I have done the aforementioned folly and went off my meds several times. Always ended with suicidal thinking severe depression. Voices so loud I can’t even think. I’d be homeless, dead or some combination of the two if I quit my meds. I hate being on meds but the other option, Option B is actually unbearable. #NOWAY
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my friend from high school (who i knew during my psychotic episodes) came over the other day and we got to talking about MI. He’s bipolar, I’m sza. He revealed he quit taking his seroquel.
He started telling me about how he transcended past the need for meds and how he didn’t think i needed meds. Yea. it was like that, so I was like well, i’ve been sane for a decade, maybe you should stop your bizarre compulsion to romanticizing psychosis.
I then took him to the park with my friend and he was weird and said unpredictable things that made my friend look at me like, is he okay?
that is why I know he is totally wrong, one does not just transcend psychosis, one succumbs to it in the end, and even when you think you’re acting normally, you might not be, and are instead making every one around you uncomfortable.
That is why I keep getting injected in the bum, the alternative is far far worse.
I appreciate my abilify
great thread! btw
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No drugs and no alcohol here!
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I just talked to my therapist why I don’t want to quit meds. I had to go two weeks without my meds because my in laws wouldnt take my partner to go get them. anyway I hated being without my meds my partner worked nights and slept during the days and she didn’t have a day off for over 15 days. my in laws wouldn’t even take me to go get them until they saw me on a bad day. I think I could lose everything if I stop taking meds.
I have stopped meds on my own before but sometimes I didn’t have them because I couldn’t afford the copay or no one would take me to get them.one pill I stopped on my own was fanapt that was because it tore up my stomach, I spent a week in the hospital because of it and it was there we realized it was the fanapt because I didn’t take it that entire week I was in the hospital and I felt great after getting out and my stomach was no longer giving me trouble.