Thread: I'm done
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Old Feb 27, 2019, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bluebicycle View Post
I think I'll be fine without an antipsychotic. Nothing has happened since me stopping it. It sedated me a bit, and now thus my sleep is broken since I haven't been taking it, but otherwise, no problems. I doubt anything bad will happen.

I would sometimes go for years off all antipsychotics before I would have another psychotic episode. I got lulled into being overconfident that I would be fine. Even though I had olanzapine to take prn if I started having symptoms, I wasn't able or willing to admit what was going on when my mental state started to deteriorate and then I went off the deep end. In my 11 year history of bipolar this happened about 5 times.
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