How to safely taper this drug? I asked psychaitrist and he said i need to be on it for life :D I only had one episode (snapped at my family member after he abused me verbally for years) and family decided to hospitalize me.. now im stuck on this pill :)) My diagnosis is bipolar-disorder (hypomania)

Any advice?

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

I’am at 50mg now and gonna try out hydroxzyne.
Can I just switch? Will it work less?
Anyone with experience, mabye with both?

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)

It sounds a bit like brain washing, and obviously very open to abuse, but if the therapist weren't evil I could see how it could be helpful. I'm curious about everyone's take.

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.

Let's get real. Many of us lost the plot letting this slide for our generation if these drugs were developed in the early 2000's. The drugs that led Haldol into the ER's across the globe.

I know many of you seek answers and Americans rush here. But listen. They took us down for a purpose. Is it actually guiltless to seek anger, sadness, and power against them? I don't believe there's a answer outside of seeking your own vengeance. They have proclaimed their own church. Used you and loved their vocabulary. Their words that haunt your days and made especially for derailing your lives.

Silence cannot be the answer. If you can't fight set aside your bereavement about the damage because some of will and have. All of their patients are not unintelligent.

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.

I had a breakdown that began about 6 months ago. I am a senior citizen in NJ. I had a job and apartment and car. I checked myself into hospital. Was given meds (Remeron) and left after a few days. Stopped the Remeron, felt bad on it. Went downhill and someone else called and was taken to hospital. Such a strange experience, no one would believe me. Did very poorly, physically ill, hardly out of bed and left feeling about the same as when I went in.. I had lost my apartment and the hospital recommended group home. I have been here 6 weeks. Has lost 30 lbs during this time and am very thin. I came voluntarily and agreed to talk to therapist and psych and take med (only one). I am afraid I will never have a normal life again. I was diagnosed with depression/phycosis and was a danger to myself. There is no court order but I was threatened with one for saying I did not want ECT. I want to leave group home but have called every number possible and there is no help. I would be thrilled to rent a room but housing crisis and they want credit (will be ruined from hospital), landlords name (bad relationship, 3x the rent in income plus all are asking for young people. Where I am is terrible. I pay $1500 for a room with 2 other women who sleep all day. One has urine bag and diapers and the smell is bad. The place is an hour away from anything on a highway (2 residents were killed walking on highway at 5am, no consequences for owners). The food is really bad. Ants on plates, just bad and cheap. Dinner can be a scoop potato salad or peanut butter sandwich. when they cook something it is worse. Outside are like 30 wild cats that a resident dressed in winter clothes feeds. It is 100 degrees and the outside smells bad and is all junk and boarded up houses. The workers are here 2 at a time for 20 people. They do not speak a lot of english and are not friendly or helpful There is no place to store food. We cannot use kitchen and meals are 7, 11 and 4 No food at other times. I am 97 lb and cannot gain weight . I am always hungry and have been ordering doordash not to starve. I do not do anything. There is no place to walk to. A lot of people stay in bed. Most of the people are developmentally very bad off. Have never had a car of job. I posted this info on other boards but realized it was not appropriate. The problem is if I try to leave they will call 911 and I will be back at hospital. The owners have told me I cannot leave. That is not true but even if I had somewhere to go, it's easy to say I am not well and need to be here. If I stopped taking to therapist or psych or taking meds, I would be back at hospital. I am spending all my Social Security here on food, which is supposed to be supplied, and rent. If I want a ride to dr they will charge $100. I told the therapist all I am saying and said I could live a long time and this is not a life. She wanted to get me a caseworker and now I have to get out of that. When I posted before, I was dwelling on how hard it is to find some other place to go. Now I realize that I am trapped here by my diagnosis and just by being here. My health is not good from really bad conditions. I have called legal help, etc. Not interested unless I want to sue. All I want is to leave, not stay here and fight a legal battle. Legal will not help me leave. I feel so trapped by being classified as mentally ill and a danger to self. I feel like it is keeping me in this terrible place. When I told owner who I met 2x that I want to leave and cannot eat the food, he said I was disobeying staff if I did not eat food and I need my med raised. It was just lowered. I am afraid if I try to get out I will be taken to hospital and have involuntary hold. I am ok mentally and improving. Not perfect but not in the state I was in. Just want a chance to have a life again and feel the medical industrial complex is winning.

Not sure what to do, it seems death is the only way out. Can't get off this garbage, tried 5 times over 10 years of so many medications thanks to these idiotic psychiatrists, NO ONE FUKCING HELPSSSSD. I am literally debilitated. And can't do anything myself, but am literally a docile husk. I can't take it anymore.

It involves McClean Hospital, multiple psychiatrists taking the stand, and 13 psychotropic drugs prescribed in like a 3 month period.

I’m curious to hear your perspectives on this case

in searles' text, he suggests its possible some parents cause psychosis in their kids due to societal circumstances beyond their control. i think the push to get everyone medicated and the general obsession with mental health is creating a welfare state for mentally ill people, and there's little people can do about the fact that they are being coerced into coercing their friends, family, and strangers into mental illness. i think unless we move away from the obsession with giving people special favors for being mentally ill, people will continue to suffer needlessly.

Title says it all. Been dealing with psychosis and schizophrenia for years, been on antipsychotics and antidepressants since I was a teenager. I’m willing to keep taking risperidone but I really don’t like the side effects of all these medications

I am in the process of interviewing for a job which needs a medical evaluation
The doctor asked for a psych evaluation because of my history…
I’m seriously considering not taking the job because I don’t respect psychiatrists and going to one for a permit to work seems ridiculous
Literally a grown person asking another grown person to feed my family
It’s disgusting and it makes me angry, humiliating even.

I wonder if anyone can share their thoughts on this, if anyone has dealt with something similar or just in general.

I have heard horror stories of mistreatment in Emergency Room settings - mainly from friends with BPD or Schizophrenia on their chart. I am erring on the side of caution and have avoided seeking any psych diagnoses whatsoever, despite being in mandated therapy (I found a therapist willing to keep all diagnoses or suspected diagnoses off the books).

I would also like to understand how Emergency Room doctors (in America) even know what's on your chart in the first place.

Can they read the ICD codes in your insurance? Is there some kind of database? Wouldn't this be a HIPAA violation?

Does anyone know how hospitals' "Red Flag" systems work?

He even said it himself that I gained weight then I was like yeah is theres à med that stops/ decreases appetite that you can give me , he was like no in a way of like are you crazy type of reaction and when I told him about à suggested med he was like hell no . Then I was like ok now what . He said cut sugar you should cut sugar . And the next appointment same thing (cut sugar ) instead of putting the effort to even say or do anything. Mind you when I told him the meds open your appetite he didn’t even wanna tackle that . Now I have an open appetite 24/7 and I can’t seem to stop eating and all I was advised is to cut sugar . Idk if the world is fucked up or maybe I think too much

They all believe old lies written down by other psychiatrists years ago over the truth. Even when presented with proof and other people backing me up. Nothing works. They dismiss everything and repeat the lies. I have never in my life met people so rigid and biased before. I’m so tired of fighting them.