My mental state got bad untill i start looking into alternative medicine, now its even better than when i was showing symptom of mentall illnes and yet didnt have delusion. Now i even doubt if i can have delusion wile getting off medication. But i am continuing with alternative way along with my antypsychotic med untill i become complitly symptom free or at least barely noticable symptoms. Than i will stop using medication.
God is good.
I have struggled, have borne witness to my own actions and misdeeds through the confiding voices that seem to try to doom me yet are mystified by bravery and controversial thoughts I have. I think that every person ill or not has their own delusions…some people call them dreams! I know you want to become independent of medicine, just take your time in your decisions. I do because I am too old to make mistakes…
I’ve definitely gained a lot more insight into my mind and episodes and how they work. I end up coming up with more and more ways to manage them. It’s always good progression. I struggle with delusions far less than I did before (I still get them, but I know how to recognize them now), and I actually got myself a therapist, so that’s good too.
I’m glad you found a treatment that works for you! 
I have dealt with the positive symptoms through alternative medicine, and I have learned to think more rational and logical. Negatives seem to have progressed in the past year
I’m kind of at the point where I might need to try a mood stabilizer like lamictal or something
I dont have insight in to my delusions, because i am not having delusion. My medication keeps me delusion free. I had once 2 yrs ago for a few days. I was drinking every night and taking the medication on top, the alcohole reduced the effectivness of the med. since i dont become delusional, i will be in a totall mess if i become delusional again. I wont be able to differentiate reality from delusion.
You can not tell whether there are delusions or not until you are in the mid of it so take my advice and don’t stop the medication unless your doctor yells you to. My last episode was very tragic to me and my family and I had to enter the hospital for 3 weeks and until 2nd day I was sure these are not delusions and are actually part of my lost identity I have lost on medication. Now I’m positive I won’t let go of medication unless it is substitutes with a better replacement like the cbd god willing and only as regulated by my doctor. It is not fun to live the side effects but it is a nightmare to be delusional.
It’s true, when your having delusions it’s very hard to realise it is a delusion. For me after learning from the first few times, I am now much more careful and on guard with my thinking and logic
What alternative medicine did you use?
I have a holistic doctor as well, she done a neurotransmitter test and gave me supplements to raise some of my neurotransmitter, with those suppliments my depression is cured, my anxiety reduced and eventually in few months i will be anxiety free, my motivation is rising, guilt feeling some how gone… I am sza now i need a new diagnosis, i no longer become depressed and i have reduced my medication from 1.75mg to 1.25 so far. In couple of months i will be reducing to 1mg
which supplements did you take for the depression?
The labaratory recomends which supplement to take gives you direction how and when to take. You cant just buy and take it without having the test done. For every neurotransmitter there is labaratory made suppliment, so there is no supplement that works for depression, my cause of depressian can be different from your cause so if your willing to have the test done go to neuroscienceinc.com and request health practitioner that works with this lab in your area and start from there
yeah, but do you know what designer supplement they are giving you? ive read tons about biochemistry and which individual nutrients do what for raising and lowering neurotransmitters.
have they given you a detailed profile about what they are aiming to do? like raise serotonin lower norepinephrine , raise or lower dopamine, raise gaba etc… for depression currently im trying b12 and l-methylfolate havnt noticed anything in over 2 weeks so far… had tests for zinc and copper levels and their optimal.
Not really noticing any progress. The leap forward for me was 28-31 years ago and then basically I settled . The acute presentation of the earlier years gradually became a chronic one.
Yah i took supplement to raise my norphenpherine, serotonin, and gaba. One or 3 of them contributed to my mood stability.
i took a huge leap forward when i started questioning the validity of telepathy. now i know it’s not real they’ve come up with other threats. physical ones. strokes, heart attacks, bone breaking, tactile rape, car crash, pushing me down the stairs to break my neck, pulmonary aorta, internal bleeding, breaking my back, specific areas for the strokes like the brocca’s and wernicke’s area to destroy the ability to speak. now i have to question the validity of that.
I had so much progress that about four years ago I had a half reduction of both my meds by my doctor. Wish I could say it had a happy ending but ended up going backwards and was put back on the levels again. . But a lot of it was out of everybodies control as lost my dad, my cat, A friend committed suicide and my Aunt died of cancer all around the same time among other things. I’m still trying to dig myself out of the aftermath so at the moment pretty much back at the start.
when i was using a lot of alternative therapies and was doing yoga and was vegan and having acupuncture a lot i tried coming off meds, i spent 18 months psychotic over the next 3 years
i don’t think coming off meds is an option for everyone
i had a great psychiatrist in hospital, he was all for the alternative therapies but was also for medication
I’d like to think that I can get out of some of my delusional thinking quicker and easier. The anger management classes have helped me be more calm so when my family does try to tell me about some of my sneaky brained thinking, I don’t just get so mad at them and shut down.
I’ve been enjoying more moments of calm in my mind. What was once loud and hurtful has become a whisper behind a door and random silliness.
You are doing great Mindwhisperer.
I really like the idea of doing this in a holistic way along with traditional medicine. You must have a great doctor.
I can’t like your post mindwhisperer, because it states you will stop your medication. It is only through taking it that most of us get so well that we feel like we don’t need it in the first place.
I have been psychotic for such long periods when not on meds, and so startlingly better on meds, and even better on a higher dose, I am not even hearing voices any more. I can talk to strangers for the first time in my life in a reciprocal way… Not just blabbing about my life. I am really functioning and it is because medication has taken me 8 years away from florid psychosis. if i take less meds, i get symptoms creeping back.
maybe you could agree to take 3/4 dose for a year and see if you are just as well, then a half dose for another year.
they measure relapse in years not months
think about it