So... Where to begin... Close to 10 years ago I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, DID, manic depression, bipolar, and a few others I don't believe I have. Basically to sum it up I have had many doctors and those many doctors loved to push meds in my mouth and names on my profile. At one point I was up to 32 pill capsules a day, mind you I was a teenager while this was happening.
While being hospitalized the doctor there decided it was a good idea to put all of his patients on Lithium and Seroquel. Not taking into account my DID. When the lithium didn't work to begin with he upped my dose. I got up to 1,300mg of Lithium nightly as well as 75mg Seroquil, tranquelizers, meed stabelizers, they even had to put me on blood pressure medicing to counteract one of the side effects of the medicines.
I stopped taking Lithium when it started to make my head scab up. My hair was falling out in chunks accompanied with blood. I stopped all meds instantly.
A little over a year ago I started to have another meltdown. My t put me back on the 1,350mg lithium and 75mg seroquel (gave me the option meds or hospital). I didn't realize when I was a teenager all of the effects that those meds gave me.
They made everything worse. As far as my DID and schizophrenia went. I saw things more vividly and more frequently, I dissociated and lost self control many times. I would have the out of body experience frequently (my docs at the teenage time wrote it off as "migraines") and made me feel like I went crazy while I was on them. I stopped seeing a t when I moved from my ex and haven't taken the meds since. My thing is though, I have been recovering on my own this past year and have made it far with a lot. Even with my DID. My old T that put me on the meds did it to intentionally drive me crazy, to drive my alters to the open.

I'm just curious if I should try this again or if the combo is not as good at the pdocs have been saying. Yo7u would think meds are supposed to make someone feel less crazy. Has anyone else had a similar experience to Lithium or seroquel? I don't know if it was just in my head and not at all the reaction to the meds or if it was the meds that were causing the effects, sorry for such a long post to get to that question. Thank you for any replies!!!