Why does God want me on anti-psychotics?

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can we prove the psych meds caused the issue or was it some other condition or illness and the psych meds merely an unrelated attempt at treatment

I have a simpler solution:

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[loramin]

Originally Posted by SorenVC [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You are ridiculous m8. I want to get rid of drugs completely and you want me to try a few more drugs. Doesn't anyone realize how stupid this sounds. Ask me, all this mental illness thing, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, psychosis, ocd, just a bunch of made up nonsense, pseudo-science, so that big pharma can sell their magic pills. I will try to taper it off again it seems. What else can I do. Nothing. And noone's helping me.

Originally Posted by SorenVC [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why don't you at least tell it straight to my face. I am mentally ill, therefore I must take anti-psychotics all my life. Tapering off doesn't work after 12 years although maybe I was tapering fast admittedly.

If your leg got chopped off, would you be bitter that you'd have to wear a bionic leg?

I'd imagine yes. And you should feel the same about having to take drugs for the rest of your life. It sucks: for the rest of your life you'll have to order the drugs, get them from the mailbox, take them, sort them into pill containers when you go on vacation, etc.

But at the same time, you know what sucks even more? Not having a real leg or a bionic one ... or (in our case), losing sanity. Nothing sucks worse than losing your sanity, because you lose yourself, and often completely destroy your life when you do.

If you can swap out the drugs with side effects that suck (like Zyprexa) and get drugs that let you keep your sanity with only mild or no side effects, that's a win in my book. Sure, popping pills for life is an annoyance ... but if you keep getting to be you, surely it's an annoyance you can live with.