I lasted 4 months off meds
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Honest I had positive symptoms very soon like a few months after stopping but it didnāt require hospitalization until 2yrs have passed.
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Thats pretty good to last two years
I wish we could just take these meds for a short while and it fixes our brain instead of taking them for life
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My areas of cognitive weakness were there long before overt signs of mental illness. There were definite EF deficits esp re organising and planning. I tended to be disorganised and messy. I had thought my nonverbal intelligence was uniformly poor, but now think itās more of a mixed bag. Mental rotation & 3x3 matrix = borderline/low average. However age adjusted pattern recognition has me hovering around Mensa level. A new innovative measure of fluid intelligence had me scoring 151 and then 154.
Processing speed is another mixed bag. On one hand I have no problem with those online Wonderlic type tests. However my digit- symbol substitution performance is far from good. Thatās not unusual with both sz/sz-a & ASD.
I have never been good at manual/technical tasks. I am very probably also dyspraxic, though have never officially dxed as such. When I had my 1st psych appointment here in Wiltshire the pdoc had me do some things with my hands and he then said I was quite dyspraxic.
A curious one,IMO,though maybe not cognition related,when asked to make my arms go floppy I find it hard to do.
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Iām with you on this. I donāt get it either. If thereās side effects there are things that can be done to calm those effects down. But stopping meds doesnāt make sense. Life is so awful without them. And it only gets worse over time
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Because I feel better, then I think I can do without. Tried it twice. There is this wish that I can do without.
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