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

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HelpMeInvega said:
Anhedonia isn’t permanent but it’s not going to go back to the way it was before. So brace yourself for that. We know it’s driving you crazy you mention it a lot. You’re going to have to wait like eight six or seven months. But it won’t go back to the way it was before because the brain never returns to normal. So prepare yourself for that. Same with getting high it won’t ever feel the same as it once was because someone keeps mentioning that that’s the only thing they care about is being able to get high it’s never going to go back to the way it was and you’re just going to have to deal with it. Antipsychotics do permanent damage!
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I dont think it does permanent damage, otherwise I would have been really ill from taking olanzapine and invega pills for the duration of one month (invega for a couple of days) Im 18 months off my injection and since about 3 monhts ago I have been starting to see improvements. When was ur first injection and how many?
 
miserable1 said:
Ok well my brother and his girlfriend both got pretty sick for some time after the covid-shot. Fortunately they allready had three kids. I dont belive it was the covid-shot itself that wrecked me, but the fact that it was injected in the same spot in my arm where I already had the invega stored, so it caused more invega to my brain and I started malfunctioning quite a bit. Either that or they just gave me the abilify which they wanted to but was refused by urs truly.
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The last time I was in the mental facility I was actually afraid that they gave me the Covid vaccine instead of the normal antipsychotics too, there was a guy there walking around to people's rooms at one point asking if we wanted one though.
 
In the beginning for the first couple of years the antipsychotics made me feel weaker or like a little kid around people or something too like some people mentioned, it was extremely fucked up..and really made me hate people more. Nowadays after enough days of suckage though I think that I adjusted..I think there's some saying somewhere that good things come to those who suffer for a long time, let's hope so..
 
I was thinking about how I could manage my time better to try to have some kind of success at some point. I work full time now which is 40 hours per week, then I can study programming or do software testing or study something else that I need to for 15 hours a week, then work out for 5 hours a week, then that would be 60 hours worth of 'work'
per week..

The other thing that I could do is get a part time job for 12 hours a week say 3 days per week for 4 hours a day, then work out for 3 hours a week and study 10 hours then that would add up to 65 hours of stuff to do a week. That's probably the most stuff that I'd be able to do consistently..If I could even do 60 hours of all that stuff that'd be great..then maybe twice a month go to the clubs and bar districts to keep current on things and to stay social. Maybe hang out with somebody a couple of times a month too if that happens. Then in 6 months try to move out to either the Mexican ghetto area or preferably one that's in this college town that's not that far from where I'm at that I went to before.
 
In the past I had some problems with people fucking with me at work at some point saying things and whatever else, and of course that kind of thing happened when I was younger in school too, but if somebody nowadays tries to get in the way of me and that job and my money I'm just going to walk right through that motherfucker, I'm going to steamroll them..in the past there were guys saying stuff or there was even this chick there who was a server at this restaurant and I was a dishwasher and she was like stepping to people like a dude like she wanted to do something or something, I hate that kind of shit..There's a special place in hell for people who fuck with others at work or school or wherever else that you can't just get away from them that easily..
 
Gdvffh said:
Yeah i reverted to my pre antipsychotic state, ive done it 3 times b4 so i think you can return to normal.
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Did your imagination and thoughts also reverted back to normal when you recovered?
Did you use St. John Wort in your recovery?
 
I’ve been off of Invega Sustenna for 9 months I received 17 shots and I’m on 20mgs of Latuda. Which is basically like nothing!
 
HelpMeInvega said:
I’ve been off of Invega Sustenna for 9 months I received 17 shots and I’m on 20mgs of Latuda. Which is basically like nothing!
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17 shots is a lot! It probably will take you sometime to recover, so don't be so pessimistic. Also, I think antipsychotics might hinder your recovery, even if its only 20 mg.
 
Slurred speech, slow running, poverty of thought, slowed reflexes, lack of imagination, inability to think quickly, IQ has gone down, don’t enjoy music as much sometimes it just feels like background noise. Lots of things
 
UnluckyXeplion said:
The body is a sophisticated machine, when it gets out of balance, that's where disease starts to show up.
Mental illness is no different, it might be a problem with the gut, the brain and the stomach are interconnected.

Balanced body doesn't need any meds.
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I think that this is true. Menninger says in the 60s that it's a little known fact that MOST people with unbalanced mental health RECOVER..crazy that people still sort believe in the mind's ability to rebalance and heal even today. He also said that hope is integral to this process.
Bigsmoke420 said:
I never lost the ability to get high fortunately, but I've had this account for about 2 years and seen people come and go. Most people who haven't gained back the ability back within 2 month never get high again. Just keeping it real.
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I don't really smoke but I was definitely able to get high the first time I smoked off invega which was 1.5 years into recovery.
HelpMeInvega said:
Anhedonia isn’t permanent but it’s not going to go back to the way it was before. So brace yourself for that. We know it’s driving you crazy you mention it a lot. You’re going to have to wait like eight six or seven months. But it won’t go back to the way it was before because the brain never returns to normal. So prepare yourself for that. Same with getting high it won’t ever feel the same as it once was because someone keeps mentioning that that’s the only thing they care about is being able to get high it’s never going to go back to the way it was and you’re just going to have to deal with it. Antipsychotics do permanent damage!
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This is not true. You believe this because you are experiencing anhedonia from Latuda.
Dreeery said:
Does anyone know if it goes back to how it was before after taking antipsychotics?
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Yes!
HelpMeInvega said:
That’s gone forever! Your imagination is destroyed.
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Wrong. As proof, look at this chair I just finished painting to donate to my local library's silent auction.
 
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