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Sky: It is totally normal for someone with psychosis to go off their medicine, or not begin it, because they don't feel/think they need it (anymore.) That is part of the illness, telling you that, and you simply must have medicine for this.

I find that attitude to be completely unacceptable. There are a number of valid and reasonable reasons why individuals who have been prescribed antipsychotic medications might want to not take them -- diabetes, stroke, organ damage, tardive dyskinesia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, brain damage, death, etc.

It's not enough to suggest that an unwillingness to take medication is a direct result of their "illness" when it may well be that the "patient" has a better understanding of the benefits, risks and drawbacks than others may have.