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Originally Posted by costello
That's what's so confusing to me. They act like people will quit their meds if you even talk about it. Like maybe the idea wouldn't have occurred to them without the assistance of an anonymous poster on a forum. But from what I can see, the people who want to quit quit. And the people who don't want to quit keep taking them.
My son, for example, quits his meds every time he gets on his own. And he doesn't read forums. He really doesn't need someone else to suggest he quit. He got that idea all on his own.
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I had this argument with a psychiatrist once. He didn't want me to talk about quitting meds with the other patients because it 'gave everyone ideas'. I told him that all you have to do is
take the meds and experience the (really) horrible side-effects, and you will have the idea to go off meds. What counts is whether or not you do, and if you do what else is to be done.
Plus, people stopping their drugs and then relapsing is like, the biggest issue in treatment of schizophrenia. It would make sense to tell people that if they're going to stop the meds - which almost everyone does at one point or another - what they could be doing instead.
He wasn't stunned by my fantastic logic and sense, however.
