Going off of this, its a shame there seem to only be actual psychiatrists in hospitals around here. My entire community mental health center is just nurse practitioners, which is unfortunate because most patients at my community mental health center are severely mentally ill (if we were higher functioning we'd probably go elsewhere, I wish I had a better way of wording that).
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My NP hasn't done jack for me in the year I've seen her other than hospitalize me when I needed a med change. She put me on vraylar to try and prevent a hospitalization, but that gave me akathisia too and didn't do anything (and I was hospitalized anyways). At least Haldol stops the paranoia/hallucinations/mania. I'll take Haldol over vraylar any day. But there are other options. I think I'm going to try med free for a bit. I'm sick of being poisoned.
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I'm angry that I didn't just agree to take the pill before the injection. That was a bad manic episode and they were giving me IM Haldol 3x a day because nothing else worked. I've tried all the atypicals (except the new new ones that my insurance won't cover) and the only one that worked for more than a year was Clozaril and there's too much red tape for me to navigate and be able to actually get my prescription on time regularly, and boy do the withdrawals suck. Not a fan of the weight gain and sleeping 12-14 hours a day either.

Idk. I'm just venting at this point. Nothing's going to make me feel comfortable until this med is out of my system and I've dealt with the withdrawals.