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Old Jul 11, 2012, 03:40 PM
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Sorry you're having a hard time, Willow.

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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23 View Post
Maybe that's part of the reason I want to stop my antipsychotic? Because if the voices come back to berate me for every little thing I do wrong, then somehow my guilt might lessen because I'm being punished in some small way.
It could well be. Certainly an idea worth exploring. I was reading in Mary Boyle's Schizophrenia : a scientific delusion? something to the effect that people tend to feel more depressed when the hallucinations and/or delusions are removed by medication. (I might have that wrong. I'm basing it on my memory.) That would make sense if the hallucinations are filling some kind of emotional need.
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