Who is coming off antipsychotics in the future?

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Not at all.i will be never ever quit again.

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Iā€™ll probably try once eventually. If it doesnā€™t work though I will probably be on meds for life after that.

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How many times have you tried?

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Didnā€™t we already have 2 or 3 threads about this topic? This is edging onto spamming.

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Iā€™ve never really tried except when I was first diagnosed and did not believe I had sz. So I guess maybe you could count that as once.

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Itā€™s the subject Iā€™m interested inā€¦. My main focus is trying to find out about medication free recovery and what the chances are.

Donā€™t have to reply if youā€™re not interested in the topic. Not everyone is accepting and happy to be on medication for life ā€¦.

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So you have an okay chance then.

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I honestly donā€™t know what my chances are but Iā€™d like to give it a try after I have been stable for years.

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Definitely hope for the future thenā€¦. Wish I hadnā€™t tried so soon after my first episode.

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Not happy about it, I just donā€™t have a choice. Same goes for my heart condition, diabetes, spinal injury, and arthritis. Sometimes you have to be realistic and learn to live with a condition. Or conditions.

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I think more than that, like 4-5 threads. Idk why heā€™s so obsessed about quitting meds, its not a miracle. I went off meds for 2yrs, I was less functional than on Abilify or Latuda.

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Yeah I think youā€™re definitely right. But can be difficult to accept. I suppose itā€™s a processā€¦. Even the mods are off of aps though. So itā€™s not bad to try

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Well itā€™s what I think about every day and Iā€™m interested in finding as much out as I can.

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Well like I said many times before, its your choice. What did improved in your functionality so far? Were you able to keep a job for a long time on meds and now youā€™re able too on low dose meds or off meds? I was working full time on 80mg Latuda, I couldnt work at all off meds.

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Iā€™m much more functional on 5mg Olanzapine than anything above. But miss feeling completely like me. Iā€™m new to all this so itā€™s not very long ago that I wasnā€™t ill.

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Not to disappoint you but even off meds for 2yrs I didnt feel the same as before sz. At least thats my own experience, idk about others.

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Worked in the same job for 17 yearsā€¦. Was excelling at work before my illness.

Can still work full time there but my career prospects have declined because of my two episodes.

I understand that Iā€™ll be incapable of working while psychotic if I come off again.

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While I was off medication I wasnā€™t completely back to normal but not far from it.

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Itā€™s fine to be interested in, but posting the same thing over and over goes against community guidelines.

Make 1 thread and keep to it. If you make more on the same topic they will be locked.

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Specifically the No Repeat Post section.

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