Thanks for your help, It's sad that your son had become involved again with weed, that's bad.
That weed with CBD compounds seems promising, but I still have fear about taking it, it could make me go crazy again, are you son taking it? is it working ? making him feel better?
Well I should say that Zyprexa helped me a lot, and I didn't even had any withdrawal symptoms, I also just took the pills for about 2 months maximum.
About the supplements you suggested, I had before talked with my psychiatrist about taking 5-htp to start feeling better, and she said I cannot take those kinds of pills.
You say that: "So I would encourage you to wean yourself off of the anti-psychotic meds as quickly as possible" , you mean I should drop Invega by myself? I want to, but I have fear of having another episode even though I won't smoke again, do you think its possible?
Thanks for your help
Mr. T, I’m glad to hear what you’re experiencing with Zyprexa. My son wants to try that again to see if it makes him feel any better. I keep thinking he has some good days or good times, but he tells me no. He says that he may sound normal, but he still feels terrible. He keeps talking about how his life is so useless and pointless. He’s worried about what would happen to him when we, his parents, are gone. He kept saying that he will be dirt poor because he can’t make it in school, and he can’t seem to handle working. I keep telling him it’s the Invega making him feel that way.
My son’s psychiatrist also told us that he shouldn’t take 5-htp. All I know is when he did that and the other supplements, he got better. So far, nothing the psychiatrist prescribed has helped. In the last 2 weeks, he’s tried Fluoxetine HCL (Prozac - 2 different strengths), Trazodone, and BuPropion HCL SR (Wellbutrin). Nothing helps, Prozac made it worse, and the last one just made him feel “weird”.
The Cannabidiol (CBD oil) that I’m giving my son has almost no THC in it. (maybe 0.1%. It seems to be helping him tremendously. His psychosis is of course gone. But his entire personality has changed too. He changed dramatically for the better in a very short time. He used to be angry all the time, rude, demanding, unappreciative, and even threatening. There were times that I was afraid to be around him. All of that is changing. He seems to have a much better understanding of how to deal with people. He talks to me like he never has before. He hugs me and tells me that he loves me. He appreciates all the things I’m doing for him. If we go somewhere, he opens doors for me. He even told me that his father is a really nice guy. He’s never said that before – that I can remember. This was all happening before he got the Invega.
The scientific experiments using CBD oil to treat Schizophrenia do not have THC, or very minimal amounts of it. The patients do just as well with the CBD oil treatment as they do with standard Anti-psychotics (APs), but without the side effects. Please do some google searches on CBD oil treatments for psychosis. There’s lots of information on it.
I’m taking the CBD oil too. It helps with sleeplessness, my peripheral neuropathy, joint pain, and other things. It comes mainly from industrial hemp, which you could smoke all day if you wanted to, and it wouldn’t get you high. Industrial hemp is mainly used for rope, fabric, and a hundred other things. CBD oil is legal in the U.S. to buy. I would get a concentrated form. Also, do your best to get the proper nutritional supplements.
Pharmaceutical companies have created a drug from Cannabis to treat nausea from chemotherapy, but it probably has THC in it because one of the potential side effects is ‘feeling high’. You don’t want that.
I wouldn’t suggest going off any APs without having some committed person around to help you. All those drugs are very hard to get off of on your own. If you know someone who knows about alternative healthcare (ideally Orthomolecular Psychiatry), that would be a great help.
If you are anything like my son, your internal endo-cannabinoid system, which is supposed to protect you from psychosis, was insufficient due to being overwhelmed by a combination of things – smoking weed, lots of stress, lack of sleep, poor nutrition, forgetting supplements, and neurotoxins (THC, caffeine, sugar, nicotine, alcohol).
I’m convinced that no one would have mental health issues if they took proper care of themselves. But I’m definitely in the minority.
If I win the next $1 billion dollar lotto, I will open a state-of-the-art mental health clinic, using only health giving substances to help people get better. No poisonous pharmaceutical drugs allowed.
