how long do you have to be on anti psycotic medication for?

I haven't been on mine.

All of my meds were miserable failures. None ever did anything except shut my thoughts down quite a bit, and yet I continued to act like myself. I guess the placebo effect didn't work for me, maybe I was struggling against it too hard.

Now I don't take any. I could no longer afford it, and it wasn't helping anyway, so I dropped going to my therapist. And I dropped my meds. My therapist and doctor have not heard from me in months, and they haven't called, so I suppose they don't care as long as I pay the debt I owe...the only contact I've received is my bill. xD I should have known.

Anti-psychotics are poison.

I was told I had schizophrenia (in the end it was NPD) and was put on these meds, olzanphine I think? Regardless, utter poison. Made me not able to think, extremely aggressive, emotionally unstable and sometimes made me feel stupid, not to mention the whole ###$ feeling.

I'd advise you to get of that $#%^, its been proven anti-psychotics over long periods (e.g. 2-3yrs) causes irreversible brain damage.

I agree.

I have been extremely over drugged (not only from anti-psychotics shoved down my throat but from swallowing pills in self harm) during the past few years, and I strongly believe I have brain damage as a result from all that nasty stuff. Only recently have I begun to experience horrible black outs and memory loss, lack of concentration. I really think my overmedication had something to do with this, but I have nothing to prove it, so for now, there's nothing to explain my brain fluctuations.

Rawiyah wrote:I'm diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder w/ psychosis. I'm on Risperdal right now, I was on Seroquel for a while but my psych wants me on the risperdal for a year.

can you still function with this diagnosis?

im on risperidine but i used to be on seroqueal. respiridine i find makes me dizzy and disoriented.

Finite Dreams wrote:Anti-psychotics are poison.

I completely agree.
I often worry that my doctors are trying to poison me by making me take my meds. My psych blatantly told me that if he finds out that I'm not taking my meds he'll have me sectioned. Yet, I feel really terrible on my meds. It does feel like I'm taking poison, and I think my doctors know that.

titanlord1 wrote:can you still function with this diagnosis?

To be honest, I think the psychosis diagnosis is #######4. I can accept BPD diagnosis, (though I still think I don't fit the diagnosis sometimes) but I definitely think the psychosis is wrong.

I think I like risperdal better than seroquel. Seroquel made me feel groggy and like a zombie. On risperdal I dont feel as tired, but I still don't like the way I feel on it. Honestly, I don't even know why I'm on the meds.

Rawiyah wrote:

Finite Dreams wrote:Anti-psychotics are poison.

My psych blatantly told me that if he finds out that I'm not taking my meds he'll have me sectioned.

Getting off anti psychotics (zyprexa) is part of my story. The withdrawal reactions were so bad I ended up driving myself to the hospital and getting sectioned anyway. Of course there remedy for the withdrawal was offering more of the offending poison or taking a new one (geodon) but this was not the abusive hospital I write about, and I got off the zyprexa by starting ativan, addictive but it worked for the horrible withdrawal and I could feel life on it.

""7.It's your choice. It is important not to stop taking medication before you are ready. But for at least some people, getting off medication, even against a prescriber's advice, may be the best solution. For example, long term studies show high rates of recovery among people diagnosed with "schizophrenia" who have gotten off medication successfully. Getting off medication can mean avoiding long term health risks (including risks of early death) associated with many of the medications.
8.Unless a court has taken your rights away, you have the right to decide to terminate any given treatment. Since the mental health system got you started on medications, it also has a responsibility to help you terminate that treatment as safely as possible if that is your choice.""
From http://www.mindfreedom.org/truth/truth-flyer-text/

and mabey check out: www.medicationwithdrawal.com

indifference wrote:Flying I haven't tried but only because I realise they feelings that are irrational feelings/thoughts.

Been though this a few times. But I was extremely stressed back then.

I'm in a stalemate right now that I'm relatively fine, doing nothing and having no structure, but having any commitments (work or social) is enough to get me extremely stressed (and likely semi-psychotic). I used to be able to do shorter freelance jobs, but even those are being too much to handle lately.

Finite Dreams wrote:Anti-psychotics are poison.

I was told I had schizophrenia (in the end it was NPD) and was put on these meds, olzanphine I think? Regardless, utter poison. Made me not able to think, extremely aggressive, emotionally unstable and sometimes made me feel stupid, not to mention the whole ###$ feeling.

I'd advise you to get of that $#%^, its been proven anti-psychotics over long periods (e.g. 2-3yrs) causes irreversible brain damage.

Whoa this is the first time I read someone here talking about olanzapine (I guess I should search for Zyprexa instead). Doesn't sound good... What dosage did you take? I've had three doctors so far tell me they think I should take that stuff. I know I'm still not "functioning properly", but I'm not psychotic or delusional either.

On one hand, these three different specialists tell me it could really help me (price is not a concern, it's subsidized by the government) and one of them told me specifically that only high dosages result in the worst side-effects (according to him I'd only have to watch my weight and the risk of diabetes).

On the other hand... I'm pretty sure they intend me to take it forever (since the problems they want me to treat with it are chronic and I've had them since forever), and I've never read anything encouraging enough about long-term treatments with anti-psychotics to counterbalance all the horrible things people say about them.

One of the doctors mentioned a few other alternatives, but all of them were antipsychotics as well. I've tried two antidepressants so far, and in the end they did more bad than good (sertraline drove me nearly psychotic, and citalopram made me sleep all the time even after several months — both gave me hallucinations during the first weeks).

I've been in therapy for a few months, but it's been more like counseling, it's not really therapy. Even the shrink himself says he doesn't think therapy can do much for me in terms of changing my thought patterns.

I guess if you are psychotic, then that's it, you need meds to calm your brain down. But if you're not... that's not really a decision I'm prepared to make. But I'm definitely not going to simply trust anyone else's opinion on this either. I know doctors are part of a business, even if they're well-intentioned.

What to do?..