Mental Health Coming off Invega (paliperidone) injections, v 5.0

[ExStonerExDrinker]

I had two. The first one was worse than the second but went on for longer. They told me I had it for life at first, it felt like a death sentence. I hope that holistic alternatives or other options are found for schizophrenia & recurring psychosis, because to me the anhedonia & loss of all enjoyment the meds bring is worse than death. My family wouldn't listen for a while when I was on Invega, but after a few months they knew it wasn't working for me (I went to the ER for not being able to sit down or sleep, very bad akathasia and insomnia. Had to take benzos to be able to be still for long periods). I finally convinced my psych to put me on Invega pills instead of the injection, & then I stopped taking my pills. My mom noticed that I was not taking them, and decided to watch my behavior instead of saying anything. She saw major behavior improvement - prior to that she believed my flatness & dullness & change of character was due to schizophrenia (it's what the psych said) - she decided to let me continue not taking them. I kept improving & was able to move back out about nine months later (could still barely cook, but could at least function at that point). I'm thankful that she had an open mindabout me getting off meds, even though she is the one who initially told the psych at the ward to put me on injections because I couldn't be trusted to take pills.

I do feel very lucky to have been misdiagnosed. Many in my family still believe I have schizophrenia either because of their experiences with me during psychosis or because they were told by my parents that I did. I have been completely normal for almost two years now with no episodes or behavior even close to episodes - but psychosis is really scary to those dealing with it & they don't have an interest in changing their mind.

Wow amazing. I’m trying to get put on pills if I relapse into psychosis after this second time I get off of invega.

 

[ExStonerExDrinker]

Your lucky. So you just had 1 episode of psychosis? I wish for me it was a 1 time thing but i guess i got this for life . Hear8ng voices isnt as bas as ppl think. I justnwish my family would.let me.live.woth hearing coices as opposed to putting me on meds that make me feel like shit.

Good luck fam

 

[Gdvffh]

Good luck fam

How did you end up hearing voices? For me it was chronic use of marijuana i regret smoking weed now cause it caused me to hear voices. Did hearing voices happen naturally to you too. Or were you doing drugs which caused it?

 

[Afernandes1]

Does anyone know how long it takes to lose the weight gained from invega?
I put on 30 pounds from the injections and am trying so hard to lose it
Anyone has advice on how to lose the weight quick?

 

[ExStonerExDrinker]

How did you end up hearing voices? For me it was chronic use of marijuana i regret smoking weed now cause it caused me to hear voices. Did hearing voices happen naturally to you too. Or were you doing drugs which caused it?

For me it was chronic drinking. I would drink from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to sleep for many years. And I would slip into psychosis/delusions briefly and I would snap out of them. Until one day I didn’t. I just stayed in heavy psychosis until the cops were called on me by my dad. I was seeing messages in everything that told me to hurt my dad so I expressed to him and he callled the cops. Then I was on invega for 8 months then my dad let me get off of the medication and I stop taking the shots cold turkey. And I was off for 8 months until I started having delusions again. But I was smoking weed the whole time I was off so I think that could have played a role on why I relapsed into psychosis. So after that I was taken to the hospital and got put back on invega shots and now I’m 8 months in. Planning on going a full year this time then slowly getting off it. This time staying sober, exercising, and taking supplements.

 

[Gdvffh]

For me it was chronic drinking. I would drink from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to sleep for many years. And I would slip into psychosis/delusions briefly and I would snap out of them. Until one day I didn’t. I just stayed in heavy psychosis until the cops were called on me by my dad. I was seeing messages in everything that told me to hurt my dad so I expressed to him and he callled the cops. Then I was on invega for 8 months then my dad let me get off of the medication and I stop taking the shots cold turkey. And I was off for 8 months until I started having delusions again. But I was smoking weed the whole time I was off so I think that could have played a role on why I relapsed into psychosis. So after that I was taken to the hospital and got put back on invega shots and now I’m 8 months in. Planning on going a full year this time then slowly getting off it. This time staying sober, exercising, and taking supplements.

I didnt really hear of anyone getting psychosis from heavy drinking. Yeah id lay off the weed if i were you. You need to stop drinking and stop smoking and hope you dont get into psychosis. The 2nd last time i had psychosis i was dri king at a japanese restaurant. I kinda think that triggered it for me. I had full blown psychosis like i couldnt sleep cause i heard voices talking to me all night. I was up for 2 nights. My roomate got worried and called my parents who suggested i move back in with them for 3 months then live on my own again. So i did. When i moved back in my parents called the cops on me and they sent me to a mental hospital and then i had to recover from antipsychotics injection again. This time when i recovered i had full blown psychosis again immediately and my parents called the cops on me again and then i ended up on a community treament order which im still on now. In all honesty the psychosis was fun. I thought i was talking to god jesus christ and holy mary. I was able to function cook and clean and work but i was hearing things. On meds i can barely think and i have no energy. Which is why i would prefer living with psychosis over being on meds. But they just force meds on you as opposed to letting you choose which i think is totally unfair.

 

[ExStonerExDrinker]

I didnt really hear of anyone getting psychosis from heavy drinking. Yeah id lay off the weed if i were you. You need to stop drinking and stop smoking and hope you dont get into psychosis. The 2nd last time i had psychosis i was dri king at a japanese restaurant. I kinda think that triggered it for me. I had full blown psychosis like i couldnt sleep cause i heard voices talking to me all night. I was up for 2 nights. My roomate got worried and called my parents who suggested i move back in with them for 3 months then live on my own again. So i did. When i moved back in my parents called the cops on me and they sent me to a mental hospital and then i had to recover from antipsychotics injection again. This time when i recovered i had full blown psychosis again immediately and my parents called the cops on me again and then i ended up on a community treament order which im still on now. In all honesty the psychosis was fun. I thought i was talking to god jesus christ and holy mary. I was able to function cook and clean and work but i was hearing things. On meds i can barely think and i have no energy. Which is why i would prefer living with psychosis over being on meds. But they just force meds on you as opposed to letting you choose which i think is totally unfair.

Yeah man I agree if you're not hurting anyone then why put you through hell by putting you on these types of medications. Well I hope everything works out for you. What is your name if you dont mind me asking?

 

[Gdvffh]

Yeah man I agree if you're not hurting anyone then why put you through hell by putting you on these types of medications. Well I hope everything works out for you. What is your name if you dont mind me asking?

my name is joshua lol, there releasing a new medication called ulotaront in 2 years which dosnt antagonize dopamine and serotonin receptors, im hoping this drug wont make you feel like shit like all the other dopamine antagonist drugs do. so now im just desperately waiting for the new drug to come out so i can get switched to it and move on with my life finally.

 

[Saiyana]

Are you taking any medication?

no I've been off Invega for 2 months now. I have also lost 10kg without even trying in 2 months since stopping medication which feels so good since I've been trying to lose weight the entire time I've been on Invega but I think Invega makes you so dull in the brain that all you're left with is animalistic desires like hunger.... Feel like I'm getting better day by day now that I'm off, just hoping I don't get psychosis again!

 

[Risingson8]

Today i felt bit strange...i feel like invega is slowly leaving my body ...my cognitive skills are fine and i feel less depressed its been 6 and half months btw... So there is hope.hang in there.

 

[Gdvffh]

Today i felt bit strange...i feel like invega is slowly leaving my body ...my cognitive skills are fine and i feel less depressed its been 6 and half months btw... So there is hope.hang in there.

Maybe you should start exercising and looking for a job if you dont have one if your feeling better. Its around the 6 month mark that i start feeling better too. How did you end up on invega. Were you experiencing psychosis? What caused your psychosis if thats why you were on it. Sorry if i asked you this already. Its what i ask everyone.

 

[Gdvffh]

no I've been off Invega for 2 months now. I have also lost 10kg without even trying in 2 months since stopping medication which feels so good since I've been trying to lose weight the entire time I've been on Invega but I think Invega makes you so dull in the brain that all you're left with is animalistic desires like hunger.... Feel like I'm getting better day by day now that I'm off, just hoping I don't get psychosis again

no I've been off Invega for 2 months now. I have also lost 10kg without even trying in 2 months since stopping medication which feels so good since I've been trying to lose weight the entire time I've been on Invega but I think Invega makes you so dull in the brain that all you're left with is animalistic desires like hunger.... Feel like I'm getting better day by day now that I'm off, just hoping I don't get psychosis again!

How did you end up in psychosis. What caused it? Hopefully you dont get psychosis again otherwise you may end up repeating being on meds again. My idea was to just have psychosis and live with it since i prefer psychosis over being on meds. For the most part i feel im able to control the psychosis but my family disagrees.

 

[n3ophy7e]

Does anyone know how long it takes to lose the weight gained from invega?
I put on 30 pounds from the injections and am trying so hard to lose it
Anyone has advice on how to lose the weight quick?

Are you off invega now?
Unfortunately with weight loss there really isn't any quick, long-lasting method. If you want solid, long-term results, in most cases it requires a lifestyle change. Healthy diet, watching your caloric intake, and EXERCISE are the best ways to lose weight.
It's also actually not recommended to lose too much weight too quickly, it's too much stress on the body. I think it's reasonable to aim to lose the weight in about the same timeframe as which you gained it, e.g. if you gained 40lb in 12 months, expect to lose 40lb in 12 months with hard work, exercise, healthy diet and portion-control.

For me it was chronic drinking. I would drink from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to sleep for many years. And I would slip into psychosis/delusions briefly and I would snap out of them. Until one day I didn’t. I just stayed in heavy psychosis until the cops were called on me by my dad. I was seeing messages in everything that told me to hurt my dad so I expressed to him and he callled the cops. Then I was on invega for 8 months then my dad let me get off of the medication and I stop taking the shots cold turkey. And I was off for 8 months until I started having delusions again. But I was smoking weed the whole time I was off so I think that could have played a role on why I relapsed into psychosis. So after that I was taken to the hospital and got put back on invega shots and now I’m 8 months in. Planning on going a full year this time then slowly getting off it. This time staying sober, exercising, and taking supplements.

Hey man, welcome to Bluelight

Yes 24/7 drinking can cause delusional psychosis, as can smoking weed, especially in people who are genetically predisposed to psychosis.

my name is joshua lol, there releasing a new medication called ulotaront in 2 years which dosnt antagonize dopamine and serotonin receptors, im hoping this drug wont make you feel like shit like all the other dopamine antagonist drugs do. so now im just desperately waiting for the new drug to come out so i can get switched to it and move on with my life finally.

Hey buddy I just wanted to remind you that the novel drug ulotaront is still in the trial phases of medication and its release on to the market is absolutely NOT guaranteed. A very large percentage of medications that get trialled, never end up actually on the market. I don't want to burst your bubble because I know you have a lot hedged on ulotaront being released, but I care about you and I don't want you to place all your eggs in the one basket, waiting for it to become available, and then it never does. In the meantime please try to focus on options that are available NOW, and then if ulotaront passes the trials and becomes available to the public within the next 5 years, at least it will be a bonus.

 

[Gdvffh]

Are you off invega now?
Unfortunately with weight loss there really isn't any quick, long-lasting method. If you want solid, long-term results, in most cases it requires a lifestyle change. Healthy diet, watching your caloric intake, and EXERCISE are the best ways to lose weight.
It's also actually not recommended to lose too much weight too quickly, it's too much stress on the body. I think it's reasonable to aim to lose the weight in about the same timeframe as which you gained it, e.g. if you gained 40lb in 12 months, expect to lose 40lb in 12 months with hard work, exercise, healthy diet and portion-control.


Hey man, welcome to Bluelight

Yes 24/7 drinking can cause delusional psychosis, as can smoking weed, especially in people who are genetically predisposed to psychosis.


Hey buddy I just wanted to remind you that the novel drug ulotaront is still in the trial phases of medication and its release on to the market is absolutely NOT guaranteed. A very large percentage of medications that get trialled, never end up actually on the market. I don't want to burst your bubble because I know you have a lot hedged on ulotaront being released, but I care about you and I don't want you to place all your eggs in the one basket, waiting for it to become available, and then it never does. In the meantime please try to focus on options that are available NOW, and then if ulotaront passes the trials and becomes available to the public within the next 5 years, at least it will be a bonus.

hi n3ophy7e, my back up plan is to simply get off the flupenexiol that im on now and get put on seroquel which i took while in the hospital and it didnt make me feel weak. its possible its cause i only took for 2 weeks or because it just dosnt give me negative symptoms. problem is im on this cto and the doctor dosnt want to swith me to pills. so i guess first step is to try and get off the CTO so i can either get on seroquel pills or be on no drugs at all.

 

[Afernandes1]

Are you off invega now?
Unfortunately with weight loss there really isn't any quick, long-lasting method. If you want solid, long-term results, in most cases it requires a lifestyle change. Healthy diet, watching your caloric intake, and EXERCISE are the best ways to lose weight.
It's also actually not recommended to lose too much weight too quickly, it's too much stress on the body. I think it's reasonable to aim to lose the weight in about the same timeframe as which you gained it, e.g. if you gained 40lb in 12 months, expect to lose 40lb in 12 months with hard work, exercise, healthy diet and portion-control.


Hey man, welcome to Bluelight

Yes 24/7 drinking can cause delusional psychosis, as can smoking weed, especially in people who are genetically predisposed to psychosis.


Hey buddy I just wanted to remind you that the novel drug ulotaront is still in the trial phases of medication and its release on to the market is absolutely NOT guaranteed. A very large percentage of medications that get trialled, never end up actually on the market. I don't want to burst your bubble because I know you have a lot hedged on ulotaront being released, but I care about you and I don't want you to place all your eggs in the one basket, waiting for it to become available, and then it never does. In the meantime please try to focus on options that are available NOW, and then if ulotaront passes the trials and becomes available to the public within the next 5 years, at least it will be a bonus.

Thanks for the advice!
Yes, I am off invega. I actually gained 30 pounds in 4 months after the 2 shots and am barely losing any weight now at 6 months off.

 

[Kaatrina]

How did you end up in psychosis. What caused it? Hopefully you dont get psychosis again otherwise you may end up repeating being on meds again. My idea was to just have psychosis and live with it since i prefer psychosis over being on meds. For the most part i feel im able to control the psychosis but my family disagrees.

Nobody knows what caused my psychosis. In 2016 I was going through a divorce with my first husband. He was military & cheated in terrible ways, I was young with a three&four year old. My little brother was very supportive to me at this time, he was my best friend. He died of an aneurism in July 2017. Nobody ever saw it coming, he had just got healthy & lost a bunch of weight. I had a job teaching swimming lessons to kids at the time & I spent a lot of time in highly chlorinated water. I don't really cope with emotions, I suppress them, & my family does not encourage communication about negative issues (so we never talked about my brother). At the end of 2017 I heard my first "conspiracy theory" when I saw a Q anon video on YT (yeah, it sounds so dumb now). I had never thought about these kind of ideas before (ideas like what if there was more to 9/11, things that don't add up to official narrative yadda yadda) & I found the distraction of losing myself in these ideas an almost panacea to my grief and problems at the time. "Qanon" was especially enticing to someone like me because it gave the impression that someone was going to put a stop to everything evil we looked at, if only we "believed" enough, almost. I got slowly more and more inundated, spent so much time on 8chan thinking if I missed any post I would miss something very important. People(?) on 8chan encouraged you to think in "numbers", for example if a post had a certain timestamp or correlated to a certain number it had some sort of special meaning. I think this is where I picked up the idea of numerical thinking (numerology? or is that different?) and I started applying it to my real life. It seemed the more small delusions I picked up the more large delusions I was able to accept. By summer 2018 I was believing that Q anon was my brother, that Google had sent out a hit on my brother with some kind of CIA heart attack gun because he was good at programming but a Republican, a bunch of shit like that. People were trying to push the idea of an "R" anon on 8ch who was supposed to complement Q through clues or some such bullshit. I felt that I recognized this as an operation to disenfranchise Q and so I assumed the role of this "R" on 8ch...someone made me my own /rresearch/ board there, as a joke, I think. But I just started writing and writing there after that. I started keeping journals during the day after that, writing down ideas like a crazy person in a movie...I can't describe it, but either way it's deleted now because 8ch was deleted after receiving pressure after some shooting in Texas or something like that.

Anyway, after that I really went downhill. By September 2018 Conspiracy based psychosis eventually seeped into my personal relationships and not just larger institutions. I stopped trusting my kids' school. I truly believed they were drawing their blood without my consent (reading about pizzagate and shit like that will fuck with you on a subconscious level.) I stopped trusting my current husband and went down to my parents' house 2 hours away with the kids thinking it was normal. My mom kept herself very distant & I left & drove East toward Chicago (I had visited there earlier in the Summer to visit my current husband's family and I wanted to take my child support & study at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Haha. Maybe not wise to leave at midnight with nothing. I spent my only $400 on clothes for me & my kids at Fred Meyer because I didn't pack. I literally had nothing. I panhandled my way from WA to Chicago. With my kids. I hardly slept. I think I stopped in Utah the first night, at a hotel outside a military base. I looked at a map on the wall & imagined that the US stopped at Illinois, & the entire east coast was either a lie, or something like that. I stopped in a city called Washington, Kansas. I had no money for a hotel but two ladies let me sleep at theirs. There is a sign on the road in Washington, Kansas that says "See the man behind the Green Curtain." In the morning I turned at this sign. The kids said "where are we going?" I said "maybe somewhere we can live". "The man behind the green curtain" is, I'm guessing, an empty house where the mayor of munchkin land used to live. There is a picture on the window of all of the munchkins with Judy Garland. Anyway, long story short I went batshit. The less I slept and ate, the more I deteriorated. I remember four hotels, one in Illinois, so I'm guessing I got there in four days. I remember getting to a hotel in Chicago. I was looking at the clock in my car without the time change so I checked in way too early. There was a black preacher outside the hotel who told me he would buy me dinner at the restaraunt there if I came. I went to the restaraunt. I was way too far out of it but I'm really thankful he bought me dinner, even though I couldn't eat it, & let me call my mom. I felt nothing but fear, but I cannot describe it. I opened up my computer in the hotel. I thought maybe I would get some answers on 8ch. Fucking 8ch was just talking about politics. Q had made a post (wow! Q made a post! It much have so much meaning!) It said "God bless the Republican party". God bless the Republican party? I could not give two shakes of a lamb's tail about the republican fucking party. I snapped out of something at that point. The kids wanted to watch Wildkratts on TV. The TV kept glitching out. I found a squished skittle in my backpack. It represented abortion, somehow. The kids wanted to leave the hotel. I drove to a store, like a rite-aid I think. The kids wanted donuts. I couldn't count the change I had. I asked the clerk where the nearest hospital was. I have no idea to this day how I followed those directions and drove myself there. I checked myself in. They took the kids. Matt's mom drove down from northern Illinois to get them (Thank God). They put me in the upstairs of the mental hospital. The one in Harvey, that's named after Green Gables. I guess you only get to go there if you are special. Haha.

What caused it? Who can say. I see people going through some shit on the internet sometimes with their news sources. "mass formation psychosis" is a buzzword right now. Do I think that the internet can cause psychosis? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe if you put your whole belief system into it and make it dysfunctional. I definitely replaced God with the internet around that time.

I really think that things wouldn't have gotten so bad if it weren't for my copper IUD. I had it removed last July, and I feel like my brain doesn't make the "jumps" when it comes to certain lines of thinking that it used to. The support forums for copper IUDs have far more people in them than this support forum, though there are not a lot of examples of psychosis there (just depression , stomach pain , & irrational attitudes & thoughts). Wilson's disease is a thing. I'll never know if I had it.

I have never talked about some of this before, even to my therapist. Sometimes it's easier to write than to say out loud, although I don't know why I have the need to do this at this time (procrastinating from school, probably). Anyway, take care everyone.

 

[Hopefuldopeful]

Nobody knows what caused my psychosis. In 2016 I was going through a divorce with my first husband. He was military & cheated in terrible ways, I was young with a three&four year old. My little brother was very supportive to me at this time, he was my best friend. He died of an aneurism in July 2017. Nobody ever saw it coming, he had just got healthy & lost a bunch of weight. I had a job teaching swimming lessons to kids at the time & I spent a lot of time in highly chlorinated water. I don't really cope with emotions, I suppress them, & my family does not encourage communication about negative issues (so we never talked about my brother). At the end of 2017 I heard my first "conspiracy theory" when I saw a Q anon video on YT (yeah, it sounds so dumb now). I had never thought about these kind of ideas before (ideas like what if there was more to 9/11, things that don't add up to official narrative yadda yadda) & I found the distraction of losing myself in these ideas an almost panacea to my grief and problems at the time. "Qanon" was especially enticing to someone like me because it gave the impression that someone was going to put a stop to everything evil we looked at, if only we "believed" enough, almost. I got slowly more and more inundated, spent so much time on 8chan thinking if I missed any post I would miss something very important. People(?) on 8chan encouraged you to think in "numbers", for example if a post had a certain timestamp or correlated to a certain number it had some sort of special meaning. I think this is where I picked up the idea of numerical thinking (numerology? or is that different?) and I started applying it to my real life. It seemed the more small delusions I picked up the more large delusions I was able to accept. By summer 2018 I was believing that Q anon was my brother, that Google had sent out a hit on my brother with some kind of CIA heart attack gun because he was good at programming but a Republican, a bunch of shit like that. People were trying to push the idea of an "R" anon on 8ch who was supposed to complement Q through clues or some such bullshit. I felt that I recognized this as an operation to disenfranchise Q and so I assumed the role of this "R" on 8ch...someone made me my own /rresearch/ board there, as a joke, I think. But I just started writing and writing there after that. I started keeping journals during the day after that, writing down ideas like a crazy person in a movie...I can't describe it, but either way it's deleted now because 8ch was deleted after receiving pressure after some shooting in Texas or something like that.

Anyway, after that I really went downhill. By September 2018 Conspiracy based psychosis eventually seeped into my personal relationships and not just larger institutions. I stopped trusting my kids' school. I truly believed they were drawing their blood without my consent (reading about pizzagate and shit like that will fuck with you on a subconscious level.) I stopped trusting my current husband and went down to my parents' house 2 hours away with the kids thinking it was normal. My mom kept herself very distant & I left & drove East toward Chicago (I had visited there earlier in the Summer to visit my current husband's family and I wanted to take my child support & study at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Haha. Maybe not wise to leave at midnight with nothing. I spent my only $400 on clothes for me & my kids at Fred Meyer because I didn't pack. I literally had nothing. I panhandled my way from WA to Chicago. With my kids. I hardly slept. I think I stopped in Utah the first night, at a hotel outside a military base. I looked at a map on the wall & imagined that the US stopped at Illinois, & the entire east coast was either a lie, or something like that. I stopped in a city called Washington, Kansas. I had no money for a hotel but two ladies let me sleep at theirs. There is a sign on the road in Washington, Kansas that says "See the man behind the Green Curtain." In the morning I turned at this sign. The kids said "where are we going?" I said "maybe somewhere we can live". "The man behind the green curtain" is, I'm guessing, an empty house where the mayor of munchkin land used to live. There is a picture on the window of all of the munchkins with Judy Garland. Anyway, long story short I went batshit. The less I slept and ate, the more I deteriorated. I remember four hotels, one in Illinois, so I'm guessing I got there in four days. I remember getting to a hotel in Chicago. I was looking at the clock in my car without the time change so I checked in way too early. There was a black preacher outside the hotel who told me he would buy me dinner at the restaraunt there if I came. I went to the restaraunt. I was way too far out of it but I'm really thankful he bought me dinner, even though I couldn't eat it, & let me call my mom. I felt nothing but fear, but I cannot describe it. I opened up my computer in the hotel. I thought maybe I would get some answers on 8ch. Fucking 8ch was just talking about politics. Q had made a post (wow! Q made a post! It much have so much meaning!) It said "God bless the Republican party". God bless the Republican party? I could not give two shakes of a lamb's tail about the republican fucking party. I snapped out of something at that point. The kids wanted to watch Wildkratts on TV. The TV kept glitching out. I found a squished skittle in my backpack. It represented abortion, somehow. The kids wanted to leave the hotel. I drove to a store, like a rite-aid I think. The kids wanted donuts. I couldn't count the change I had. I asked the clerk where the nearest hospital was. I have no idea to this day how I followed those directions and drove myself there. I checked myself in. They took the kids. Matt's mom drove down from northern Illinois to get them (Thank God). They put me in the upstairs of the mental hospital. The one in Harvey, that's named after Green Gables. I guess you only get to go there if you are special. Haha.

What caused it? Who can say. I see people going through some shit on the internet sometimes with their news sources. "mass formation psychosis" is a buzzword right now. Do I think that the internet can cause psychosis? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe if you put your whole belief system into it and make it dysfunctional. I definitely replaced God with the internet around that time.

I really think that things wouldn't have gotten so bad if it weren't for my copper IUD. I had it removed last July, and I feel like my brain doesn't make the "jumps" when it comes to certain lines of thinking that it used to. The support forums for copper IUDs have far more people in them than this support forum, though there are not a lot of examples of psychosis there (just depression , stomach pain , & irrational attitudes & thoughts). Wilson's disease is a thing. I'll never know if I had it.

I have never talked about some of this before, even to my therapist. Sometimes it's easier to write than to say out loud, although I don't know why I have the need to do this at this time (procrastinating from school, probably). Anyway, take care everyone.

Thank you for sharing that. The fact that you can recall your psychosis in such intricate detail is amazing! You seem to be doing pretty well where you are now. I’m glad to hear this and I am happy your kids are safe. I wish you the best in your journey.

 

[kicki]

Thank you for sharing that. The fact that you can recall your psychosis in such intricate detail is amazing! You seem to be doing pretty well where you are now. I’m glad to hear this and I am happy your kids are safe. I wish you the best in your journey.

Certainly. I vaguely remember mine, although I doubt if it will always be like this or if it is self-protection due to trauma.

 

[Risingson8]

Maybe you should start exercising and looking for a job if you dont have one if your feeling better. Its around the 6 month mark that i start feeling better too. How did you end up on invega. Were you experiencing psychosis? What caused your psychosis if thats why you were on it. Sorry if i asked you this already. Its what i ask everyone.

İ had kundalini awakening which i fought and won but the entity mess me up, my root chakra especcially...and then i went into deep psychosis after 1 year from that incidence.now im using 400 mg amisulpride to avoid relapse again...i have to wait till my chakras rebalance itself.

 

[iridescentblack]

Coming off Invega was horrendous for me. It seems the effort of removing the drug from my system did something to my memory and I started having visions instead of memories. It honestly got so bad at one point that I couldn't remember where I put my keys or phone (even just several minutes after placing them somewhere).

For years, after that, coming off invega resulted in consistent visions where 90% of my day was spent suffering through them. This persisted for years, but all of a sudden... not seeing myself in third person anymore through the window of my imagination. But now, all these memories are coming to surface. Things I must have repressed during the experience.

I know everyone's experience here is different. Probably none of you will experience this.