Um. That’s actually a life goal for me.
I have issues.
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Some of it will stay in your body for a few days after stopping, then you’re pretty much needing to take it as soon as you can get it back.
The thing to note, is medications can change effectiveness once you stop taking them, and if you try to take them later, they may no longer work.
I was on a depression medicine, decided to stop taking it because I felt very well and over my depression, got the docs approval, later started getting sadder and sadder crashed, and went back on it, but it seemed to do nothing.
That’s whats led to this current situation where I’ve had to add an additional medication to feel therapeutic relief from my depression.
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I’ve lived in a facility for the mentally ill for a long time. I’ve seen a number of people come off their med’s, and they messed up.
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relatable.
when i quit meds i get a boost of energy the first day, find it easier to lift weights and game and read for longer, slowly over the course of a week my irritability increases to the point where i go into a rage, once this rage begins i spiral into instability having violent thoughts and suicidal at the same time. ive never quit meds long enough for the voices to come back but i cant imagine how terrible that would be considering that just stopping for a little over a week leads to me being in a state where only bad things can happen
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From what I’ve read on the forum for the past 14 years, a relapse is likely.
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I’m psychotic on meds. I hear voices, sometimes a delusional thought flares up. I feel strange sensations in my brain.
When I am off meds I get beyond crazy. Last time I ended up at the ER with a brain hemorrhage.
I wish I could go off them. But once you get psychotic you have brain damage and the brain can’t repair itself from psychosis. At least that’s what I’m told.
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When I quit I start to feel myself again but a few weeks or months later it goes downhill.
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I quit my meds cold turkey once. I made it 5 days and was in the ER.
Worst I ever was. Started hallucinating. Didn’t do that before.
I am tapering off one of my APs right now but I take two of them.
Will stick with the other one.
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Quit meds thought God was talking to me, thought one of my professors could hear my thoughts, thought I could hear his. The voices told me this person loved me, and when I told the person I loved them they told me I made them anxious and they never want to meet. Was extremely paranoid about my family and my brother’s wife. I have been med compliant since. That was 2019… I think that’s when I joined here. Can’t afford to lose focus … school is not cheap.
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Ouch! When I was at the hospital I started flirting with all the staff. It was very embarrassing and awkward now when I think of it.
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We do a lot of weird stuff when not all there. It wasn’t completely you at the time, don’t feel too weird bout it.
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most of The nurses are damn beautifull at the ward. I stared at the nurses likewise you speedy 4 months ago.
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I kinda went overboard with the flirting. It was awkward and strange. I shouldn’t have done that. But I was psychotic so I do have an excuse. Hopefully they don’t remember me or wrote anything in my journals!
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That’s what happens when I came off my med’s. Some of the things I have done when I am off the med’s make me cringe. I knew one guy who killed another guy in a bar and then walked down the street to the sheriff’s office and turned himself in. I don’t know where they put him or what they did with him.
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Finally I’ve learned my lesson and that’s keep calm by the help of calming medication. I’m damn scared of all the activating meds you can get out there. So I’m sure that my meds finally is adjusted to my needs.
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