Only meds that work for me are vraylar 9mg, Cymbalta 120mg, and 450mg lamictal. Been doing this for 10 years now.
I’m not pro psychiatry but some people rant and go off the rails with suggestions, opinions, and pseudoscience. It does need to be moderated somewhat.
I sometimes wonder who pays for this site and runs it and who created it. I know the story, but I’ve seen academics and institutions on the about me page. It just scares me because of mk ultra. Even ucla and other schools were involved and even our government. I should know because I believe it happened to me and I am scared a lot and wary.
But they let me talk here and express my concerns and thoughts and opinions. I am hugely grateful and I couldnt talk about it anywhere else. I think having schizophrenia and being around other schizophrenics comforts me. It allows me to get my sickness out instead of bottling it up and getting sick.
My last bad relapse was caused by a user here who pushed alt therapies and who got her hooks into me. She is permabanned and rightfully so. Take that crap elsewhere so it won’t hurt people.
But really it’s not it’s an independent private owned site that has an idea for recovery in mind for people, a recovery model that has helped millions upon millions!!!
Including myself
@Gabzgrl please stay on meds, at least a low dose. Makes life easier.
I would only taper down to zero if you had a good backup strategy. Pretty much no one does. The closest thing I’ve seen to that is a pure vegan low fat lifestyle, which I’ve seen two cases of controlling positives (Victoria Everett and another person on a forum I can’t source, it was long ago.)
Keto can control positives too.
But if you’re just going to adopt the average American diet and expect to fare ok without meds, you’re going to get messed up.
Would like it if we could talk about more things. I feel its over protected. I mean ppl are still gonna see those other things in other places anyways. So wats the difference
The difference is that we protect our more fragile members. When something comes up that is a trigger for you, you’ll appreciate the moderation and protection.
It’s always the same, people don’t think things are an issue until if affects them.
Oh, you mean like using cannabis? Ugh. There’s a new cannabis store in town on my usual walking route. I have to go around it because every time I look at it I want some of the wretched stuff.
dude but my post wasn’t even about medication. It was about the label schizophrenia originating from a eugenicist and I wanted some clarity about that but it got closed so no clarity…and I am still bothered by it so there that pretty much sums up my experiences with psychiatry.
