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Old Jun 25, 2017, 08:12 AM
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I'm so tempted to stop eating again.

History: overweight, and a few years ago developed eating disorder tendencies with depression and psychosis. Lost a bunch of weight while crazy, then gained control of my life and gained twice as much back.

Over the last year I've lost almost all that weight I regained when I was getting back to being healthy. I'm still working on losing more but it's been slow. I've been losing it healthily, save for a month at the beginning that triggered it.

Over the last few months I've been in a mild psychotic state and I've been taking antipsychotics for a while (on and off) but I think it's making me gain weight.

I can't stand it. I don't want to see the number go up ever again. I hate it I hate it I hate it. I'm tempted to just stop eating again. It would be so easy I need to lose more weight right now.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 10:24 AM
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I feel exactly the same concern. My oxcarbezapine does trigger food obsessions to be worse, without permission, I went cold turkey off all my meds to see what was causing what. Yesterday, I went back to a N.P. to get a new prescrip, and I feel like she didn't listen to my weight concern at all, and prescribed abilify.

I am going to try it for a month, but if I feel it is causing problems, and she won't listen to me, I will go the route of trying to prove it is bad for my physical health, or I will just try to make an apt with someone else.

You are right to be concerned, because some anti psychotics do have that effect.

Look into intermittent fasting! I love it! (When I can be consistent). You would only eat between (for example) 1pm-7pm every day, this gives the body time to really digest. There is more science then that, but I found when I could do it consistently, it helped.

Right now I can't because I am wacko mania, but I am hoping to get regular again soon, if my new meds work.

Good luck to you, and to us all!
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