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Originally Posted by zippity-dooda
oh yeah. Seroquel is for sure a xhit drug. it almost killed me. with some help from the doctor. take my word for it. i dont have any insurance but even if i did i dont want to take any more of these drugs. i feel like a zombie with a potato brain. i hope ti find someone else on the forum that experienced this ? but i doubt anybody is still alive to talk about it ?
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i hear ya. my long term goal is a slow taper off abilify and on to...well, my brain -without- a major tranq. imagine that...
there's a lot of psychiatric survivors flying under the radar at outpatient clinics. sometimes, moving or getting married or...something...helps provide an escape from the stigma, if not...well...the brain damage.
don't give up hope though! i know that sounds cheesy and lame. i had tardive dyskinesia, a kind of odd variant that involved tics that got a lot worse under stress (facial tics), not the typical chewing movements. i was also 110% burned out, largely thanks to psychiatry. and now...
i am one of the psych survivors labeled by the mental health industry as a story of recovery, etc. the 'experts' always get to silence the 'patient' and tell his or her story, unless we/they speak in the stoopid dsm code language.
i have an easier run of things than many psych survivors. even going by the mostly useless IQ scale, my intelligence is back in action. there's more hope for you and other psychiatric casualties than you might think...
'where there's life, there's hope'