I am debating on lowering my risperdal dose from 6 to 3-4mg. I didn’t have any sz symptoms on 3-4mg but had irritability and anger issues like fighting with my family and with ppl online occassionally. But my negative symptoms were slightly better on 3-4mg. What do you think?
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I was on 3-4mg stable for over a year.
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I wonder if irritability and anger issues are classified as positive symptoms?
On one hand, since I increased my risperdal to 6mg I never fought with my family, on 3-4mg I used to physically attack my brothers and to verbally attack my parents. But I am staying more in bed never getting outside, on 3-4mg I used to sometimes hangout with friends and play video games on my own. I felt more alive. Now on 6mg I feel more like a zombie, no emotions.
I get irritability and anger. It’s part of symptoms of emotion disturbance.
When I have it at home I just tell my gf to leave me alone and I just go and hangout in the computer room by myself.
If I’m in public then I use music
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Thing is I can’t control it, its there 24/7, I feel tense.
Impulse is a different aspect
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What do you mean, I guess I have both no impulse control and aggression?
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Yes that’s what it sounds like
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My Dr congratulated me for recognizing my own symptoms, anger issues, thats why he agreed to increase my risperdal to 6mg.
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Yeah awareness is good
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My depression will often go to a mixed state, where I get very irritable, bordering on rage. I also had the sz anger before being medicated.
I hate the irritability and anger. But it’s energy, and I hate the dark, painful depression more.
But I can control my irritability and anger. I am able to not act on it, and just acknowledge to people that I’m feeling that way. Then I try and use the energy for something productive. I used to scribble in a notebook when I got like that and I think it would be helpful to do it again. Pounding on a treadmill is helpful, too.
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im well versed in the mixed states. My least favorite state of mind.
Before I really understood it I definitely screamed at some people and wanted to run through walls and stuff.
Took a long time to develop control or strategies to reduce it
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At first I thought my irritability and agitation was mania but my Dr told me its sz. My diagnosis is sz and I read online that sz can cause irritability and agitation. Thats good you can control it, I can’t like @LevelJ1 said I also have no impulse control with the anger issues. So only increasing my med risperdal by 2mg helped. Honestly I feel much more calm and clear minded since the dose increase.
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I hear ya! It is AWFUL. Before I knew how to control it, I’ve almost been arrested for my “temper” (assault). I got very lucky I wasn’t.
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Yes glad you figured out how to simmer it down
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I have that sz rage, too. I’ve described taking APs as very soothing to my mind. Even just the other night, it felt like my brain was going to break, so I took my PRN Navane, and it soothed me a lot.
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I’m prone to pacing. Risperdal was td hell. Doesn’t hurt to try I guess. 
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I can get very irritable, angry, rageful and paranoid when either hypomanic, manic, or in a mixed state.
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I’ve had irritability and anger issues really bad since 2013. My anger issues started when I was a kid when I’d punch my game boy color then when I was a teen I would punch holes in the walls. In 2015 I punched my dad and broke his nose then went to jail then went to the psych ward where I got diagnosed with schizophrenia and they put me on meds that calmed me down.
I think you should keep taking 6mg of Risperdal until you can figure out how to control your anger then try to lower the dose with help from your psychiatrist.
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