Unmedicated vs anipsychotic medicated brain

Me on meds…

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There is a growing anti - medication movement growing on this site - It is somewhat disturbing.
It is one thing to acknowledge the fact that the psych meds have side effects - it is another thing to negatively influence others from staying on their meds. I find it appalling

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Yeah no one should be discouraging med use. People should be aware of the potential side effects and what to look for. All the motor side effects. Amplification of negative side effects, cognitive impairment. It was pretty good one here for months when the message was never stop shopping around for the right med.

It is true though, some people can manage this illness without the meds. Those souls are few and far between.

I hope to be med free some day, I’d just rather live with my natural chemistry. It’ll probably be a year or two, but in my case the meds I’ve been on have done nothing to the positive symptoms.

I am glad to have had a ritual every day though. I take the pill and get the feeling like I’m fighting this. It did that much for at least.

For now I’m sticking with medications. I just don’t want to grow boobs, get lockjaw, diabetes, pituitary tumors, any of that stuff.

My problem are exclusively positive symptoms, voices, delusions, hallucinations of telepathic communication. These are inescapable things I have to live with. Meds are a financial burden. I will always be good to have some on hand.

People shouldn’t fear big pharma. They should be working it to get the best meds and service possible. That takes time, we together on this site have a body of knowledge and experience that people need to know.

Don’t worry wave I agree with you, and there are several others. I would say though, people have every right to fight this illness as they choose.

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I have never been on meds but I don’t discourage them at all. I’m just stubborn and want to go about it the way I am for now.

I don’t know what it’s like to be on meds. But the no med route can feel like a pendulum swing or a ticking time bomb. Other times it’s great.

Having been medicated for the past 4yrs versus not medicated - I much prefer no meds. Until my pyschotic break in 2010, the voices were my angels I took care of and then they disappeared and that was scarier than knowing they were there. The meds zombified me to the point life wasn’t worth living. At least without meds I was able to feel and do, see and understand. On meds I slept 22 out of 24hrs, was confused all the time, and had memory loss.

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I am not discouraging the use of meds. I think they do help but each person should work with their doc to get the right med and dosage for their symptoms and be fully aware of the side effects. For me it is an life-long ongoing process. There are very few meds I can take due to other illnesses so my choices are limited. Each person is different and will have different results based on their chemistry makeup.

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I think there is a difference between posting that you are not on meds and how you cope without meds, versus posting highly biased and cherry picked stuff designed to potentially scaremonger people into going off meds.
As much as possible balanced info as to the strengths, limitations and negative aspects of meds or therapy is essential for people to make informed decisions.

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Your definitely smart firemonkey, well said

OK I am not asking anyone to stop medications.

But we have been through that earlier by experts.

Merely an increase in Neurotransmitters does not always mean that the illness is solved.

To give you an example:- Lets says there are brain Hormones like Serotonin, Dopamine,Oxtocin and I dont know about other hormones. I know that the pituitary gland located somewhere near the brain is responsible for your height and growth and maybe testosterone and estrogen.

The point is that this hypothesis that merely increasing the quantity of hormones between the synapses of the neurons increases happiness is just that - a hypthosis. There is no empirical or medical evidence for it…

There are at a minimum - trillions of Neurons in the human brain. At a minimum for a single thought to occur somewhere in the brain - be it reasoning or emotions there are millions of neurons all co-ordinating with each other , talking to each other, working in co-ordination with the neurotransmitters.

The function of the neurotransmitters is to transport these messages between the neurons. NOTE: They are merely transporting agent. They are not responsible for the actual thought. The actual thought or emotion is produced by the Neurons in the brain.

I think it could be a fallacious reasoning that by merely increasing or decreasing the quantity of these neurotransmitters could bring about a successful treatment for mental illnesses.

I think the mechanism and functioning of the brain is very very complex and I believe it is more powerful than even the most powerful supercomputers that we have.

Further I have a second problem with this line of work:-
I dont think blocking the receptors is a good way to increase the quantity of the neurotransmitters in the brain. I believe blocking any part of the body and most importantly the brain could lead to harm to the brain.

Just my two inputs.

Note: this post is just my opinion. I am not trying to troll or be anti-med. A topic was started on the image and I gave my inputs.

cheers.

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Blocking the receptor means that dopamine can not bind to it , thus it generally reduces the effect of dopamine on the brain. There is some evidence that the body compensates by increasing the number of receptors

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