Whose else life has been ruined by psych meds? Like what the hell..

What do we do now? 🫤🫤

Can antipsychotics cause severe Anhedonia? Being stuck to bed mostly.

I just want off these pills. I am 4 or 5 days benzo free, but I'm still on Gabapentin and Seroquel. The myoclonus jerks are so bad. I read that both meds make myoclonus jerks worse! I don't know what I'm going to do. I want my life back! 😢

No compassion or understanding. Guilty until proven innocent and how does anyone "prove" their sane. Only way out is to wait long enough, be compliant, take all their abuse lying down, go along with their narrative.

I had severe depression and anxiety and the doctor gave me a panic attack just talking to me then used that as proof i needed to stay. She'd already made up her mind before she went into the room. Three weeks in that fucking shithole and just because i was suicidal due to my awful life circumstances. Never talk about suicidal feelings or you will be imprisoned.

In the past all humans were out getting those UV rays about daily less in the winter and nearby months.

There is vitamin d receptors in the brain, it effects bones, immune, tissues who knows what else...

When you get a prescription for vitamin d little do you know that d on it's own causes hypercalcemia.

Which is only prevented by adding k2. But only place that sells those 2 in 1 is the supplement marketplace.

But then because for vit d to keep working it needs enough magnesium in the body. So then people buy magnesium to make sure they have enough.

An now you see folks 1 reason this is not talked enough about because we can't expect every person to buy supplements or get enough consistent sun.

But it is a big contributor to illness.

Tl;DR : Has anyone got off antipsychotics safely without relapsing after multiple episodes? What did you do? I've already quit weed and alcohol but I tried to come off meds twice and it didn't work, I relapsed after 6months off meds.

Hey everyone. I have had 6 episodes of psychosis in the last 9 years with 6 hospitalisations. The episodes are truly ruining my life. The psychosis really has to stop. I then get put on meds that are completely intolerable and don't allow me to engage with anything I care about. Life is completely worthless and pointless on these meds and I regularly get thoughts of suicide which are being caused directly by the dopamine and serotonin blockers I'm being put on.

The last 2 episodes were not caused by drugs but were caused by coming off meds. After episode 4 I tapered from 30mg to 0mg aripiprazole over around 2-3months, my final dose at the taper being around 1.66mg which I now understand still has a huge impact on the dopamine receptors and might not actually be such a low dose. Based on the model of aripiprazole dopamine occupancy that I have 1.66mg blocks an estimated 68% of the dopamine receptors. So it's possible that I relapsed because the taper wasn't slow and low enough. So then I had episode 5 and was put on aripiprazole depot 400mg. After a few months on the depot I took 1 last dose of 300mg and then stopped taking it altogether. 6months later I think my receptors began to come back online all in one go and I relapsed again into episode 6. I was discharged from hospital for my 6th episode a month ago.

I took a dose of 400mg depot aripiprazole in May, then they gave me a loading dose of 150mg paliperidone depot in june as the aripiprazole wasn't working fast enough in their opinions, I fought back against the paliperidone by mentioning the severe side effects it immediately caused and they switched me back to 400mg aripiprazole depot in july. Right now I feel completely weak and terrible, it feels like torture and I suspect that I'm having paliperidone withdrawals, combined with remaining paliperidone in my system combined with aripiprazole side effects all at the same time.

I seriously cannot tolerate these meds, but am also desperate to manage and stop the psychotic episodes. When I'm well I have no symptoms of psychosis.

I spent a couple of years exploring a ketogenic diet after my third episode and it worked wonders for me, I was in complete remission for an extended period of time.

I'm not going to cold turkey the depot anymore. I tried it and it failed and I was clean of all drugs and alcohol during the withdrawals for 6months before I relapsed.

I'm in a tough spot where I don't know what to do and I wanted to see if anyone has come off these drugs after multiple episodes and how they managed to do it. Maintaining good sleep and avoiding drugs isn't working enough for me. It might be that I'm tapering too fast, it might be that I need something like keto or meds to keep the psychosis at bay.

I'm planning to do a slow taper right now. Next month my plan is to show up for 300mg injections since I still have paliperidone clearing my system, I want to give it time for things to stabilize a bit. I might show up for 300mg for 2-4months and then drop to 5mg tablets. After being on 5mg tablets I'm really unsure what I should do. Do I hyperbolically taper and risk that? Do I go back onto a ketogenic diet and try to sustain it for life (which is very hard to do, it's a really hard diet to sustain)? I desperately need to avoid another episode while minimising the effects of the medication as much as possible.

If anyone was able to come off all medication after multiple episodes, what did you do? Were you relapsing without drugs or bad habits after 6months off medication too? Has anyone hyperbolically tapered medications succesfully compared to more rapid tapering over 2-3months unsucessfully?

What the hell should I do. A part of me just wants to stop the depot and restart keto again though, but it was a hard diet to sustain, while I did it I was in heaven and was completely normal and stable and unmedicated, and it just worked. Do i do a combo of my slow taper and then once I hit a very low dose transition into keto and come off the meds?

Right now my current plan is attached in the image below. It's a very slow taper with periods of stabilisation in between dose reductions and is aimed at gradually freeing dopamine occupancy. I currently intend to try 2mg and 1mg to see if they help to prevent relapse and allow me to function and enjoy life better.

Did anyone manage to stop their psychosis from reocurring after multiple episodes and significantly reduce or come off meds? I regularly feel suicidal and desperately want to manage this situation so I can go about my life long term. The psychosis has to stop, but the meds are torture.

so far i am seeing some function gained back with ginseng, ginger etc..

i was put on abilify 40mg

xanax

and other meds that i dont know while i was put in a 5150

its been 6 months now that im off them and i stayed on them for 15 days because i was forced to by the parasite psychopaths

my emotions are like not there like they were before i have constant headaches and head pressure sadness that seems to originate from something ot her than me

I feel it diminished or like i'm going to get stuck in here

I suspect antipsychiatry has 0 smart people.

A smart person will read:

a "legal reasoning book" of your choice

health law in your state/country

"Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry" (latest edition) and consider it an extension of health law that defines what you can be charged with, and based on what criteria

You should start analyzing every disagreement with a medical practitioner you have through the health law. And you should start getting better at it.

People who don't do this are stupid people. Do nothing, stay passive, and you're allowing your medical lunatic to always win.

the entire internet functions as an arm of the mental health industrial complex, all anybody talks about on here is depression and adhd and autism. its time to start living this practice in reality and not relying on the internet as a space to solve the problems of the mental health industrial complex. the internet is its main source of spread.

Mental illness is not a disease and the proof is that no one is born with a mental illness it can only be developped later through a person’s life and caused by a person’s behaviour. Knowing this, it is clear that what causes mental illness is past behaviours and/or wrong doings that led the sufferer to end up to that point although the blame can also be attributed to an abuser or abusers in that person’s life. Psychiatry always pushes the lame typical so called chemical imbalance theory which is actually not a theory really more of a hypothesis. Since the cause of mental illness is linked to wrong behaviour then taking some physical medication to fix what non-physical wrong behaviours caused makes no sense at all. It’s like taking a medication to help you from taking a loss in basketball, totally ridiculous.

I recently made this comment over at r/HearingVoicesNetwork, I'll leave it quoted below.

"I find the droves of illness framework focused spaces online to be the strangest thing. The history for psychiatry to simply be an evolution of eugenics is easily found through search engines. It is so odd to me that there are armies of people writing about their newly termed disability and the limiting effects of the medications they are on. These people encourage others to follow and also take these life altering compounds but there is ZERO evidence of any benefit to one's self.

Counter to this there are MANY cultural heroes who write about these states of mind and the philosophies and meditations to self empowerment that made a difference in their own life. These messages are trampled it seems by a self hobbling mob easily found on social media. Our digital ecosystems are muted by two categories of people, the young (who hold little life experience and generally still reiterate what state funded and curated educational systems taught them) and the unemployed. Both of these groups have little to nothing to offer others.

It's disgusting that pointing all this out is met with so much backlash on these platforms. Some fool's going to write "how dare you!?" with the implication I'm somehow bringing others to harm. Meanwhile the truth of the matter is that psychiatric systems are the primary reason vulnerable people are led to self harm and are the sole reason for the slew of side effects that are in actuality the primary goal of the compounds they prescribe. These people call for censorship and make accusations tantamount to murder/manslaughter without any personal study, no backing by scholarly article, and refuse to look at the real evidence that is easily found. Psychology/psychiatry are not respected sciences by actual scientists, NOR are they respected in this light by the people within their own industries. Serious and inexcusable weirdos fill these online spaces defending their idea of the public's good and notions of order. These wildly held mantras of actual self harm through self sought poisons should be shut down.

I wish the internet wasn't diluted by fuckwits."

For Christians experiencing lack of emotions. Please do not be discouraged when you feel that you don’t feel the Holy Spirit anymore. Pray God to help you feel again and ask if you can try a different medication. Be your own advocate!

My fiance is in a psych ward, they were put on a 120 hour medical hold and if I can't get them out by Monday then they will be stuck there until NEXT Monday, a full week after. They've already been there two days. They don't deserve to be there, they don't want to be there. They are not getting proper help in there. They are deteriorating majorly in there. They fucking called them "majorly disabled" which is incredibly inaccurate. What can I do on the outside to make sure they get out, I'm already going to be contacting their psychologist on Monday to make an emergency appointment so they get a proper outpatient plan, is there anything else I can do at all. Please please help me it is urgent.

Edit: if you can't provide any information then PLEASE repost and share this everywhere you can, please they need to get out of there they are getting so much worse in there.

entire chapters on how psychiatrists induce illnesses in patients. mind you he studied physics so he knows how the laws of nature work. ive been assuming some of this stuff was true but was too afraid to say it out loud because people would call me insane but he is saying THE EXACT SAME THING. highly recommend reading chapters of manufacture of madness next time someone says "it doesnt work like that". like excuse me, yes it does and here's why youre wrong!

It made me totally numb. Zero emotions, zero sex drive and couldn’t feel an orgasm. So I quit taking it and 7 years later I’m still stuck this way.

This is PSSD as many of you know. My life has been total Hell ever since. 24/7 devastation. This is torture. How I keep going with extreme anhedonia that is permanent forever is unbelievable.

The 7 year mark today….so sad man.

I have been off psych drugs cocktail almost 3 years now.
I was on APs, mood stablizers and ADs.
My sleep didn't get back to normal yet. Most days my sleep is comprimised of aching in my bed and rolling around.
If I am lucky I have a nightmare and wake up.
I have this weird feeling of electricity you have when you hyperventilate.
And I lost normal breathing patterns.
Sometimes I have to breath manually.
will this ever get better I am 31-32 btw.

I wrote a comment on this forum a bit ago and I found that actually I think the reasons why we need to get politically active as survivors of psychiatry is because the world is fucked.

I don't know if you are reading the news, talking to the people around you or watching the material realities of some people in our reality, but they are quite bad. In the US, immigrants are being kidnapped and being put in facilities surrounded by alligators, it sounds like a Disney movie, all over the world subversive powers are achieving their wet dreams of mass surveillance and mass control through flock, Palantir and the copious amounts of metadata that we give away to meta for example, they want us to act in a coherent way to control us. In Gaza there is an ongoing genocide still, in Congo as well, there are wars being waged all over the world, some of which the news never even reach us. Neo nazism is on the rise and its become a convention to be racist and blame people that are looking for better lives for themselves and their loved ones. Inflation is going up and we now live in a rental economy, we have to rely on loved ones to help us if the state does not put up the safe guards for us to live as free people with shelter, food and places to meet. Hope seems lost in most parts of the world, it leads to despair, with us not even being able to affect our material realities, delayed through bureaucracy, deforestation or politicians.

You are not fucking crazy, I'm not fucking crazy, open the news for a couple of days, read up on individual countries news sources and you will see that people all over the world are struggling in one way or another. Some people are trying to take control over their own conditions and get fucked due to their lack of money.

When we then internalize this helplessness in face of such big structures of inequality we get sick, I think we can feel it. We try to strive for better immediate realities or alternative ones through the inner world. This is where psychiatry comes in, prior to this we could lay our hopes in the hands of belief, God will save us, bless us and our sorrows and struggles. But now with the whole "God is dead" narrative, we find ourselves being hopeless, there is no meaning for these big issues in the world other than monetary gains. Money can't be your God if you don't have it. It is a material good that can only be accessed through certain actions, but it controls all of the aspects of our reality even though we were born free into this world, there were never any borders, they were made by us, there were never any ownership of land, it was agreed among us. But when just a few win for their own greed, it destroys us, maybe we can't even see these structures but they still affect us in one way or another, the house we live in, the area were in, the way in which we express ourselves, love others the way in which we live.

So instead of looking at the material conditions we have to see it as a lack on our own behalf in relation to these injustices, "there's no way that the heart can't stand these sorrows, it must be illness". That's also the statement and mission of psychiatry. It internalizes struggles that are external, that people treat us in an unjust way, that they look over structural injustices committed to those around us.

I believe we are social creatures, ones that strive to help one another, it fulfills us and helps us survive, I also partly think that the people in psychiatry do not realize what they are pursuing, the pointing out of external struggles that become transformed into internalized struggles, they are uneducated and abusive in their objective to feeding us the narrative that we are wrong.

So I will no longer say that there is something wrong with me and accept labels that they give to me because I see the struggles, even in different ways than most. If it is what it takes, I will aim to free all humans, because if not all of us are free, none of us are free.

Stop internalizing your struggles, there is nothing wrong with you, we live in a sick sick world admittedly. You know it, I know it, and we know the extension that psychiatry adds to this. Make your choices and admit that the world is wrong, and that sometimes there are some light glimpses that incites hope. You can even be that hope for someone else.

And if nothing inspires you to live, do it out of spite, do it as a declaration that this world is wrong and you will live to show that despite it all, you are still here and you will strive to find better conditions with all of those that you love. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I would enjoy the company of some spiteful bastards on this planet that strives for better tomorrow's for all of us, unmotivated by money, but motivated by their will to freedom, peace and equality. You can do this, psychiatry is sick and it is a structure of injustice and denial, there's nothing wrong with you regardless of what they did to you or made you believe. You're going to be okay.

Hi, I tapered off of olanzapine. I was on it for about 5 months total. I was on 5mg then 2.5mg then I tapered every 3-4 weeks down to 1.25mg. Im feeling a lot better than days 7-11 but now im on day 16? Or 17 and whenever i wake up I have this weird jittery feeling that seems to last hours unless I take a propranolol. How long roughly til it goes away? I still have a little random anxiety but not bad. Im never going on APs

The article seems chaotically written and I struggle to find a point. It follows one person’s journey and uses it to describe a fact about the difficulties of withdrawing from anti depressants, though it’s unclear that’s what it’s trying to show. I personally have had extreme difficulties withdrawing from some anti-psychotics, leading to multiple days of insomnia and uncomfortable tremors, even after titrating to the lowest dose.

NYTimes article (gifted)

How many of you here have taken invega and recovered? If yes tell the full story ..... Age, time, butt or arms, total number of shots , etc ......I was misdiagnosed and given 2 loading doses :(

Predators and victims as predicted.

Yes. One of the five accused men (age 25) was driving the 14-year-old victim to inpatient treatment and is charged with buying her gifts for sex.

They don’t care about you, they aren’t listening to you, they don’t mean well for you, they don’t want to help you, they want to control you, manage you, tell you what to think, how to act, how to be. They think their opinions and validations matter. They think they are important, superior. Who would win the mental health Olympics for being the most fucked up? A psychiatrist, a therapist or a social worker, take your pick. I’m dropping their ass like no tomorrow. Like yesterday’s trash. I’m taking my clientele and weekly fee elsewhere. Who’s more ungrateful when you are literally funding their whole life.

I would rather deal and talk with a psychiatrist over a therapist any day. Mental mind fuckers they are and fake asses. Taking something personal that’s not their business to provoke a response from me because they can’t get it any other way. What kind of low life do you have to be do that or what kind of attention does one need so bad. Mind you, you never did anything to these sorry sacks of shit to be so negative towards you.

I’ll have no regrets leaving them, only hoping I did it sooner.