For the first ten years after my contraction of psychosis, I was anti-psychiatry, unfortunately for me. This was such a lousy predicament for me. If I had just taken the dang pills from the start, maybe I could have moved on with my life instead of getting worse and insisting that the medication is "evil" or "wrong" or that I did not need it because I wasn't sick. But for the past five years I have been 100% medication compliant. That is, I have worked closely with my psychiatrist and have taken my medication as prescribed. And I remember my psychiatrist saying to me, before making a medication reduction, that if I feel worse or more symptomatic, I can increase my dose back up to where it was before I made the reduction. And that's what I did.