Has anyone diagnosed with with schizophrenia/psychosis felt that medication has made them worse off

[A.chilles]

I get forced injection with Paliperidone every month (by forced, I mean if I don't turn up to take it they come and take me away) and I don't know about you guys with schizo/psychosis but I have lost most of my motivation do anything in life, I feel dead inside and I can't think properly. I read somewhere that these are the symptoms of someone who doesn't have schizo and is taking antipsychotic medication. I also other people answers on reddit about dealing with the specific medication I am taking and many seem to agree with me about how it makes you feel dead inside and numb to life where you feel miserable just doing day to day tasks.

Just curious as to how your guys experience is with antipsychotics and do you think you benefited from it or not?

Add: I think I just have an overactive imagination and combine that with spending many hours alone by myself daily it built up to me hearing voices, which I still hear in a way but it is just my imagination sounding out environmental sounds...

 

[zoidar]

I get forced injection with Paliperidone every month (by forced, I mean if I don't turn up to take it they come and take me away) and I don't know about you guys with schizo/psychosis but I have lost most of my motivation do anything in life, I feel dead inside and I can't think properly. I read somewhere that these are the symptoms of someone who doesn't have schizo and is taking antipsychotic medication. I also other people answers on reddit about dealing with the specific medication I am taking and many seem to agree with me about how it makes you feel dead inside and numb to life where you feel miserable just doing day to day tasks.

Just curious as to how your guys experience is with antipsychotics and do you think you benefited from it or not?

Add: I think I just have an overactive imagination and combine that with spending many hours alone by myself daily it built up to me hearing voices, which I still hear in a way but it is just my imagination sounding out environmental sounds...

Hi,

I got my second psychosis in 2007. I have been on antipsychotics since. I know it's necessary for me to be on meds to keep the psychosis away. I have tried six different antipsychotics but never Paliperidone. The last years I have been on Perphenazine.

I don't recognize myself in your description, being numb or unmotivated (other than the months after a psychosis). My feelings and motivation are pretty normal, but I'm stress sensitive. I think the illness itself can mess with you, so it's not necessarely the medication. I guess it also depends on dosage.

I don't know why you have to be forced to take your meds, you seem to need them hearing voices and stuff. There must be a good reason you were put on them. There is always the possibility to try other antipsychotics if Paliperidone isn't working for you. It also takes time to find the right dosage.

Good luck and God bless!

 

[Unqualified]

You just got to take the good with the bad. You are not psychotic and you can fight against the lazy feeling and try to enrich your life. Don’t let the i don’t feel like it stop you from living your life. It will happen in time. Try things for a while and if you still feel stupid drunk then maybe your pdoc will let you take less or change it. They are on your side but it takes time.

 

[Job405]

Olanzapine 10mg takes care of my hallucinations and lexapro 15mg makes me calm when I have intrusive thoughts. But nothing has gotten rid of the intrusive thoughts, or affected them in any significant way, so far. I don't hear voices but it's like another entity has invaded my thoughts and it's constantly putting blasphemous and other evil thoughts into my mind. It's goal it seems to be to separate me from God by making me think that I have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, that I hate God or that I have rejected Christ, none of which is true.

 

[TheTrueWay]

Have you asked if you can try a different medication? I also know that some medications can cause that. Perhaps take a reference to an article or study on the topic with you to your check up?

 

[Gottservant]

I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt: chinese herbal medicine is about two to four times as good as Western chemical medicine.

 

[Godsangel89]

I get forced injection with Paliperidone every month (by forced, I mean if I don't turn up to take it they come and take me away) and I don't know about you guys with schizo/psychosis but I have lost most of my motivation do anything in life, I feel dead inside and I can't think properly. I read somewhere that these are the symptoms of someone who doesn't have schizo and is taking antipsychotic medication. I also other people answers on reddit about dealing with the specific medication I am taking and many seem to agree with me about how it makes you feel dead inside and numb to life where you feel miserable just doing day to day tasks.

Just curious as to how your guys experience is with antipsychotics and do you think you benefited from it or not?

Add: I think I just have an overactive imagination and combine that with spending many hours alone by myself daily it built up to me hearing voices, which I still hear in a way but it is just my imagination sounding out environmental sounds...

Its ruining my physical health more im almost 300 pounds i usually weight 140 or less. The psychtrist dont care because they are making money. A guy i new who suffer from it died of a heart attack because he gained to much weight.

 

[Job405]

Its ruining my physical health more im almost 300 pounds i usually weight 140 or less. The psychtrist dont care because they are making money. A guy i new who suffer from it died of a heart attack because he gained to much weight.

Yeah my weight has increased as well. I am more hungry and eat more than usual. Normally I weigh about 65kg but now I am close to 80kg if not over it already.

 

[Faith712]

I get forced injection with Paliperidone every month (by forced, I mean if I don't turn up to take it they come and take me away) and I don't know about you guys with schizo/psychosis but I have lost most of my motivation do anything in life, I feel dead inside and I can't think properly. I read somewhere that these are the symptoms of someone who doesn't have schizo and is taking antipsychotic medication. I also other people answers on reddit about dealing with the specific medication I am taking and many seem to agree with me about how it makes you feel dead inside and numb to life where you feel miserable just doing day to day tasks.

Just curious as to how your guys experience is with antipsychotics and do you think you benefited from it or not?

Add: I think I just have an overactive imagination and combine that with spending many hours alone by myself daily it built up to me hearing voices, which I still hear in a way but it is just my imagination sounding out environmental sounds...

I used to take invega too but I managed to convince them to get me off of it. I hated invega.

 

[zoidar]

Its ruining my physical health more im almost 300 pounds i usually weight 140 or less. The psychtrist dont care because they are making money. A guy i new who suffer from it died of a heart attack because he gained to much weight.

Yeah my weight has increased as well. I am more hungry and eat more than usual. Normally I weigh about 65kg but now I am close to 80kg if not over it already.

Older meds I think is better for the weight. On the one I take, Perphenazine, I'm basically on the same weight as before medication. I gained about 15-20 pounds on the A-typicals.