to me physical health is more important that is why i got off zyprexa there is no way i could eat as much as i was eating on that med long term or ever im so glad geodon is working well for me now i get to have good physical and mental health besides the one side effect of my heart possibly being kinda messed up. i would rather have psychosis than be physically having something wrong with me
mental health is important dont get me wrong but i am ok with being a little crazy because i am still in pretty good physical shape and now i have lost a bunch of weight and still losing also i am exercising more so in the future i think my health can only get better.
They are equally important to me. For example if my symptoms got so bad I killed myself my physical health wouldn’t really be important at all. Also a lot of times physical health is connected to mental health, like how I overeat when I’m depressed or upset or drink alcohol when I’m disturbed.
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Mental health for me. Because without meds I’d just think I could fly and jump off a building at some point.
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physical
you dont die from mental health problems
life expectancy is shorter and there is many suicides but you wont really die from mental illness
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Man they are both so important, but at my peak of psychosis, it makes it clear that mental health is more important. I’d rather die than live if my mental health was as bad as it was. So physical health wouldn’t do much for me.
Fortunately my mental health problems make me pace around a lot which keeps me in good physical shape.
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“What is more important to you mental or physical health”
both are important for me. but i’ve been lacking physical health with respect to food, which isn’t good.
outside of mi, some say that the two healths influence each other.
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Mental Health is way more important.
I will start believing others are out to kill me so this is when I will do dangerous things to defend myself.
It’s vital that I take my meds.
I can’t even afford to skip one dose.
I’m seriously considering receiving injections.
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@sigarino I am on therapeutic dose of olanzapine(Zyprexa) and so far this has worked like a charm.
I returned to my studies with a vengeance.
I think that it improved cognitive function to a certain degree, as well as getting rid of intrusive thoughts and voices.
And I haven’t started eating too much and have continued daily vigorous exercise.
And haven’t gained weight.
If this will continue this way this will be awesome for me.
This is just day 4 so I believe I haven’t even seen the full benefits yet.
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They are both equally important to me. I have sza disorder so mental health is important to me. But, I also suffer from migraines and osteoarthritis so, physical health is important to me also. I take AP’s and an antidepressant for my sza. And I do yoga everyday for my arthritis and I also take a hemp and CBD capsule everyday for the pain. I also take Naproxen for my arthritis too. It all seems to work really well.
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True they both are very important. Sometimes I take physical health for granted because I don’t have those problems. My sister has terrible migraines and I’ve had a much more difficult life than her. I’m sure she’d admit that. But still it hasn’t made it easy for her. I forget about all the ways someone can be affected physically negatively… It’s not just obesity and pain but so many different things. So it depends the extent of the physical issues too. But I got hit with SZA really bad when I was at my worst…fortunately I think I’ve recovered better than most, but it’s hard to believe many people were as bad at me at my worst, and still able to type on a computer. So you lose some, you win some. In that order. But I think they probably are equal in general, but it’s case by case situations.
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I think both. However, I value my physical health more than my mental health. Yet, I do value my mental health a lot because if my mental health isn’t adequate then I can’t function properly and live well. Physical health is #1 with mental health a close #2. As far as everything else in my life, those things can all take a backseat to my physical and mental health.
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Geodon has been a big help to me too. When I was on Zyprexa I gained sixty pounds in 120 days. I don’t know how I did that.
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@Erez_Shmerling this is long but i want to tell you this, olanzapine may not affect everyone else how it did me but it took me like a few weeks before i felt any different or gained any weight when i started taking it and when things changed oh my god, it might not effects u that bad if ur lucky but weight gain is almost inevitable i did a lot of reading about Zyprexa and it supposedly changes your metabolism drastically and made me so hungry i would almost kill to get something to eat almost hourly never full, and basically i went from 150 to 217 when i first started taking it and i only took it for a couple of months literally like 2 -5 months but i also gained height because i was 15 when i started olanzapine and before taking it used to be shorter than my brother who is 5’9" and now I’m 6’0 so some of the weight was probably just me growing but theres no reason to gain over 60 pounds in a couple months even if you eat like a pig everyday but Zyprexa will ■■■■ your metabolism to the point where everything you eat turns into fat so i quit it than and the weight gain stopped but i became psychotic again and didnt have a psychiatrist at the time because of insurance problems so i went back on it after 2 months and my weight went up to 240 and now i am on a different med and i have lost 33 pounds so now I’m at 207 but i want to be down to 160 but,
you might not feel any different hunger wise yet since u have only been on it for 4 days but in a couple weeks check ur weight often and if it is constantly going up and you notice you are eating more than usual u should switch to a different med which might not seem like the best idea but Zyprexa is the worst med for your weight and metabolism and it made any attempt at dieting impossible for me because even if you starve yourself the second you eat something its gonna turn right into fat as well as causing diabetes in some people luckily i didn’t get diabetes but my cholesterol went up while i was on it and now it is normal again, also Zyprexa will change your metabolism to make u use fat as fuel instead of carbs so all carbs u eat turn right into fat here is the article on that it is V http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/10/zyprexa_and_fat.html
it might sound like i am just ranting but if i can tell someone what it did to me they might be able to save themselves a few pounds before things get too bad i went from being someone who could eat all day and never gain a pound because of a high metabolism and being slim but kinda muscular without ever really lifting to being obese in less than a year and i still wish i could go back in time to never have taken that med and wish i was more informed so i could ask to be switched earlier but Zyprexa is over prescribed probably because it is so effective at treating psychotic symptoms but really it is not worth it it will make u gain so much weight no matter how little you eat and it also made me feel so bad when i wasn’t eating it was like i had an eating disorder and now that I’m off it i can go days without eating because i am never really hungry
basically to sum the longest thing ive ever typed before up if you gain over 10 pounds get switched off as soon as you can because it wont stop until you have gained like 50-100
mental health cause if you don’t have it, you can take care of your physical health =(
Other than extreme physical disabilities. it is one of my fears.
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Both are very important, I’d say mental health is slightly more important than physical health. There’s many people in poor physical health that are living decent, meaningful lives. Having extremely poor mental health almost always certainly means your life is currently bad.
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Equal. I want to have peace in my brain and perfect health in my body. I value both. Being physically healthy but suffering mentally is terrible (I am kind of there right now) but being mentally fine and having cancer is horrible. I choose both. Both please.
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