That’s a good question. I hate the idea of having to take my meds for the rest of my life. But i’m totally psychotic when I try to taper them. So i’m pro meds because i do much better on them. I just wish I didn’t have sza and need them.
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I hate taking meds it always interferes with my schedule.
Routine sux its worse than anything
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I would have more symptoms and more relapses if I would go too low with my dose of my meds. I have been taught this by many doctors and it seems to be part of my experiences of the years.
I do not like taking the meds because they often make me feel sedated or fatigued. But I must follow doctor’s orders. I do not want to get sick and lose everything that is important to me. Getting sick represents feeling bad for a few weeks in the hospital and then feeling bad for about 6 months after getting out of the hospital.
I have been on meds religiously since my onset of schizophrenia in 1981.
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I would be bankrupt and on the streets without meds
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The side effects are awful, this is why I don’t want to take my meds, but I take them religiously because I don’t want to end up in jail or the hospital.
I really don’t have a choice.
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Yes, the side-effects.
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Mine haven’t worked for about a year… remind me do they stop voices , intrusive thoughts, and depression? Not even trying to be funny. I feel this stuff is hopeless
Neither mine work but I take them
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I know what you mean. I have wanted to stop taking them for ten times. And when i realize what happens if i dont take them i change my mind. So its always…dont want dont want…want want
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I don’t want to take them and most people here know why. But I can’t not take them I have tried. But now I have to see a cardiologist about my heart because of Geodon.
I don’t know what I am going to do about that. Geodon is what works for me.
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It can be very easy for me to start to see the drugs as punishment, and not as therapy. There was always contention before I was prescribed a major tranquilizer, and that caused me to see the drugs as punishment. I stay on them now because I know what happens when I don’t take them.
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I’m pro meds because it’s the easiest and safest solution, the only option is being un-medicated, which never ends well.
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I would be in the dirt without meds honestly
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I want to take them too.
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hey. im not. and not taken em 
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Taking medication is against my religious beliefs. But i take them religiously. It takes a lot of dedication to take them. I always wondered if the psychiatries take over the role of the church and decide what is mentally ill abnormal or common.
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If It weren’t for meds, I probably would have died, by my own hand, long ago.
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Have you told your doctor about this? If your meds haven’t worked for a year and they aren’t changing anything they aren’t very good. But I had the same experience over and over for many many years.
When they did change things that didn’t work either. Until finally something did.
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Oh Medication Oh Medication
You are truly my pills
My Medication, you sacred ones you holy once
you innocent looking pills
I love you I hate you I need you
You show me your ways
My ways are leading to hell
but you lovely tablets show me the true way to life
Only with you as my companion i am able to experience true heaven
You great protector my refuge
Pill you are my sanctuary
You medication save me from being inconvenient to my friends in the community
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The first med I was on was a depot and it’s main effect was to make me want to spend every waking moment in bed. I hated my life on that med although it did get rid of some of my positive symptoms. After a year and getting back some self-respect I told my psych team I was not coming for any more injections. I lasted for another year before I had to go back to hospital but this time they put me on a different med in tablet form which worked better and gave back the control to me. Now I take my med and many times since I have thanked medical science for making pills that work.
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