How long have you had "schizophrenia"?
How often do you have hallucinations
before the meds? What age were you when
you first had hallucinations?Do you have
problems handling it? Do you think you
will you be a danger to yourself or others
if you go off the meds? Do you think you
can handle it for a month to one year if
it comes back? Is the doctor forcing you
to take medication?I need to know all
those things before I can figure a plan.
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jei
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I Usually Live Alone Posted: 02-22-06 04:28am
After I get well. I would like to live
with people. Where I from, I got 2
roomates waiting me to go back as soon I
got recover.
I got experiance with shrink since 1998.
No matter I got dump by one of them by
2003. I got a new name that I could go
visit.
I will try my best to be more positive.
No more day dreaming. I will never post
or set up a web site again. Nor chat.
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jei
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Would I Be Danger to Myself? Posted: 02-22-06 04:33am
During the sympton I did thinking to hurt
myself. As I got taught the brain with a
trash can. Dump the un-present thinking
into it and never touch the thought as got
delete it.
At the beginning was hard to set up the
imagine of a trash can. Now I could
control.
I don't think the schizophrenia will come
back again. Unless my mother pass away.
I never thought about it :(
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slam
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 100
Posted: 02-22-06 11:55am
jei
wrote:
i will try my best to be more positive.
No more day dreaming. I will never post
or set up a web site again. Nor
chat.
having friends is a good thing while you
recover. Sometimes you want a
distraction, so that what you are doing
doesn't seem like work. Also, posting or
setting up a web site sounds fun and can
relieve being alone. Also daydreaming,
you are in control but I guess you should
hold back a bit for now.
"at the beginning was hard to set up the
imagine of a trash can. Now I could
control. "
if you have problems putting all of it in
the trash can, you need to learn that it
is only your thoughts and don't mix it
with your emotions. Don't care about it.
Ignore it if you can. Once the negative
thoughts go away, put your emotions back.
:)
how to get off meds(for you):
gradual withdrawal is very important. In
your case, I would decrease the dose by
.25mg every two weeks. Eliminate the
morning dose first. So you should be
taking only .25mg in the morning and 1mg
at night. Two weeks later, no morning
dose and 1mg at night. Two weeks later,
only .25mg at night. Two weeks later, no
more medication. However, if you notice
sensations in your brain, like brain
cramps (feels like muscle cramps), you
need to go back on the previous dose a
little longer. Write it down in a journal
so you will remember. You need to know at
what dose you feel the sensation and what
dose you will not feel the sensation. If
1mg stops the sensation, then I think you
can live with the sensations. Go down.
The sensations should decrease over time
but if it gets worse you will probably
need to take the meds longer. Take
precautions if the hallucinations come
back. Try for the next five months to be
very active,don't stay home so much. Do
some jogging, hiking, and get a hobby you
love doing. Fill me in on how you are
doing, maybe I can help if you need some
advice.
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jei
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I Chat to Myself During 2003-2005 Posted: 02-23-06 03:22am
Slam:
my symptom basic I chatted to myself after
the death of my father :(
i thought my friends had been watching.
For real, all in my head. That's the
problem.
Now I only limited with msn group and
these forums.
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jei
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Hard to Have Friend :( Posted: 02-23-06 05:07am
I grow up at costa rica, back to taiwan
for better attention of doctors. People
here were afraid of schiz patient. U
can't find same forum as this at taiwan
internet.
If I remain at costa rica. I won't be
cure so fast. I might be talking to
myself again and with high dosis of
risperdal.
I'v been visit 2 group of doctors.
First one told me to take high doses of
risperdal 3 to 6 mg daily. The second
group said take 1.5 mg. So I could be
free of those side affect.
I don't have 幻覺hallucinations. I got
abnormal speech, this part been cure by
sending e-mail around, all got return
back. Could said i'd woke up at this
part.
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slam
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 100
Posted: 02-24-06 15:23pm
I have 15 internet forums I go to each
day. :)
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skysunmoon
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1 Location: UK
Posted: 08-13-06 12:49pm
slam
wrote:
i have 15 internet forums I
go to each day.
:)
schizophrenia forums? Do you post
continuesly telling people to stop taking
their medication? This is extremely
dangerous. Members should not be asking
this member how to stop taking their
medication, they should be speaking to the
doctor who is medically trained in this
and not some random person on the
internet.
Also, not everyone on this site is from
the usa, so you cannot possibly make any
judgement regarding other countires
psychiatry if you do not have any
experience with them.
I am schizophrenic and take medication.
It has not been an easy road adn I have
had several medications and it took
several months to find one that works for
me. This has helped me greatly and I can
now function day to day, where are before
I could not.
Its been an awful few years, this last
year having psychiatric treatment, but now
my medication is osrted I can move on with
my life rather than stuck in my psychosis
and paranoi and I am now going to college
to improve my lfe.
Medication has been a god send to me and
it is to millions of people.
Do not stop taking medication, stop
reading to much rubbish people post on
internet as a lot of it is
scaremongering.
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slam
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 100
Posted: 08-17-06 16:57pm
There are over twenty ways to get symptoms
of schizophrenia. Psychiatrists first
approach is to give dangerous medications
which has been known to cause frontal lobe
shrinkage as well as other damages in the
brain and body that can be irreversible.
I'm for alternative treatments like
psychotherapy. Books like soteria,
dante's cure, mad in america, your drug
may be your problem ..., gives enough
evidence it works and is safer for your
health. I hardly go to internet forums
on schizophrenia. Relax. :) I know
eventually the truth will spread that
there are alternative treatments that are
more successful! Sources are everywhere
if one cares to search.
Good luck.
P.S. Jei was diagnosed with
schizophrenia because he was over
sensitive to his father's death which
caused symptoms. Now he is able to cope
and is symptom free. Is the medication
really necessary? Of course not!!!!
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woops
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Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 222
Posted: 02-27-08 23:42pm
for some though the alternative treatments
wouldn't work, some of us would be dead
without our medication.
