I get annoyed and agitated easy
I don’t think i want to ever come off them
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Without APs,
I would be locked up.
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I have a lot more positive symptoms off APs.
Also feel more, I don’t know, sentient.
It’s an exchange.
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Off APs I end up in the hospital after a couple of months.
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I can’t cope and eventually end up psychotic in hospital.
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As I am now. I find “more sentient” the perfect description. This means I am more aware of all the good around me and in me. But also of all the difficulties. The later means I’m in a lot of pain. And more easily triggered into a delusion. But for me, the pain of walking around in a haze, as on haldol, is worse.
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I have a hard time off meds and always end up back in the psych ward. I wanted to go to the psych ward last year even on meds but I didn’t go because I’m already on the max dose of my meds and I don’t want any more meds.
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A lot of delusions. Some nice ones too. But I dont know if it is that I cant live without APs or if that is withdrawal symptoms. Sometimes I wonder if I can cope and manage without APs.
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Completely delusional, hearing voices, do crazy things end up on the ward
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Paranoid
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Paranoid but worse than now, insanely religious and receiving and delivering messages from God, and having a multitude of simultaneous but unrelated delusions while also struggling and having a full blown identity crisis. I do not fair well without meds.
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Well I get psychotic, suffer severe insomnia, and lately suffer from mood swings. That’s what I remember from 2015 anyway. Basically coming off of them is not an option.
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I’m mentally sharper, but more easily distracted as there is a higher volume of traffic running through my head. I have to take care to manage it properly.
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I can’t get away living my life without meds.
Within 2 weeks time without meds or at a lowered dose I would become extremely agitated, paranoid and delusional with zero insight.
My mania would be unstoppable
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This me to a T. I have more positive symptoms, but can deal. It took a lot to get here.
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It took me 30 years of meds to not have to take meds. The meds were a critical part of my journey and I would not have attained my current level of recovery without them.
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I wasn’t on for 30 years, but meds saved my sanity. I’d be dead without them.
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The meds are a blessing and a curse- at least for me I am more stable on them but the side effects, oh well- I’ll be a good person and continue on with the struggle.
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I get paranoid, and depressed
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I haven’t come off medications since I started them when I was diagnosed November 2020. I’m curious to see if I have insight. I’m kind of scared to know what I’d be like too.
I had been having hallucinations which led to delusions Nov 2014-Nov 2020. They got worse in 2020 though.
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