I've also decided to see if i can get off my antipsychotic, olanzapine. I've been stable since 2017 without psychosis or mania or hypomania and a few months ago cut back on olanzapine from 2.5 mg to 1.25, which is half a pill. I hadn't noticed any untoward side effects or had problems sleeping so decided to go to 0.625 mg, or 1/4 of a pill. I'll stay on this for a few months and then try to go to zero. At the same time as I cut back on olanzapine I also completely stopped using cannabis after a long, multiyear battle with quitting, so I don't have any obvious trigger for psychosis. If i started having symptoms of psychosis or hypomania, including poor sleep for two nights in a row, I'd not hesitate to immediately start taking olanzapine again. I have a fitbit to monitor my sleep.

I think it dulls me and I'm also prediabetic now even though my weight is fine. Those are my reasons to try to get off it. On the other hand, psychosis is really bad for me because I get paranoid delusions and end up invariably hospitalized, so that's something I definitely want to avoid.

I read that even healthy people can get rebound psychosis if they abruptly stop taking antipsychotics. That's why I'm going very slowly.