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Old Oct 31, 2006, 09:21 PM
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Hey there.

Have you ever had therapy with a clinical psychologist? I'm asking because there has been some fairly recent work done on cognitive behaviour therapy for the treatment of voices, delusions, and hallucinations. The outcomes have been pretty good...

I would say that if you do get to through the two years without an episode on the meds (like your doctor suggested) then it might indeed be worth gradually reducing your meds down to zero. I would like to suggest that it might be really helpful to start a course of cognitive behaviour therapy as you taper or maybe even a bit before.

If you have weekly sessions with a clinician then they should be able to keep an eye on you to make sure you aren't having an episode. It might be the case... That if you do start to have an episode... The techniques you learn in therapy might be able to help you manage the symptoms so that you are able to control them without medication. It might be the case that your symptoms never recurr, but I would say that it might be good to plan for a recurrance and to plan for putting things in place so that you may be able to deal with them without medications.

Of course that might not work out and you might have to go back on meds... But it might be worth a shot :-)