It has been a about 2 months maybe more being off my original meds,… I started different ones (lamotragine and was going to start sertraline)… I had a reaction to lamotragine so had to stop it and have been off meds for a few weeks now…
No psychosis… the anxiety is much less but it is still there and very annoying, have not even been back to work for fear I have done something very wrong… my colleague says I have not done anything wrong … but in my mind I feel people don’t like me because I got paranoid about them
When I stopped my meds I became delusional right after but psychosis happened after a year, I was suffering during the whole year though, the suffering kept increasing until my brain exploded with psychosis.
I’ve been off meds once, for 18 months. The symptoms slowly amplified until I was living in hell again and went back to the pdoc. I was doing quite well off meds, but one day, maybe 6 or 7 months in, the shiz started again and just grew and grew. I was not under a doctor’s care. I basically said fsck psychiatry and quit everything. So as you can see, there may be some time of smooth sailing, but it will eventually chew on your ass until you’re back to hell again.
I have to say that being on meds has been very helpful for me. My pdoc has increased my Prozac and got me going on Stelazine, and I’m doing wonderfully.
I start feeling wanky the same day.
I look at my pill strip and see how did I miss that?
I’ve tried weaning off many times to see if I was really OK.
It never goes well.
