I feel restless, I keep hearing a voice telling me that I don’t really need my medication. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even know if I really have this illness or not, last time I went off my medication I ended up in the hospital and you’d think that would be reason enough to stay on them this time, yet here I am sitting here tonight and contemplating whether or not I should take my medication. Why does it have to be like this?
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you need to tell this to your pdoc soon…you need an uppage or change of meds…you don’t sound well…be careful…please take your evening meds…and morning meds if you need them. @Hanna_Foxx
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@jukebox I was just in to see him on Monday because I was suicidal. I feel like things are getting worse instead of better, I just want a way out of this stupid pit I’m in.
hang in there…it is very important and I can’t stress enough how important it is that you take your meds…you could slip off into delusion !!
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I can’t do this, not tonight
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Theres a light at the the of the tunnel. For me it was always a med change. Your ahead of the game of you know you have a mental illness. It was a long time before i accepted that. It took me awhile to find the right meds. Im pn abilify, cymbalta, wellbutrin and gabbapentin. There are hardly any side effects on any of them. Gabbapentin it seems like makes my brain function right, like it improves mental performance. It also makes me feel great, or maybe just normal if thats how people feel. Ask your pd for that, give it a try and see if it helps. Things will get better, hang in there
I took my meds, but it took way too much consideration to do so.
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I have gone off meds a couple of times, both times I ended up in hospital
This has happened a lot to me too. Half my 8 hospital stays were due to me thinking I don’t need my meds anymore - and I still get temptations to go off them. It seems to be common in sz or sza to want to go off, but it won’t help doing so.
Hang in there!
In my personal experiences, I wouldn’t recommend stopping the medication for myself. Each time I’ve stopped taking the meds I end up losing touch with reality over time. I was once allowed to by my acting psychiatrist and I went about a year and some months without meds. I can’t recommend it unless a psychiatrist agreed you are ready.
Smart move. Your pdoc will be more amenable to your wishes if your pdoc knows you are med. compliant and are trying to work a good recovery program. I’ve gone off my med’s several times, and every time it was a disaster. I scared my entire family really badly one Thanksgiving. It took a long time for the wound to heal. At the assisted living center where I live now I’ve seen other people go off their med’s, and it was a disaster for them too. In AA, when you hear something that is too wild even for you, they tell some of us “when you say, ‘I haven’t done that’, just add the single word ‘yet’.” You can lose a lot when you go on an emotional binge because you’re off your med’s.
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