| nicasius
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 Posted - 10/27/2007 : 12:34:25
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I have been on this as an injection, but am no longer receiving them.
I consider this drug works best as a tablet. It works quite well and is actually much more than just an antipsychotic, it relaxes you and helps with sleeping.
It seems to have a reflective dimension where it affects your behaviour. It made me very depressed but I am now taking sertraline as an antidepressant and it has worked.
I don't know why but I need some kind of indulgent reward for my efforts. Leave us some neurotransmitters please.
It helped me to stop smoking. The anxiety it caused me led to my smoking every five minutes so I decided to stop.
I had a problem with morning depression and anxious dry mouth. So changed doses leading to the same daily dose but taking three equal doses instead of two.
It is so difficult to know what is a side effect and what is caused by your illness. Antipsychotics have caused me anxiety in the past (depixol). When you have this type of anxiety it makes for a really miserable existence since the drug seems to be controlling you, which of course is the desired effect!
Another desired effect is to reduce your sex drive to virtually nil together with the sexual reward you get from your brain (sexual ecstacy).
It also has the effect of making you more rugged, being less affected by sensitivities (including allergies). When people discuss alcohol they say it is a CNS depressant and hence becomes a "downer" causing depressive thoughts. Why Oh why don't they classify tranquilizers as CNS depressants as well. I would say they are and need to be countered by an antidepressant or SMOKING.
So there are two counter therapeutics required, one for parkinsonian side effects and one for depressant side effects.
So, when eventually you become habituated to the medication, you will have had to change your personality profile which of course is what it's all about: Out of strength comes forth sweetness and light.
Which would YOU prefer? To be scared by the words PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC, or to be sympathetic to someone by telling them you HAVE to take medication for a nervous disorder. People are actually aware of schizophrenia instinctively. The response is one of fear!
It is something to do with challenging behaviour rather like that of wild beasts e g big cats, bears etc. I don't want to frighten anybody, and never have, but apparently I have in the past, just by not taking my medication.
It took a suicide attempt to convince the doctors I needed antidepressants, and I still have suicidal thoughts as this seems to be a very satisfactory way of solving the problems I have in my lonely and self-obsessed life. Originally I diagnosed myself and now I know that this was the biggest mistake I ever made. That was 40 years ago, I didn't realise the effects on one's life that being PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC could have.
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Injection of resperdal?
