It’s been 2 weeks since I took my pills. I stopped caring about things. I stopped eating and sleeping. I’m coming off as happy to people, yet I can’t explain how I feel. I don’t feel anything almost, I feel so many different things I just can’t explain it. I’m just so tired of needing medications. I feel like crap on them, I don’t feel like me, yet when I’m unmedicated I still feel like crap. There isn’t any winning. I don’t know what to do.
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I’ve been in that situation, so I know how rough it is.
Did you stop taking your meds on your own? Have you told your pdoc that you feel like crap when taking your meds?
What I really want to know is how is the communication between you and your pdoc?
If you’re having thoughts of harming yourself please call 911.
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I don’t want to harm myself. My doctor is an ass every time I went to him he would never listen instead he would give me more pills. Every time I saw him he would only see me for 5 minutes and not even ask things. Instead more and more pills to a point where I take 75 mg in the morning and 15 mg at night. He just didn’t stop. I tried to see a new one months ago and he kept pushing me up an up on a waiting list. I got a appointment at the beginning of this month. I was supposed to see him 2 weeks ago and then he bumped the appointment to April. Even after I told him I needed to see him cause my illness has been so bad that I’ve been missing school. I just gave up and stopped taking my pills. I’m sick of doctors in my province not giving a damn. Where I live mental health is ignored by so many health officials. They don’t do anything for it and when they do they give you doctors that don’t even listen. I’m just sick and tired of it.
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This may surprise you, but i agree with you 100%. It’s inhumane.
I have to fight (and when I fight I fight) with my doctor all the time. There have been times where I wouldn’t leave her office until we reached a compromise. I’ve told her that she wasn’t seeing another patient until she was done with me.
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I asked my doctor to listen to me and he said I’m not that kind of doctor. I am just fed up with the healthcare system here. Why can they do everything in their power to help a physical ailment, but oh lord when there is mental illness they don’t do anything. They didn’t tell me what I could do, they didn’t give me support groups, they didn’t even tell me what my pills do. No what did they do forced more and more pills down my throat, every time I went they would up my dose. They don’t give a rats ass and I’m getting sick of them.
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Keep working with your pdoc, and let him know how the med’s are making you feel. Maybe you can find med’s that control your symptoms without making you miserable. There are a variety of med’s available.
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yeah. it’s usually a matter of finding the right med
It’s more of a matter of finding the right doctor. Without the right doctor you won’t find the right med.
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I know and where I live we are very limited of doctors for mental health. Where I live we have a mental health crisis and one reason is shortage of doctors because so many leave.
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What are you on? Haldol? What drug can you take 90mg of without overdosing?
75 mg Sertraline
Then 15 mg olanzapine at night
When I went to a psychiatrist the first time they didn’t really take too much into account then recommended several different drugs to take at same time.
I’m getting re evaluated next week. It’s been 6 years.
I just want to see if he has anything to say about negative symptoms or if its a depression or physical. Positive symptoms are pretty much nil besides minor mood swings.
I don’t care what the diagnosis is I just want to improve the negative spectrum.
I’m probably going to just get the answer I’m guessing “here’s a script for antidepressants” and no real help lol.
I should probably see a psychologist instead.