schizophrenics
interesting article…
I find that crafts such as knitting and crochet help to distract me when the voices are bad.
When I get to the end of the day, exhausted as I am, and my symptoms are still there, I want to scuttle the whole thing–just disregard the whole thing; stop thinking entirely, pay no attention to the thinking; forget my mind entirely. This is impossible. Our mind is all we’ve got. We need it to proceed. It’s not going to stop until we fall asleep.
My son hears voices and it hurts me they toment him. I pray his invega will work. I know the voices tire and hurt him. I want to understand as you would any other disease.
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Have you ever told someone to die or to commit suicide? Maybe that’s why they’re doing that to you. Its said that they get to be on top, but maybe you should pay attention carefully since that’s all you can do. Well, I’m trying to shut it up. Try Christian Rock. I don’t think they’re demons, more like body controlling creature(s). Not sure if there’s more than one. I really hate not being in control.
I do know that there are many people that take more than one antipsychotic. Since I am doing well mentally on Risperdal, I was meaning to ask my doctor about lowering the Risperdal dose and adding another antipsychotic to the mix. By lowering the Risperdal I might be able to avoid some of the side effects. Does anyone know of another antipsychotic that would mix well with Risperdal?? I have been on Seroquel - good med, but I had to leave it because of serious side effects
I dunno, I’ve only tried latuda, generic ziprasidone at many different doses and Geodon 60mg 2/day (thats what im on now)
Have you tried Clozapine? It is pretty great from what I hear, it just requires blood tests due to a potentially lethal possible side effect…otherwise it is awesome from what I hear and what I know about it from the books. It’s not like other antipsychotics, it’s basically a super benzo, it knocks out psychosis, negative symptoms and anxiety.
If Geodon fails me one day, I am asking for Clozapine.
I have not tried clozapine, too scared of the side effects and I do not feel like getting weekly or monthly blood tests.
I was just thinking of adding another antipsychotic to Risperdal if this is practical. I don’t even know if my pdoc would go that, but I do know that clozapine is the gold standard antipsychotic - nothing else compares to it for SZ symptoms
been there man i just get times where i cant deal with it and just get too stressed about it and shutdown. I don’t even have a single schizophrenic friend in my local area which makes me feel rather alone in the journey but it is what it is,
one thing i’ve found that can help which is not really easy to do is to not think about supernatural ideas , it just eliminates the “what if” . one ‘drug’ you could look into is Vitamin B3 in high doses. Dr. abram hoffer has a bunch of info on it, thats what ive used for the past few years, it definitely isnt perfect but it does eliminate a lot of symptoms.
ah i totally know what thats like, constant reasoning with them ,when they are impatient then they usually have a statement like “look you can listen to us or not we dont give a ■■■■, actually we do care but its only because we want to help you and then were just going to ■■■■ you up” thats usually when i just say ah your just voices and tell them to ■■■■ off then they say something and i ignore it and they usually leave me alone after until whenever they decide to talk again…
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try too ask the voices questions.
they might not reply or get silenced
hope it helps you
Pretty much a large piece of why I no longer wish to have kids.