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Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds?
#10310549 - 05/08/09 10:28 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't understand how taking a pill could be that bad. What is unpleasant about it? It isn't like its a major lifestyle change that requires much self discipline. This is just how I see it. I'm sure there are some medicated folks here who could shed some light on the matter.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310564 - 05/08/09 10:33 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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major lifestyle change?
that's exactly what it is is lol.
if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
-------------------- koods said: Young male going by the name "Bassfreak" entered Worcester General complaining of a sharp pain in his buttock region after attending EDM event. Attending physician considered a possible diagnosis of acute rave anus, but upon further investigation it was determined there was nothing cute about patient's anus. Life-long trip report
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: pfxtc]
#10310576 - 05/08/09 10:35 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Simple, the pills are devices used by the aliens as mind-control devices in conjunction with the lizard people to ensure the tap water is drugged with sedatives to keep the people from knowing the truth!
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310585 - 05/08/09 10:36 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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exactly.
lol
it's crazy that people walk around believing shit like that.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310587 - 05/08/09 10:37 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cause he tells me not too...
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310588 - 05/08/09 10:37 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Side effects are a big reason. The new meds are better at this.
I suppose that if they feel better they think they don't need them.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310592 - 05/08/09 10:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Because the side effects are fucking terrible...
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: pfxtc]
#10310593 - 05/08/09 10:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
I don't think it changes this quickly.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: mad_cow]
#10310598 - 05/08/09 10:40 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Schizophrenics probably just realize once they're on the meds that they don't work either. At that point they find no reason and think they might as well not bother.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: pfxtc]
#10310599 - 05/08/09 10:41 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: major lifestyle change?
that's exactly what it is is lol.
if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
taking a pill in itself does not require strict discipline...can you raise your fingers to your mouth once a day?
thanks for the speculation
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310601 - 05/08/09 10:41 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Have you ever taken schizophrenic meds?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310606 - 05/08/09 10:42 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: major lifestyle change?
that's exactly what it is is lol.
if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
taking a pill in itself does not require strict discipline...can you raise your fingers to your mouth once a day?
thanks for the speculation
Dude everything said here is speculative, I'm pretty sure none of us have schizophrenia.
Although if I did... I wouldn't know. Oh shit, here I go.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310607 - 05/08/09 10:42 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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bradley said:
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pfxtc said: major lifestyle change?
that's exactly what it is is lol.
if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
taking a pill in itself does not require strict discipline...can you raise your fingers to your mouth once a day?
thanks for the speculation
why make this thread in the first place if you know everything already asshole?
-------------------- koods said: Young male going by the name "Bassfreak" entered Worcester General complaining of a sharp pain in his buttock region after attending EDM event. Attending physician considered a possible diagnosis of acute rave anus, but upon further investigation it was determined there was nothing cute about patient's anus. Life-long trip report
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: mad_cow]
#10310609 - 05/08/09 10:43 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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mad_cow said: Side effects are a big reason. The new meds are better at this.
I suppose that if they feel better they think they don't need them.
I see. I didn't know side effects were a big problem; I thought there might be a little benzo-like dumbing effect, but I didn't realize they caused anything hard to deal with.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310614 - 05/08/09 10:44 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I was given abilify for racing thoughts. It didn't have much in the way of side effects you can feel. It has weight gain, can fuck with your cholesterol and blood sugar.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: pfxtc]
#10310615 - 05/08/09 10:44 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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pfxtc said:
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bradley said:
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pfxtc said: major lifestyle change?
that's exactly what it is is lol.
if they miss their pill or they don't feel like taking it right away i'm sure they get overwhelmed with all these thoughts about how evil the pill is, and then it's all down hill from there.
taking a pill in itself does not require strict discipline...can you raise your fingers to your mouth once a day?
thanks for the speculation
why make this thread in the first place if you know everything already asshole?
go to fucking hell man. you're the one who said "i'm sure they..." i was just making an open inquiry
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310623 - 05/08/09 10:46 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Have you ever taken schizophrenic meds?
nope
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310628 - 05/08/09 10:46 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Missing one dose won't bring on evil voices.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: mad_cow]
#10310663 - 05/08/09 10:53 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I was (improperly) diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 15.
They tried out 3 or 4 different meds. They all fucked my shit up hard.
I was just depressed...
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310667 - 05/08/09 10:54 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Do you remember the specific prescription names? I want to look them up if that's ok with you.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310675 - 05/08/09 10:56 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dude everything said here is speculative, I'm pretty sure none of us have schizophrenia.
Right, that would be impossible.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310682 - 05/08/09 10:58 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: I was (improperly) diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 15.
They tried out 3 or 4 different meds. They all fucked my shit up hard.
I was just depressed...
How the fuck would they misdiagnose depression vs schizophrenia?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310693 - 05/08/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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anti-psychotics are not fun...
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: WakeboardrB]
#10310709 - 05/08/09 11:05 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Fuck if I know.. They misdiagnosed me about 5 times.. kept changing it. How can they misdiagnose you ask? Because psychiatry is an infant field and they don't know SHIT about the human brain when they think they do. They just want to pump pills down your throat. Schizophrenia, then Schizoaffective, then Bipolar, then Acute Depression with severe psychotic episodes.. then depression.. Then HEY turns out I was just a normal fucking depressed teenager from a fucked up childhood and the drugs didnt do shit except fuck with my brain chemistry and cause some seriously shitty side effects. Seriously the side effects on some of those drugs are worse than what they are treating...
Wapakz.. Zyprexa is the only one I can remember specifically
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310744 - 05/08/09 11:13 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Wapakz.. Zyprexa is the only one I can remember specifically
Thanks, I'm taking a look as I type this.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310748 - 05/08/09 11:15 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Side effects
As with all neuroleptic drugs, olanzapine can cause tardive dyskinesia and rare, but life-threatening, neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Other recognised side effects may include:
* Aggressiveness * akathisia inability to remain still[5] * dry mouth * dizziness * irritation * sedation * insomnia * urinary retention * orthostatic hypotension * weight gain (90% of users experience weight gain) (see below) * increased appetite * runny nose * low blood pressure * impaired judgment, thinking, and motor skills * impaired spatial orientation * impaired responses to senses * seizure * trouble swallowing * dental problems and discoloration of teeth * missed periods * problems with keeping body temperature regulated * apathy, lack of emotion
I had about 9 out of 10 of those side effects. They SERIOUSLY fucked me up. And that was just with zyprexa. They tried at least 15 different meds during the course of those psych visits over about 2 years. Usually in combination with other meds, which made it even worse.
None of them did shit. Then I cured my depression myself, without them.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10310758 - 05/08/09 11:19 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Lots of times they feel better because of the meds, but think that now that they are ok they dont need to take them anymore. So they develop a cycle of taking meds, feeling better, stopping meds, feeling worse, and so on.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310760 - 05/08/09 11:19 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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impaired responses to senses... apathy, lack of emotion ... impaired spatial orientation... impaired judgment, thinking, and motor skills...
Oh man, it's like they took away everything that makes someone human and sold it in pill form.
Does anyone --doctor or not-- actually know how anti-psychotics work?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Wapakz]
#10310770 - 05/08/09 11:20 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, they turn you into a fucking robot zombie with no capacity for emotion. I was already apathetic as it was. Then magnify that by about a factor of 10.
I seriously have the deepest seated hatred for the entire field of psychiatry. They don't know what the fuck they are doing most of the time. It's just a wonderland for the pharmaceutical pushers to put you on a cocktail of expensive, mind-bending drugs. They only care about $, not your mental health. Most of them anyway.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10310956 - 05/09/09 12:05 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: I was (improperly) diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 15.
They tried out 3 or 4 different meds. They all fucked my shit up hard.
I was just depressed...
Lol maybe you do have schizso.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Etherealfeeling]
#10310961 - 05/09/09 12:07 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Etherealfeeling said: anti-psychotics are not fun...
resperidone doesn't really effect me taht bad. It puts me out at night and that's what the reason they were using them for. I had weight gain but you get that with pills in general, well it's common.
i remember a pill for the racing thoughts. I think it is citolpram. It really lets you just pause your thoughts. That in itself made me trip out and think I was regulated for thoughts...
I havent had any messed up episodes for awhile now. It does come back whenever. I'm not a schizo tho, and whatever symptoms i get it something entirely different.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10311082 - 05/09/09 12:36 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't speak for anyone else on the manner, but *I* for one, don't like taking my meds because I don't like to admit that there's anything wrong with me in the first place (or rather - nothing that I can't handle on my own anyhow) and I see my medication as a cop-out of some sort / and taking em is akin to me giving up on this world, and not even trying to deal with my problems any more
I mean - the symptoms still exist regardless how doped up you get anyway (the meds just make it easier to ignore that little voice in your head) and it's incredibly disempowering to think that you're not capable of ignoring those impulses on your own
'faithfully taking yer meds' (to me anyway) is like giving up on life all together
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10311094 - 05/09/09 12:39 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Side effects
As with all neuroleptic drugs, olanzapine can cause tardive dyskinesia and rare, but life-threatening, neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
Other recognised side effects may include:
* Aggressiveness * akathisia inability to remain still[5] * dry mouth * dizziness * irritation * sedation * insomnia * urinary retention * orthostatic hypotension * weight gain (90% of users experience weight gain) (see below) * increased appetite * runny nose * low blood pressure * impaired judgment, thinking, and motor skills * impaired spatial orientation * impaired responses to senses * seizure * trouble swallowing * dental problems and discoloration of teeth * missed periods * problems with keeping body temperature regulated * apathy, lack of emotion
I had about 9 out of 10 of those side effects. They SERIOUSLY fucked me up. And that was just with zyprexa. They tried at least 15 different meds during the course of those psych visits over about 2 years. Usually in combination with other meds, which made it even worse.
None of them did shit. Then I cured my depression myself, without them.
did zyprexa ever cause you to miss a period?...
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Muppet]
#10311095 - 05/09/09 12:39 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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nevermind the fact that the turn you into a fucken zombie for the most part
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: DieCommie]
#10311359 - 05/09/09 02:42 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Qubit said: Lots of times they feel better because of the meds, but think that now that they are ok they dont need to take them anymore. So they develop a cycle of taking meds, feeling better, stopping meds, feeling worse, and so on.
This is it. I have experience with 2 people who do this, and 1 other who "sort of does this."
I lived with a severe skitz who really lost it when he stopped taking his meds.
He thought the dog was bugged and spying on him, and drew a mindmap all over the walls about how key figures in hollywood were conspiring to do something..
Also threatened me and was going to call the police because he blew shit out of proportion regarding my use of drugs.
He also thought that clothes and random things fell through a portal in his roof and he wondered if there were portals in other houses and why the clothes were being offered to him. (we all knew they were the bags of clothes from old roommates which were stored under the porch.)
Another friend took too much acid in his late teens/early 20's and he's constantly on and off his meds. Sometimes he's functional and balanced and othertimes he's burning books and piling piled of popkorn kernals in weird places, or trying to balance pots on the heads of people watching movies...
Lastly, someone who experienced psychedelic psychosis was put on med's and stopped taking them, and continued using psychedelics and ended up in jail because of arson and attempted arson (and acting batshit crazy in many ways + smashing the sunroof of my car with a shovel...)
(i've written about these incidents here before...)
Skitz's definately think they "level out" with the med's and can maintain it. Then they stop the meds and their chemical imbalance strikes again and everything just goes to shit... Its very common.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: PDU]
#10311434 - 05/09/09 03:25 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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My wife told me that her uncle's been talking to martians lately.
I'd imagine people don't like to take their meds because they don't like to feel like they're broken and need a pill just to be "normal".
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
#10311543 - 05/09/09 04:22 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: DimensionX]
#10311573 - 05/09/09 04:37 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Because they are powerful medications that alter their brain functions?
Would you like not truly being you?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10311641 - 05/09/09 05:19 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I didn't read thread.. but the answer is: side effects. Fucking duh?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
#10311856 - 05/09/09 08:04 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't understand how taking a pill could be that bad.
Here's an idea for you, how about trying mustine chemotherapy? Mechlorethamine, rolls off the tongue nicely, how bad can it be? Well, so bad that nurses dispensing the capsules have to wear rubber gloves to prevent the skin on their fingertips from rotting.
Don't as a druggie assume that all pills are nice.
Me myself, I use an antipsychotic drug, the really big one - Haloperidol (Haldol), and have done so since 1988. My mind is too intense and my past too gruesome. I use it as a major tranquilizer - but in a relatively low dose. I use 2mg, once daily, a few hours before sleep so I won't be awake during the strong part of the effect.
In my youth I had many psychotic episodes. Not schizophrenia, reactive psychotic breaks brought about by extreme stress. Almost anyone who gets overstressed will get depressed. If you get tormented far beyond that point, psychosis is the only way out. I didn't have the kind of psychosis where one rants about CIA microphones in lightbulbs and alien conspiracies. I wasnt overcome by delusion, just completely caved in, exhausted but unable to have a second of rest in my mind. A completely terrorized, hypersensitive, exhausted young teen unable to rest or sleep.
When I was admitted to the psychiatric hospital for youths (where I was to stay 4 years) the psychiatrist said he'd do away with that psychosis right away. 15 mg of Haldol in 3 doses of 5mg. He shouldve fucking be dragged to Nuremberg to be tried there.
I thought, yay! drugs! Its a pill to calm you down right? Something like the benzos I had been given but STRONGER! I was all for it.
I took the first 5mg. Over the course of maybe an hour or so, every single thought in my mind ceased to be. I got completely dead inside. I slumped in a chair where I remained sitting from the early afternoon til bedtime, unable to think, unable to hold conversation.
I got cold, not my skin but inside. Then the shaking started, a tensing of the muscles with rapid tremling of arms and legs - absolutely dead inside and freezing. Not able to think, not able to speak, in a tunnel vision desperately holding on with all I had.
The bastards would give me two more of those before the day was out.
I was dead inside, unable to think or speak, limbs shaking, torso trembling, fingers and toes tensed. I developed dystonia. My neck muscles tensed, and tensed unevenly. My head was forced to look over my left shoulder, and I was unable to move my head any other way. If I wanted to look in front of me I had to move my entire body to look over my shoulder in the direction I needed look. Shaking, shuddering, dead inside, a 14yo kid in completely alien surroundings.
When they got it through to me it was bedtime I zombie-shuffled to what was to become my bed, didnt undress but lay down in the only position the dystonia allowed. They had thrown a fucking Promethazine in the mix and I was knocked the fuck out.
The next day I begged and cried and pleaded to the psychiatrist to please lower my dosage. It was without a doubt at least ten times worse than being psychotic. Psychosis then weas my natural state, Haldol was artificially enforced death. PURE TORTURE. And to think there are pills of that stuff containing 20mg a piece.
Does that answer your question? Its not a "chemical straight jacket", thats what it looks like to the nurses, from the outside. From the inside its more like Chemical Death. A human rights violation in pill form.
Its not a matter of just the hellish side effects, its also a matter of the desired effect. Most antipsychotics lower your Dopamine D2 transmission. Know what that is? Dopamine D2 contains a reward pathway that is what makes EVERY RECREATIONAL DRUG so pleasurable. Its what makes lifes finest moments so pleasurable. And you're knocking that dead with a pill, a pill that also can have hellish side effects.
Currently I use 2mg Haldol and have done so for many years. At that dose level, for a brain that has rewired to work with it, there are very little side effects other than a decrease in the flow of thoughts. As intensity of my mind combined with extreme external and internal stress were the triggers to psychosis, decreasing the intensity of my inner life with a low dose of Haldol in combination with leading a life deliberately as low in stress as it can be had, psychosis is no longer an issue - this at a dose of Haldol where the reward for me outweighs the negative effects.
If you are brought in with a psychotic break (for instance due to a ketamine binge) or if someone is schizophrenic, they will put you on 5-20mg of Haldol and keep you there for the rest of your life.
Can you imagine, having read all this, why people want off the meds?
To get with the times I tried Risperidone (Risperdal) one of them next generation atypical antipsychotics. No Sir, not for me. Theres sedation and restlessness, stuff I dont have with my 2mg Haldol. At my dosage level, the next generation stuff has more side effects plain and simple. Plus, they mess with your ability to trip or get high
They're messing with my dopamine, and it works. Hands off of my serotonin! I dont see a reason to mess with Dopamine AND Serotonin, when just dopamine does the trick for me anyway. All I really need from a med is a decrease in intensity of the mind, fortunately unlike schizophrenics its not the case that I actively have to suppress psychosis.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
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Shroomism said: I seriously have the deepest seated hatred for the entire field of psychiatry. They don't know what the fuck they are doing most of the time. It's just a wonderland for the pharmaceutical pushers to put you on a cocktail of expensive, mind-bending drugs. They only care about $, not your mental health. Most of them anyway.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: DeadPhan]
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Thanks for sharing wiccan. definitely shed some light on the whole situation.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: DeadPhan]
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some people said it, there are two reasons
a) they feel better and think they don't have to take it b) the side effects are bad and they don't want to take it
like someone said, most people that can't stay steady go through cycles of taking and not taking.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: truekimbo2]
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Yeah, great post Wiccan. Although one thing I don't understand is how does the taking of one pill to subdue inner life, and the taking of psychedelics, which by and large seem to intensify inner life, both find their way into the habits of a single individual?
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i remember a pill for the racing thoughts. I think it is citolpram. It really lets you just pause your thoughts. That in itself made me trip out and think I was regulated for thoughts...
That is very interesting. Have you tried combining it with meditation?
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Epigallo]
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how does the taking of one pill to subdue inner life, and the taking of psychedelics, which by and large seem to intensify inner life, both find their way into the habits of a single individual?
A calmer, more steady baseline when sober, with small but significant psychedelic excursions. I'm immensely grateful for the profound healing psychedelics have facilitated in my life. I cleaned up the majority of my traumatic garbage (which had a major role in facilitating psychoses) through sessions of Psychedelic healing. I gained profound insights and worked through a lot of garbage. Haldol on the other hand has made my "sober" state more managable by diminishing intensity - actually helping the psychedelic advances be put to better use.
For me, it works, and has worked for 16 years now.
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Re: Why don't schizophrenics like to take their meds? [Re: Shroomism]
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Shroomism said: Because the side effects are fucking terrible...
Yeah, no duh, isn't it common knowledge that antipsychotics make you feel shitty?
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