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Tips and Support for Weaning off a Antipsychotic Medication
Hi,
I'm on an antipsychotic and have been medicated against my will for 6 and a half years. I have had severe psychosis in the past but cannot accept the extremely degrading, low-quality life of gaining more weight every month despite healthy living, and not being able to feel happiness despite having great circumstances, that medication creates for me. It also causes slower cognitive functions. I used to be highly creative, and brilliant, and this is now very difficult to access. I've felt like I've been forced to live the very most poisonous thing I could ever imagine for myself, personally. Maybe people without such a need for emotional depth can be comfortable enough without real emotions. I can't. I feel like the medication probably affects me in an extra painful way, because I'm so poetic and sensitive. I can't feel love, and haven't for the past 6 and a half years. Life is very, very meaningless. I feel like I'm cattle just eating for my one form of entertainment. The medication also causes dementia and brain-shrinkage as you age, and there are studies on that.
I'm wondering if anyone has advice for how I can wean off and go through the withdrawal symptoms that these drugs can cause on an extreme level. I've been researching and reading books on psych-drug withdrawal, written by scientists. Apparently what looks like the illness coming back worse than before, when you go off your meds even gradually, has a lot to do with withdrawal and the long-term dependencies that mess up the brain.
I'm also wondering if anyone knows of any really good supplements or anything natural and powerful that could help lessen the withdrawal and prevent out of control craziness. I'm just starting out on CBD oil. I exercise every day. I do a lot of creative things to help ground myself in who I am (or what little is left of me.) I'm doing a lot of things right to live a healthy, positive lifestyle to support the weaning off journey that might be hellish.
I'm also wondering, my big question, how to find an actual good doctor who has experience with weaning people off. That's kind of the big thing for me is if I can find someone who really knows what they're doing and isn't going to give me a depressing, dehumanizing perspective as my only valid option. Every psychiatrist I've seen, since I was a teenager, has been all medication, for life, no exceptions. I just don't even think that's sane.
If I could find some kind of professional who's maybe not even a doctor perse, but who has experience in weaning people off. I think that would be the main thing to shift things a great deal. If anyone has advice about networking or research, or even possible websites, that would be most helpful.
Thanks for your time, and thanks so much.
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Trust me, I know from experience that your levels are way off. What you need to do is tell them exactly what you told us to a psychiatrist and let them lower them accordingly. Once they get the dosage dialed in right you won't be feeling the way you have described. That's really what is at the core of this. Either the wrong medication or the wrong dosage.
I would NEVER try to wean yourself off of psychiatric medication on your own. You're really asking for trouble and setting yourself up for a major crisis and hospitalization for it if you do. It's a dangerous thing to try and not to be done unless a doctor does it.
If you need to be taken off of a drug let them do it gradually or it will not be successful. None of this can cause dementia or permanently mess up your brain or poison you or else nobody would take them nor would they be prescribed.
Some doctors push medications more than others because they know they do in fact do wonders for the person who is suffering from illness if the dosage is right. You need to bitch about it constantly and keep notes that you share every time you visit and call them constantly if something appears off to stay well.
As far as your personality and creativity goes none of these drugs can alter that. It's still there and your gifts do not decrease. You may be feeling as though they do because you haven't let psychiatrists really treat the issue.
There are no substances especially marijuana or CBD oils that will help your illness in fact they can and do make things worse.
You never mentioned what you were diagnosed with as that's important to know. Medication for life is in fact a good thing and a reality but you need the right one and to stick with it. It may be the only thing that keeps you from a crisis.
Stay away from websites or other people's experiences. Many of them have stories and misleading info from people not experiencing the same thing you are or recommending getting off treatment. They really have no idea what they are doing in doing so.
If you go off pills on your own and don't take them you'll usually wind up in the hospital and right back at step one with them having to solve stuff for you over again and it's usually an even worse ordeal than the first time.
I hope you will consider these things and start pushing back at the psychiatrists and get your medications set up correctly as it can and does make all the difference in the world if they aren't.
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