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Originally Posted by yagalada
i dont want to be on meds either. i went off of the for a while (for a year and 8 months) and now i'm on just a mood stabilizer. i refuse to take anti-psychotics since i dont think being a zombie that deveolps diabetes, heart disease and all the other serious health problems that come along with the meds is a fair trade off for reducing mania.
so, i'm trying lamictal now it hasn't started working yet and probably wont for a while but hopefully it does.
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Yagalada....it depends on which anti-psychotic it is, and the dosage you are taking, in terms of turning or not turning into a zombie with the anti-psychotic. Zyprexa was a killer for me, but I'm finding that a low dosage of abilify doesn't have the zombie effect at all. Is your doc OK with you doing that?