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Mental Health Coming Off Invega Sustenna (Paliperidone) v4

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apsucks said:
did you notice any improvements while being on the abilify ? how is the anhedonia ? i'm taking tablets 5mg and have to up it at 10mg soon. Hilarious they call it medications there is nothing medicinal about it.
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I saw zero improvements on abilify. It did nothing positive for me. Like Invega, i was forced against my will to take these injections. I am so glad that is in the past and no longer current. I am off all APs.

anhedonia is pretty much back to normal i would say. i can listen to music and i do get to experience some pleasure.

If i were you, i would get off all APs. You sound like you don't need them. I still have the side effects but it is getting better. it feels great to be off these so called meds
 
It is okay to cry, just keep it to yourself. :p

Here are the benefits of crying.​


1. Crying relieves our stress. Tears produced by stress actually force our bodies to rid themselves of chemicals that raise cortisol, which is the stress hormone. This reduces tension from the body. Crying also activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which helps us relax.


2. Crying improves our mood. Crying is self-soothing. It helps us regulate our own emotions. When we force ourselves not to cry and ignore the way we have been feeling, it can lead to headaches and high blood pressure. Crying is a way to release negative feelings that have built up in a healthy way.


3. Crying reduces toxins. Toxic substances are released from the body along with our tears. Just like sweating, exhaling, and urinating, crying gets rid of substances that should not be present within our body. It also encourages us to clear our nasal passage.


4. Crying kills bacteria. Tears contain lysozyme, which is capable of killing 90 to 95 percent of all harmful bacteria in just five to ten minutes. That means crying is not only good for our emotional health — but also for our physical health.


5. Crying reduces pain. Crying releases oxytocin and endorphins which make us feel better both emotionally and physically. Instead of acting like we are fine when we suffer from an injury, it actually benefits us to cry because it could raise our pain tolerance.


6. Crying improves vision. Tears lubricate our eyeballs and eyelids. When we cry, the tears help wash away dust and debris. It also prevents dehydration which can cause blurriness.


7. Crying helps us sleep better. Since shedding tears causes us to relax, it puts us in a more peaceful state of mind, making it easier for us to fall asleep and stay asleep.


8. Crying demonstrates strength in character. When we cry, we are confronting our emotions instead of hiding from them. We are growing as a person. We are becoming more emotionally mature.


9. Crying helps the grieving process. It is a step toward recovery. By hiding our feelings, we will have a hard time receiving closure. The more we allow ourselves to feel, the better we will feel in the long run. It gives us a chance to move forward instead of staying stuck in the past.


10. Crying boosts communication. There are interpersonal, social benefits to crying. When we are struggling to explain the way we are feeling, crying can help emphasize the strength of our feelings about a subject. It can get across a point that we are unable to make with words.


11. Crying increases intimacy. Crying can bring us closer to another person because if we are comfortable being vulnerable in front of them, our relationship must be strong. We must really trust each other. We must really love each other. Sharing our deepest feelings with someone will make them more likely to share their own feelings with us in the future.
 
apsucks said:
How do you get through the day everyday everything is dull and boring
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I get up and try to wash so it can wake me up. I take 30 XR adderall and coffee to help me get three the day and I stay around my family .
 
Weļl į would like to share my story, which is maybe not 100 percent success story, but still success. I am diagnozed f20.0, so paranoid schizophrenia. I myself am not sure do i really have it, but i surely had three psychotic breakdowns, in 2006,2017 and 2019. Well, i never heard voices, but psychotic breakdowns were hell, but i will not go Into details, those who know they know.

So after last episode i went to hospital, was diagnozed f20, before it was f23, and was put first on risperidon, then on xeplion. Actually reaction to risperidon was hell, į had terrible akathisia, could not sit or lie, just walk, later į could not even walk, but since į was not dying they decided i am good for xeplion.

First the dose was 75mg, and first months it felt like not too bad, but slowly i noticed myself getting dumb, and from that even i fought a lot į slowly went Into depression.

Then they gave me sertraline, but it changed nothing, į slowly started to have high anxiety, and troubled sleeping, so i went to hospital again and doctors said that it is negative symptoms of schizophrenia, and raised the dose to 150mg.

After leaving hospital i felt a bit better, į was given other drugs also, lorazepam was one of them, but i think it was just psychological, of course it is a bit better, since you leave that boring hospital.

I managed alone to record some music, which you can listen here: ishmalda.bancamp.com

But anyway depression lingered on and was getting worse day by day. Well you know it. I was already reading this thread, and puting all fault on xeplion, also i know from my own experience, cause after first two breakdowns į was given olanzapine, which also made me zombie and then depressed, but after three months of quiting, everything went fine.

It was not easy to persuade the doctors and family and friends that i want to quit xeplion, but i managed to do that, so last october i quit, first lowering the dose to 100mg, then 75mg, october was last injection.

First nothing changed and nothing changed for six months, after six seven months, it got worse i started have again troubled sleeping, anxiety, strong suicidal thougts, i was already bedridden, so my friends got worried and suggested to visit doctors again.

I was very desperate already, so i agreed. So they gave me again two Antidepresants mirtazapine and sertraline, and quetiapine, but low doses, after they added aripriprazole also low dose, 10mg.

And suddenly after 8 months of quiting xeplion, i started to feel well, everything changed in more or less two days.

Of course the question stays was this aripriprazole or not. But anyway the thing still troubles me that į did not get my fantasy back, i cannot create music, and mostly still am silent, but silence is power it is not a big deal. Important thing depression is over, i have again motivation, and don't think everything is shit..
 
Suffering at 3.3 months off is not even close to 1 month off, it was pure unbearable hell. Depression is on 10% now. Mood is neutral. I can also fall asleep normaly now and sleep ~8h-9h.
 
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abzora said:
Weļl į would like to share my story, which is maybe not 100 percent success story, but still success. I am diagnozed f20.0, so paranoid schizophrenia. I myself am not sure do i really have it, but i surely had three psychotic breakdowns, in 2006,2017 and 2019. Well, i never heard voices, but psychotic breakdowns were hell, but i will not go Into details, those who know they know.

So after last episode i went to hospital, was diagnozed f20, before it was f23, and was put first on risperidon, then on xeplion. Actually reaction to risperidon was hell, į had terrible akathisia, could not sit or lie, just walk, later į could not even walk, but since į was not dying they decided i am good for xeplion.

First the dose was 75mg, and first months it felt like not too bad, but slowly i noticed myself getting dumb, and from that even i fought a lot į slowly went Into depression.

Then they gave me sertraline, but it changed nothing, į slowly started to have high anxiety, and troubled sleeping, so i went to hospital again and doctors said that it is negative symptoms of schizophrenia, and raised the dose to 150mg.

After leaving hospital i felt a bit better, į was given other drugs also, lorazepam was one of them, but i think it was just psychological, of course it is a bit better, since you leave that boring hospital.

I managed alone to record some music, which you can listen here: ishmalda.bancamp.com

But anyway depression lingered on and was getting worse day by day. Well you know it. I was already reading this thread, and puting all fault on xeplion, also i know from my own experience, cause after first two breakdowns į was given olanzapine, which also made me zombie and then depressed, but after three months of quiting, everything went fine.

It was not easy to persuade the doctors and family and friends that i want to quit xeplion, but i managed to do that, so last october i quit, first lowering the dose to 100mg, then 75mg, october was last injection.

First nothing changed and nothing changed for six months, after six seven months, it got worse i started have again troubled sleeping, anxiety, strong suicidal thougts, i was already bedridden, so my friends got worried and suggested to visit doctors again.

I was very desperate already, so i agreed. So they gave me again two Antidepresants mirtazapine and sertraline, and quetiapine, but low doses, after they added aripriprazole also low dose, 10mg.

And suddenly after 8 months of quiting xeplion, i started to feel well, everything changed in more or less two days.

Of course the question stays was this aripriprazole or not. But anyway the thing still troubles me that į did not get my fantasy back, i cannot create music, and mostly still am silent, but silence is power it is not a big deal. Important thing depression is over, i have again motivation, and don't think everything is shit..
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i've read a few people claiming that sertraline helpd them recover it's one of the few SSRI that target dopamine as well. If you have the option its better not to take any Anti-psychotic they only make you brain dead and retarded. taking a bunch of anti-depressants doesn't mean your healed.

how many injections you took ?
 
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