Yes, having my whole personality ripped away from me was traumatic. All I could think was "This is probably what a lobotomy feels like" before I even read anything about it. I've seen people call this "chemical rape" and yeah, it is akin to rape. I didn't give informed consent, I took it because I was scared and wanted to go home.
Oh yeah, this is easily without a doubt the absolute most horrid, most unbearable experience I've ever gone through in my entire life. Being almost immediately stripped away of everything that makes life enjoyable and worth living, rapidly proceeding to gain over 70 pounds within the span of 3 to 4 months, going from being active, healthy, motivated, and productive with the will to live to the complete opposite for several months later, and worst of all, not being able to sleep for even a single minute for MONTHS until I eventually had a stroke, further leading to more problems than I already had. I said at one point I'd rather cut off a foot or leg, even hand or arm, donate several non-vital organs, or even end up in jail just to avoid ever getting injected again, which should thankfully ever occur again anyways since I'm now very well aware of how insanely harmful certain "medications" like these can be. It's been over 8 months since the last and only injection but I'm still in constant fear thinking that's all it took to cause permanent damage, especially since I had a stroke and all.
Anhedonia in combination with my other side effects is and was traumatic and extremely stressful.
How many months are you off?
4 complete months, I just started month 5. I have recovered significantly emotionally, but there is still much improvement to be had.
I was injected with Invega in the hospital for not a clear reason really, it was kind of a rushed sort of thing, not really told what it’s for, and you’re already confused while in there so it’s very difficult to make a decisive informed decision about your care. I made a full recovery from Invega. I’m not sure what the dose was but I don’t think it was that high because I didn’t really have a lot of problems from it besides weight gain which I was able to lose. I’m sorry you’re dealing with regret. It’s really hard. I’m doing EMDR therapy for it , it might be something that you would be interested in
It depends really. I mean, I don’t want to scare you at all but my sensitivity hasn’t recovered 100%. But I was also on 15mg Abilify pills for 3 months which caused this. So since you had less than me, the odds might be more in your favor of recovering your response to caffeine.
I think so, it does sound like you are recovering, feeling more energy is a good sign that things are normalizing more to your natural homeostasis.
It scares me for what it could mean for my dopamine receptors/dopamine production. I already have ADHD and therefore a duller response to dopamine. I'm going to be so mad if I made my ADHD untreatable. I'm also scared because low dopamine is associated with developing dementia and my grandma had dementia.
No, it lasts 14 half-lifes.
