Solian took a 6 weeks to calm a mixed episode, then left me emotionally flat and with horrible avolition.

My voices stopped completely as long as I was on neuroleptics, which usually took about 3 days to work for me.
I was on Zyprexa, Invega, and Seroquel at different times.
The clashing, crashing din of bewildering noises around me became tolerable and it took louder noises to startle me.
It changed me outwardly. I slowed down even more, and interacting with other people became more difficult. My body and mind felt lifeless. I experienced more dissociation symptoms than before. I felt like I was watching the world through an out of focus TV set - a kind of virtual reality experience. I felt trapped inside a body that wouldn't function. I became emotionally very flat. I put on weight rapidly. My cognitive functioning (attention span, ability to read, working memory) seemed to worsen, rather than improve.
The sense of arbitrary things around me having unfathomable psychic meaning seemed to lift.

Interestingly, the one drug that seemed to help with the psychic agony I was in (while in hospital) was Ativan, but because it is so addictive and has a short effective life before one develops tolerance to it, I chose not to continue taking it after the first day.