I had no choice but to stop taking an antipsychotic(seroquel xr) abruptly almost a week ago for reasons I'd prefer not to discuss publicly.
The withdrawals have been
horrible. I've spent the majority of the past few days bedridden because every time I've tried to get up I've been hit with waves of nausea, dizziness, and the like. I've been unable to sleep in spite of being exhausted. When I do sleep, it's only for an hour or two and I've been waking up drenched in sweat and freezing at the same time. Today is the first day I've been able to eat much of anything because I've been so nauseated and even then I still feel really bad.
As for what's going on mentally... oh man. Thoughts of suicide, self harm, etc. New voices I've never heard previously. Yeah. I could go on but I think you get the idea.
It's been ****ing terrible.
So yeah, that's what I have to say about stopping antipsychotics suddenly. I would have just tapered off of this one but I didn't have a choice in the matter unfortunately.
As far as taking them as needed, I don't really know... I don't remember how that's affected me. It's all a blur in my head now.
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been effed over a lot by tons of psychiatrists
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me too.
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probly my stopping/starting for years for diff reasons has messed me up for good in many ways.
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I can relate.
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i wanna talk to minorities. or i wanna talk to low income. or i wanna talk to people on disability. or i wanna talk to people with sz. or i wanna talk to parents with kids with sz. or i wanna talk to people my age or older. i wanna talk to women. i wanna talk to people who have same social difficulties as me. people who dont leave their house. cant leave their leave. or have 0 friends. have friends that wronged them.oh god could my list ever go on ...yes..but it stops too.
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I'm on disability, I have sz, I'm your age, I'm a woman, I have social difficulties, I rarely leave my house, I hardly have any friends... in other words, I can relate to you a lot and if you want to talk you can message me anytime okay?
