I try to take each day like someone who is an alcoholic would, and I take sort of a semi "NAMI" view that I have an "ism" that must be managed. I realize who I am and I thank technology for that. Being me is pretty difficult, though there is enough support technology for my weak ego to function.
Obviously, there is a dualism here with the antispychiatric movement. Perhaps I am "half" anti psychiatric so that a balance is struck.
I think that the next step is further development of the self, even with the risk of dementia. I dont' think that I have a choice--it is adapt or die, pretty much.
Speaking of the dementia, I have stopped taking the rhisperdol. It helped me during my episodes that resulted from my periods. These past two periods, one on October 4th and then November 9-13, were like Niagara Falls and the Premenstrual Dysmorphic Disorder produced highly focused, very negative psychoses which were difficult to navigate.
But back to the dementia, I still have problems but I am calmer and I can think slighly clearer.