Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v. 10

[Trueart2]

I would get recalled to hospital and sectioned

Yeah great job on your part not letting that happen to you. If you go back into the psych ward while on CTO/Court order I expect it to be absolute game over for an individual. I remember one guy suggested threatening them with suicide would restore the power dynamics but generally everything but compliance in these situations is an awful idea.

Proud you haven’t fell into the ward again.

 

[rawbanana]

I really miss the life I had before all this

 

[demileigh]

Hey guys, psych wants me to take vraylar / reagila for a year and pretty much reckons it will help with my anxiety. I have 2 weeks to make up my mind before I see them again. Anyone been on it before? Any advice?

 

[brokenself]

Hey guys, psych wants me to take vraylar / reagila for a year and pretty much reckons it will help with my anxiety. I have 2 weeks to make up my mind before I see them again. Anyone been on it before? Any advice?

I mean it's another antipsychotic you really think that is going to help anything?

 

[Deleted member 583706]

Hey guys, psych wants me to take vraylar / reagila for a year and pretty much reckons it will help with my anxiety. I have 2 weeks to make up my mind before I see them again. Anyone been on it before? Any advice?

its an activating antipsychotic like abilify. I don't feel any sedation on abilify and i like it. Doesn't do much for anhedonia but it improves my mood and even my family noticed i'm happier. Up to you if you want to give it a try or wait out till invega leaves ur system.

 

[brokenself]

its an activating antipsychotic like abilify. I don't feel any sedation on abilify and i like it. Doesn't do much for anhedonia but it improves my mood and even my family noticed i'm happier. Up to you if you want to give it a try or wait out till invega leaves ur system.

Why would it be given for anxiety though? Psychiatry is such a joke field if only I had a computer when I was in the psych hospital would have never got this retarded injection.

Doctors prescribe Vraylar to treat schizophrenia and manic, mixed, and depressive episodes of bipolar I disorder. They also prescribe it to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), often called depression.

How Vraylar works: Mechanism of action explained

Find out how Vraylar works and how long it takes to start working.

www.medicalnewstoday.com

 

[demileigh]

The psych first offered to switch me to it when the injections stopped 4 months ago when he revoked my treatment authority then when I went back yesterday about my anxiety he’s pretty much said it again. He could tell I wasn’t really on board with it and was like i ThOuGhT yOu wAnTeD aNxiEtY mEdiCaTiOn after my experience with invega from the akathesia to the cognitive dulling, loss of human emotions, even had urine rentention and an itch on the back of my head, red pin point dots all over my legs, was constantly drowsy, sore hands and feet when i was waking up… I’m shit scared to take another antipsychotic but I also don’t know how to deal with the severe anxiety, it’s making it hard to function… even making my sons lunch for school has been me feeling sick with anxiety doing absolutely anything is making me anxious need to get a haircut but the anxiety is stopping me from doing that. I have stressful and intrusive thoughts as I’m waking up which is putting me in a state of anxiety from the moment I’m up. This is hell

 

[demileigh]

Thinking I might try acupuncture and i do start CBT on the 9th, really don’t want to take medication but am currently using valium for temporary relief

 

[paranoid android]

Thinking I might try acupuncture and i do start CBT on the 9th, really don’t want to take medication but am currently using valium for temporary relief

I take benzos for anxiety but i make sure to take a break every month now so i dont become dependant on them. They are really only a problem if you get addicted to them and even then only a problem if you run out

 

[demileigh]

I take benzos for anxiety but i make sure to take a break every month now so i dont become dependant on them. They are really only a problem if you get addicted to them and even then only a problem if you run out

Yeah only got 25 yesterday but have another 5 or so sitting around somewhere too. Psych wont keep giving them to me because their addictive and pretty much said he was only giving the amount he did give me to trust him with the vraylar/reagila

 

[paranoid android]

Yeah only got 25 yesterday but have another 5 or so sitting around somewhere too. Psych wont keep giving them to me because their addictive and pretty much said he was only giving the amount he did give me to trust him with the vraylar/reagila

Antipsychotics generally dont make great antianxiety drugs. I mean they have been prescribed for anxiety going all the way back to thorazine but they just arent great at it. I take zyprexa a sedating antipsychotic and it does nothing for my anxiety sadly

 

[demileigh]

Antipsychotics generally dont make great antianxiety drugs. I mean they have been prescribed for anxiety going all the way back to thorazine but they just arent great at it. I take zyprexa a sedating antipsychotic and it does nothing for my anxiety sadly

I feel so defeated

 

[paranoid android]

I feel so defeated

Didnt mean to make you feel defeated lol. What about maybe trying lyrica? it works for some people

 

[demileigh]

Didnt mean to make you feel defeated lol. What about maybe trying lyrica? it works for some people

No not your fault I feel like that, it’s the anxiety and psych wanting me to go the antipsychotic route to treat it… the reagila is meant to be weight neutral which is one of my concerns, I can’t afford to gain any more weight. Also don’t think the psych is going to give me any meds I suggest, he seems pretty set on me taking reagila

 

[keepinghope]

Hi everyone I created a discord focussed on all the aspects of healing as an OG vet in the depot injection comeback arc... it is a culmination of 1000+ hours of research and trial and error and is just now in the works.. I am in Western Australia working with a friend that also had the injections.. if anyone is interested in joining please pm me. thanks

zak

 

[Trueart2]

The psych first offered to switch me to it when the injections stopped 4 months ago when he revoked my treatment authority then when I went back yesterday about my anxiety he’s pretty much said it again. He could tell I wasn’t really on board with it and was like i ThOuGhT yOu wAnTeD aNxiEtY mEdiCaTiOn after my experience with invega from the akathesia to the cognitive dulling, loss of human emotions, even had urine rentention and an itch on the back of my head, red pin point dots all over my legs, was constantly drowsy, sore hands and feet when i was waking up… I’m shit scared to take another antipsychotic but I also don’t know how to deal with the severe anxiety, it’s making it hard to function… even making my sons lunch for school has been me feeling sick with anxiety doing absolutely anything is making me anxious need to get a haircut but the anxiety is stopping me from doing that. I have stressful and intrusive thoughts as I’m waking up which is putting me in a state of anxiety from the moment I’m up. This is hell

Try some CBD for anxiety. CBD also is reported to work as a antipsychotic as well, at least by some preliminary studies. Taking another antipsychotic while you’re currently in the process of recovering from Invega generally to my understanding isn’t beneficial for an individual.

Taking antipsychotics to treat anxiety won’t do you any good in my extremely biased opinion. It may just end up dulling you quite a bit and that’ll take away the “anxiety”. Your psychiatrist probably doesn’t care about your Invega circumstances either, him giving you a type of ultimatum about the situation kinda stinks. I know that’s not how the situation actually happened

 

[demileigh]

Try some CBD for anxiety. CBD also is reported to work as a antipsychotic as well, at least by some preliminary studies. Taking another antipsychotic while you’re currently in the process of recovering from Invega generally to my understanding isn’t beneficial for an individual.

Taking antipsychotics to treat anxiety won’t do you any good in my extremely biased opinion. It may just end up dulling you quite a bit and that’ll take away the “anxiety”. Your psychiatrist probably doesn’t care about your Invega circumstances either, him giving you a type of ultimatum about the situation kinda stinks. I know that’s not how the situation actually happened

Yeah I’m going to go to my GP and ask to be prescribed CBD… need a prescription for it in aus though I do have some with a very low percentage of thc in it that I’ve been using sporadically that someone else got for me. I’ve looked right into that antipsychotic this morning including what the withdrawals are like and it’s a hard pass for me. Fuck that psych honestly… my mums been coming with me and she said do you think my heightened anxiety could be a withdrawal or caused from coming off invega and he totally gaslit the situation and continued to try to persuade me to take antipsychotics. Left that place feeling so low yesterday

 

[Deleted member 592081]

Yo its tony

 

[Trueart2]

Yo its tony

CUH wyd why aren’t u logged into tonytony

 

[Trueart2]

I gained 25 pounds and I haven’t lost any. To me I think losing the weight is a true indication of recovery so if that happens I’ll know recovery is real

Maybe so, but losing weight is mostly on us. I don’t think invega wearing off is gonna take all my 50 pounds of weight I’ve gained away