Voices on meds

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So i have the same voices going on, just on medication they are nice not persecatory.

I should be thankful but i want my brain back

Im on 350 clozaril 2x per day
100mg uzedy 1x per month

Anybody else?

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Most of the last three decades. I had two choices:

  1. Medicate myself into a useless lump with no voices, but no anything else either.
  2. Learn to live with some voices, but strengthen my insight against them so I can have a family, friends, a career, and a life.

I chose door number two. My biggest problem is that all psychiatrists, everywhere, are on a mission to completely eradicate all of my positive symptoms. They can’t get their head around me using CBT to manage positive symptoms well enough to dial back my meds to the point where I have insight but am otherwise funcitonal. They see meds as the fix to everything. They are not. They are some pieces of the treatment puzzle for me, but not the whole puzzle.

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I’ve had visual hallucinations before and they talked to me. I had them while sleeping. It felt like another dimension or parallel universe. I guess they’re not real.

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I’m on olanzapine and I still hear voices. I have learned to live with them.

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Thanks for your insight and experience @shutterbug

Thats the conundrum i find myself in.

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I still hear voices on meds, but they’re not as “loud” or frequent, and they tend to have a simpler content. Like @shutterbug , i use a lot of CBT to manage breakthrough symptoms. But i couldn’t do CBT without the meds doing their part.

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I’ve had voices for over a decade daily.

You can get used to them and sometimes it practical as they can keep you company.

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