Trauma- taking pills is actually a really huge trigger for my ptsd and voices i get flashbacks to times that hurt to remember
Dissociation- when triggered I dissociate a lot… not very productive
Dissociative identity disorder- getting my 8 people to go on meds and stay on meds would take a miracle. And even then it would cause a lot of choas in the headspace.
Withdrawal- I know I’ll forget I know my alters will forget and I hate feeling sick and in pain.
Side effects I have bad history with those they seem to hit me very hard
I feel I function pretty well without them. I have good days and bad days but for now I manage
@Noise So it’s technical reasons rather than necessarily meds wouldn’t work for you.? I can see how getting 8 alters to agree on anything would be difficult!
I’ve been prescribed 12 mg of Paliperidone, but I only take the full dose when voices are really bad, otherwise I try to get by on 3 or 6 mg. Taking it as needed seems to be the ticket for me.
I stopped using antidepressants and statins due to overmedication. Polypharmacy might be clinically necessary in certain situations, e.g., congestive heart failure; in other circumstances, it reflects unnecessary prescription use. This often occurs when clinicians prescribe new medications to treat side effects of other medications, creating a phenomenon known as a prescribing cascade. Other reasons include lack of efficacy and intolerable side effects.
I prefer to keep my regimen to the bare minimum number of medications. At the moment I’m taking only 2 essential medicines; a stimulant and an antipsychotic. I keep taking my antipsychotic only out of consideration to my family. If I had my way, I would only take a stimulant.
Yes mainly it’s technical issues. Me and my alters can hardly agree on what to eat lol. Back when we used to have daily pills some of us would take them, others…wouldn’t…
One time an alter took a bottle of my pills and dumped them in the toilet. Oooooh my god the withdrawals I went through from that holy hell my dude.
And a phobia of needles mixed with bad experiences with meds make me very hesitant to do injections.
And again I feel like for now I’m able to go without meds without causing too much disturbance/distress to my life and those around me.
I’m kind of coming off them because my pdoc said its okay. I experienced bad side effects like tardive dyskinesia amd severe ocd. I also had personality changes and delusions which I believe the medications I was taking may have made worse. I also felt like a victim of neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome. These things were so distressing to me that we have worked together to decrease our dosages. I’m currently down to 2.5mg abilify daily and feeling some of the intolerable stuff getting better.
I have generally chosen not to be on antipsychotics because they have all made me more or equally dysfunctional than how I am off them, or caused significant health issues. Not to mention the majority of them I tried either didn’t work at all, or only helped with some of my symptoms.
I only elect to go on them preventatively during times I know will be destabilizing for me. I then come off after.
Also my symptoms are not always severe. My psychosis is strange in that the severity tends to directly correlate with how much sleep I am getting. If I am getting 8-9 hours of sleep regularly they are usually fairly mild, and if I get more than that it’s like I don’t have a psychotic disorder at all.
However I always have to be on an antidepressant/mood stabilizer because I am a potential danger to myself otherwise. My moods are absolutely chaotic & unpredictable off them. Vs my psychosis is fairly predictable.
i wouldnt advice coming off meds…i did and i went downhill quickly…u just need to find the right combination of meds…in the past i thought i could do without meds but i now found out thats not true
I am only weaning off them cos my first pdoc said I need to be on them for a year or maybe he said at least a year I can’t remember … He diagnosed me as psychotic episode so far and I guess time will tell if its szc. Though I do feel negative symptoms
