What are you favorite meds? poll

  • Anti anxiety
  • Mood Stabilizers
  • Antipsychotic
  • Antidepressant

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Antipsychotics saved my life, though I need an increase

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APs changed my life. Iam much happier and stable.

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You still on Invega @anon4362788? What AP’s are you on @John_Raven?

I’m on abilify 10 mg probably getting it increased though

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Oh okay I remember now. Good luck.

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@lenny which mood stabilizers do you like?

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Seroquel completely turned my life around a few years back. It was the only thing that kept my suicidal thinking under control. I was recently bumped up on dosage and it’s helping even more. At least I think. Some of my thinking is just getting worse

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Between risperidone and abilify, I vote for abilify. I know they are atypical antipsychotics but they also act as mood stabilizers. I lived for years with ups and downs and I’ve been with antidepressants more than I’ve been with antipsychotics so I do value a lot not having such highs and lows that were impossible to deal with. The mood swings hit me hard on my adolescence :sob:

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My favs are Invega (the best I’ve had for schizophrenia), prazosin, chlorazepam (which I no longer take because it’s no longer available for me but I preferred it over klonopin.) (By the way I’ve never drunk alcohol. I just have anxiety.), and trazadone (which never fails to put me to sleep). I don’t want to choose a type because all the problems these drugs help with are just about equally bad.

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I like Geodon and Seroquel, but that doesn’t mean I like all anti psychotics. I like the anti anxiety med’s, but I overdosed on some of those, and I probably won’t get any anti anxiety drugs ever. Anti depressant drugs don’t work well on me. I don’t think I have ever been on a mood stabilizer.

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I’ve had four weeks out of four years of not hearing voices or seeing things that aren’t there. Definitely antipsychotics.

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I voted for mood stabilizers because Depakote has been such a lifesaver but the truth is that I also need to be on an antipsychotic.
I suffer with terrible delusions and paranoia.

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Lamictal has been a life saver for my depressive swings. I didn’t vote AP simply due to the fact I’m still trying to find on that fits for me. Risperidone and haldol weren’t good for me, switching now to latuda

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@TheBest Yes, they increased me to 234mg when 156 had no effect. I was a basket case. They also increased frequency to every 3 weeks because it wears off and I havebreakthrough symptoms at about 3 weeks in. Oh I also have risperdal 2mg prn for any breakthroughs.

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None of the above. I prefer stimulants.

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Antipsychotic. It has dramatically improved my life. It’s like night and day change.

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Oh no! I accidently voted when i wanted to see the results. I never even used mood stabilizers. :slight_smile: I tried to undo it but failed.

Im kind of amused by this thread. It never really occured to me to call a med a “favourite”. After some bad experiences I always saw them as nasty and evil. My perspective became less black and white over the years, but i still find it hard to see them as helpful. I like to read how others genuinely feel helped by their meds.

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No meds are my favorite

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I voted for AP’s hands down. My next favorite is definitely the anti anxiety med.

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