I've never been on Antipsychotics, but I've been tried on antidepressants a LOT over the years. I have refused them for the last 15 years though. SSRI's were awful - I react really badly, and from the very first tablet I start hallucinating. Its awful, I've never made it longer than a week on them as I just can't function on them at all. The Doctors never believe how badly I react to them - always tell me to persevere. They put me on Tricyclics after a while - they didn't make me hallucinate, but my mood got worse and worse. Every time I told the Dr they increased my dose and told me to persevere. After 18 months I was pretty suicidal - I told the Dr's I wanted to come off the tablets - i KNEW they were making me worse. She shouted at me and told me I should stay on them. I ignored her, and came off them - and within two weeks I was improving massively and never looked back. I will never touch those things again.

I take diazepam occasionally when I really need a good nights sleep. I can't take it too often though, as more than once in a while and that sends me crazy too! So long as I don't take more than once a month or so, its like a dream come true for getting some sleep and relaxing painfully tense muscles.