Permanent brain damage from antipsychotics?

angelbeatz wrote:play videogame 24/7. This would help activate your brain more. When I was off the meds that what I do all day and my brain was back and my lack of motivation was gone. With the injection it may take a bit more time for your brain to come back to normal but eventually it will.

Thing is the anhedonia created by anti psychotics makes the games not fun anymore

Well, I do not know for a fact, but Haldol's two irreversible effects- 5HT7 and Sigma 1 deactivation should not have that profound of an effect. It may take months for your emotions and empathy to resurface. You may need a trigger, something that triggers a memory that triggers emotion associated with the memory. It took me about 3-4 months for my emotions to return after the cessation of Invega, but unfortunately my Borderline returned as well, making things difficult. But I was glad later that I had them back, and could love and care and feel empathy again.

Sometimes, things get into my perspectives, too. I take the medication, I make myself feel 10 times worse than the medication actually makes me feel, because I play it up in my mind, and expect it. Sometimes, you have to fight to regain things. As far as intelligence/cognition, another thing you could try is Luminosity. Haven't tried it myself yet.

I used to feel the same way that you do about society. Normal conversation made me sick too, but my perceptions have changed. I almost always find a topic to relate on. I enjoy it, it doesn't have to be that deep. I prefer to hang around with the mentally ill, alcoholics, drug addicts. It's a different world, a little more real than all the superficial crap like fussing over status and appearances.

Hello everybody. I would like to share with you my experience with antipsychotics. I had OCD and I was hospitalized. They put me on Fluanxol depot injection, after which I felt like total zombi out of this world. I didn t communicate because I had something like block, I had completely empty head and no feelings. I wished to die. I took this depot injection four times, doctor ignored my complaints. Anyway, 5. November was my last shot. After I still felt out of normal state ansd like zombi.
I am very religious person. I prayed to much God to help me and I believed, also everything seemed to be bad. I was also very very tired and I started to be in shame infront of people because I was silent and wierd. Anyway, I prayed every day. Today is 4. February and I am new person, or old haha, because I am like I was before. Thanks to God. I believe this strong and disgusting injection was in my system until now, because until now I had to move all the time with my feet and now I stoped to and I feel normal. I started to have interest in things and communicate. Doctor told me that in December injection was completely out of my system, but I don t believe.
So people I believe that you feel like that because antipsychotics are still in your body. But don t worry I recovered from very bad position and I am sure you will also. I am praying for you all, and I advice you to pray also. If you give it to Jezus, he will change it in absolute victory.
Psalm 12,6: "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my help and my God."

Sorry for my english, I am from Slovakia. God bless you.

Hello again. I want share with you what I experienced. I can tell you first that all you who feel numbed and tired, etc. as I did and sometimes I still feel, we all have not only problem with drug but with unforgiveness, anger, and hurtings in our hearts. That s why we are numbed. We need to forgive everybody,[mod edit] Because real hapiness is not in world around, but in your soul. Trust me! I experienced it. In past I was dependent on outside impulses. But it wasn t right. God, through this numbness brought me to freedom of my soul. Even If I will feel everything like before, I won t allow outside world to influence state of my heart. My heart is in neverending love-
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why you got to be right is, they are torture to go on, so they really got to be good for you...

http://youtu.be/RUE4v1rUpSM

Best scene ever, notice ending quote
"There is NOTHING like the scene of an amputated spirit!!"

I have the permanently fat problem too. I've been off antipsychotics for 2 months and it has not improved. Also, I still have adhedonia and a lowered sex drive. I've explored all sorts of solutions and I have not gotten anywhere.

I was on Risperidol for about a year and have the exact same debilitating brain injurying effects as the writer of this thread spoke about. I feel far to much like a vegetable. I can not plan very well for future events. I have motor skills damage. I have a bad tremor in my right arm. I can't even feel depression, happiness, sadness etc, creativity. I feel like these drugs have taken everything that is human about me out of me. And it doesn't seem to take long for these drugs to do there damage. I have been off all medication now for a few months and have had no recovery from this problem what so ever. I have read this now numerous times on other sites from others who have also been forced to take these anti-psychotics. So know I agree with the writer of this thread it is also my opinion that this damage is from the anti-psychotics medications. I am appalled at the lack of science used in Psychiatry. Where is this test that test for brain chemical imbalances. These are dangerous drugs. No one needs brain damage.

I tried Seroquel and it introduced me to a whole new kind of horror. It was so bad that I have flashbacks and nightmares about it. I didn't care about anything, and so I was happy to inflict my abusive side on my loved ones, because I didn't love them anymore. Antipsychotics will put me in prison or my grave, guaranteed. It stripped away everything I enjoyed, my sharp wit, my muse, my curiosity.

Nothing is worth that. I would rather be dead. I dropped it after two days or so.

I am seeing an unknown psychiatrist next month, and I will have to go through the same horrible routine of telling him that I will escape or suicide rather than be forced to take those devil's drugs. That includes suicide by cop. And I'm totally serious. If they think I'm bluffing, they will have to find out the hard way. Jesus, why do I have to do this? Why don't they get it?

I even had some psycho tell me that taking antipsychotics would prevent brain damage. I was rude to him.

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MrOmega wrote:Guy... look into neuroplasticity.

I'm not sure I that trust any advice coming from Pol Pot.

I always recover when I get off anitpsychotic, but I am in denial about what I truly lost, don't know what to expect when getting off haloperidole eventually, bbut I am on a CTO so there is nothing I can do about refusing and being sent to hospital to try to explain that refusing led to numerous recoveries......Its an iatrogenic illness to be precise, those doctors really do destroy peoples lives but there favourits who fully bow to their authority and mgic sorcery to get people moving forward in life, somehow many people find that can do it on the drugs, I don't see how this is possible, I have lost my mind I have no thoughts or feelings and no way to truly express what damage is done because of the relativity involved , my mind is on the other extreme, I need to be out of it to explain properlly what the adverse effects of the "medications" are...this is just their delusion that this bbe medication, its chemical lobotomy dopamine pathways are shut down and peole get ill from it, just that this illness means delusions and hallucinations not as easily manifest, I only found it made things worse on the astral times I smoked pot until I found meditation...a lot of peopple could learn a thing or too if they learnt it to overcome all adversities they face and take on warriorship and self discipline and keen obbservation of thoughts and emptying the head with breath work...now my head is always empty and I don't get with my old coping mechanisms and polishing of integrity, I am karmically bad in this state but that karma is theirs and they will suffer for it eventually to the quacks....I am setting my lot up with torture, tried to spread a little ET thing accross the world by dragging their sorry arses up for treatmetn, they have to read these books to ever get out, but they can't tolerate the divine truth in the pages, they are seriously disturbed individual suffering from grandeur delusions preoccupation with mental illness diagnosis's and their medications, they have delusions about the medications as it actually brings on an iatrogenic illness with deprivation of dopamine, that produces symptoms and negative symptoms like anhedonia but the quacks are so deluded that they just say you are paranoid if blaming the medication, its part of the illness they say.