Posted by SLS on November 1, 2012, at 16:59:44
In reply to I'm outta the patient role, posted by Christ_empowered on October 29, 2012, at 20:14:55
Your pendulum swings once more.
Perhaps you can do well without psychiatric treatments. Perhaps not. If not, my concern is that you will end up in "the system" again.
I disagree with your current sentiments regarding psychiatry and the treatments it affords. Drugs work miracles for some people. Historically, you have been a prime example of this. You have also been an example of non-compliance and its sequalae of relapse and decompensation. It seems to me that you do better on Abilify than you do off of it. Perhaps another neuroleptic would better suit you. Latuda or Saphris?
I think you should keep a journal to document your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so as to create a prospective life-chart that you can refer to. This would help you to establish trends and associations that link your mental state with environmental variables, including treatment with psychotropics.
Good luck with whatever you decide.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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