I think I donāt need any medication adjustment,sometimes I feel I can be taken off Abilify,reason being that I feel Mirtazapine is enough for my illness and also Abilify causes sexual problem
Anyway,I am attending therapy every 2 month now and itās helping me lots,like my therapist encouraged me to join meetup and I had made some friends,it just help me kickstart abit of my social life,I donāt know if I would get more different kind of support from therapy but I am willing to be patient and keep doing therapyā¦
Itās entirely possible. I take a higher dose of Geodon and also a slew of other sedating meds and Iām still quite energetic and passionate about what I do and what I want to do in the future.
Itās a balance between medication and your own mind, itās partly our part, partly the docs part to fix our brains to a degree. We have to put in half of the rehabilitation work ourselves as outpatients.
You will get there, youāve just got to quit thinking of yourself as the label āschizophrenicā; you be you and be awesome and healthy and happy and cool or funny or whatever being you is all about- let it come naturally. Iām a funny and intense guy. Some guys are mellow and very cool. Some guys are loud and obnoxious. Some guys are quiet and very rational. Itās not about fitting into society, itās about being who you are and society must accommodate and not discriminate against whoever you truly are.
I think youāre (this is stereotyping but itās okay given the context) cool and can be pretty funny. Just be proud of yourself and let it run free.
Hey dude,thanks,I think I am pretty cool too,as for funny,sometimes I am funny,being funny for me depends on my mood and also surroundingā¦I had trouble feeling proud of myself,still scratching my head and figure out how to get myself to speak louder,confidence and be more socialableā¦
Yea will learn to be proud of myself and let things run free : D
When I first started risperidone in 2010, it stunted my feelings, then I was put on fanapt, that didnāt help me at all but I could feel. Then another doctor switched me back to risperidone she had me on a really high dose. No more voices but I was so tired. Then for the third time by another doctor I was given risperidone then a low dose. The voices came back, and I felt every emotion intensely. I went without meds for a while and went to a new clinic.
The new clinic put me on latuda and lexapro. Eventually I got on a high dose of latuda. And was put on invega. Invega and latuda together worked for awhile but soon I kept needed stronger and stronger doses. At my new clinic he has me on latuda, haloperidol and lithium. I feel less but I havenāt lost my temper in awhile either.
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If you have bipolar, cyclothymia, or some other form of agitating autonomic skew towards sympathetic pitch, I would definitely not recommend being on Remeron by itself. Remeron is not an anti-P; it is an anti-Dā¦ and that would be the last thing you (really) want to be on by itself if you like being stimulated / excited. It would be almost the worst med I could think of for anyone with sexual compulsivity, for example.
Better to learn the mindfulness skills, a typical side effect of which is decreased compulsivity across the board without attendant anxiety about it.
What kind of therapy? Does it have a specific name? It may be that you can boost it (ie speed up the results) with workbooks for that specific therapy.
Geodon 60mg once daily, emotions dull, life dull, sedatedā¦ donāt take it and if you take it get a low doseā¦it sucks but im stable so im not switching unless its absolutely necessary.