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Originally Posted by wiretwister
my advice is give it a try ... even if it did all the bad things you fear it would take years of use to cause it ... nothing is going to happen over night ...
my advice ( if you want it ) is to just chill and give it a try ... apologize to your pdoc ... calmly explain your reasons ... but give him respect as he explains why he things you need it ... always your decision but I advice you to trust your pdoc ... at least for now ... I really don't think you will have any reason to be so concerned ... we are talking years not days ...
peace to you my friend ... may you find the best answer for you ... Tigger ..
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Thanks, Tigger.
I've been on antipsychotics since September 2015 -- that is, up until recently when I decided to stop taking them. Tried Latuda, Seroquel, Seroquel XR, Abilify, and Rexulti (the one currently prescribed to me). So, I've given a handful of them a try already (and have therefore noticed a decline in my intellectual capacity). Why I even tried them in the first place? well... I was continually brainwashed. My first therapist convinced me to see a psychiatrist and that's how it all got started.
The biggest problem is that I know I don't have any symptoms which need to be "alleviated" by an antipsychotic, so taking an antipsychotic is taking poison to me. I mean, consider someone with diabetes (type 1 or type 2). They take insulin injections to help regulate their blood sugar / insulin levels. But what were to happen if you
didn't have diabetes and gave yourself an insulin injection? You'd poison yourself, of course. Same with antipsychotics when you don't have symptoms. You poison yourself, likely causing irreversible damage. But I do think that antipsychotics in general -- even for people with BP, Sz, and SzA -- are dangerous.
The reason I even "sought" help was that I had severe rage issues that I wanted to be treated -- with therapy, though, not psychiatry.