Nice, it might be beneficial to mention your findings about the damage of antipsychotics. Psychiatrists probably know about it but silently believe the reward of being chemical lobotomized and thus helping “manage” our psychotic symptoms outweighs the dangers that come with taking antipsychotics. People are surprisingly human when they’re the ones who are to a degree responsible for the administration. If you complain enough they’re likely to lower the dosage too, and if you stay affluent and intellectually engaged with them it’ll make them believe you’re more qualified to get off the medicine. It’s a pinch of elitism sprinkled into the approach of getting off these meds but I wonder how valuable staying compliant without also staying vigilant about your position will be.
You probably have to be your greatest advocate and make sure they know you’re gonna be safe once you get off the CTO. If you don’t change the narrative to be about your own personal intellect and circumstance then they’ll continue to use the historical record of this being your 2nd CTO against you and may keep you on it for longer than necessary. Shit will get scary if they extend it another time like you said.
Nice, I’m unsure of how it works with Abilify but the ability to get high is a good thing regardless. Stay strong and continue hitting it up every once in a while especially after another subsequent injection. Abilify has a shorter half-life then Invega too, so once you get off you’ll be able to recover much quicker than us on Invega who are stuck waiting 6-10 months for it to completely leave our system, in addition to it being potentially forever damaging to some. It doesn’t seem like Abilify has the same dangers of Invega thankfully.
