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I’ve started realizing I can’t live without them. It’s just something I have to take like any thing else.
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Just wish there were less side effects.
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I have mixed feelings if I’m sick i’ll eat meds like m&ms they work great psychologically but I don’t like the side effects
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Yeah I definitely don’t like what these psych meds are doing to my body but the bottom line is that I need to be on them or I’ll end up dysfunctional
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I hate them but I need them. And I hate that I need them.
Change one, you’ve gotta tweak them all. And finding the Goldilocks spot for antipsychotics is near impossible. I’ve been shaking up my cocktail for seven months now. We think we’ve got all three figured out, but I’m currently way overmedicated on my AP so taking two steps down. I just want to stop crying every day…
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I have bad physical side effects from these meds, but better with than without them. I feel like I’m 80 at 25, but at least my brain sort of works.
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I’ve been on aps a long time, 35 years, and never got TD. I have gotten better physiologically and I only need a small amount now. Right now I feel I am just taking them for sleep, maybe not. Insomnia triggers psychosis in me. At one time I was on a large dosage of five psychiatric drugs, I was frozen the first month, emotionless. I became drug resistant because the drugs started making me sicker by covering up my emotions and keeping me in bed too long. I am pro- medicine though.
Nobody in AA or NA ever told me to stop medication either and I’ve been to two thousand meetings.
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In my case they really messed me up, I do better without them.
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I’ve been taking them 42 years. Hopefully I’ll be taking them another 42 years.
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I lived a dysfunctional life till I was 29 and got on meds. After that I led a functional life. I travelled and moved overseas. I had relationships with women that were real and not imagined. I worked and succeeded by my skills and demenour. Meds have made a life changing diffference to my life.
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I need my meds, i’ll be on them for the rest of my life.
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Unfortunately i need to be medicated. I dont mind my injection. Once every 3 months isnt bad. I wish there were less side effects. But i would rather put up with side effects than be off meds and be totally out of my mind.
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I hate that I have to take them. I take Abilify. I have no choice, I’m a danger to myself if I don’t.
Abilify makes me stressed out and anxious so I take some supplements to counteract that to some extent.
I’m glad meds exist, otherwise I’d just be getting abused by staff in some asylum somewhere.
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A necessary evil for me, unfortunately.
ETA: I do feel some type of way about meds, but at the end of the day, they keep me out of psychosis, help keep my loved ones closer to me, and help me stay out of the hospital or worse. They help countless others live quieter, more functional lives than the ones they’d be living without meds.
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Can’t live with them and can’t live without them.
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I wouldnt like to take my meds as they dont help. I still have voices and delusions and negative symptoms despite meds. I really dont see why I need to take meds.
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I think big pharma is a money grubbing greedy business Thats wants to make as much money as possible to profit off the people they are supposedly trying to helps misery and suffering. Whereas doctors are mostly nicer just trying to help you find the best medications possible. I think one med in morning and 1 at night is best . I go crazy if I don’t have any meds for awhile , but the effects of being given to much medicine is far worse then none at all. And being drugged up with 7-9+ pills is what drives someone to want to quit medications. So it’s a miserable cycle.
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There is a dire need for better more effective ones. That’s my opinion. Drug companies are starting to see a need for improved medications with greater efficacy, in my opinion due to Covid, as mental health issues are more popular now than ever and people with issues like Long-Covid have similar brain fog and negative symptom issues as schizo disorders.
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I can’t function without them.
My biggest gripe is doctors not giving enough thought into what they are prescribing and not taking side effects seriously.
At one point my pdoc tried to put me on a drug that causes heavy weight gain, and Im already very overweight on drugs that dont cause weight gain - and when I pointed that out he actually agreed. But even so - I shouldn’t have to double check the side effects of meds myself.
I also know of someone that had erectile dysfunction from his meds and was refused any other drugs so he stopped taking them and eventually got sectioned for it. But I see his point entirely. If the med causes an obvious problem - why should he be expected to keep taking it.
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