@Reilly: congratulations on being healed. thank you for coming back and spreading some hope and personal experience.
@Ammarishot: thanks for checking back in with us. i hope you have much continued success in your life and here's to staying poison free.
@zack365: short answer, no. it helps you to deal with them though. trying to get rid of any kind of thoughts both good and bad is impossible. we need both to survive and experience life. when confronting such negative thoughts it might raise your inner constitution and energy to better deal with them. rise to the occasion so to speak. your going to want to be aware of what caffeine does to you, go past your limits and it will be harder to deal with those negative thoughts. i've been switching between one cup of water and one cup of black tea through out the day and both help (especially with my tweaking behavior xeplion induced in me). in time you will not be so focused on violent negative thoughts. your psyche wont be crammed into one space in your mind and the receptor that the poison targets will work again. you will be able to focus on good and cool thoughts again. it all balances out. (btw respect your limits when working out too, poison does bad things to the brain and body). hang in there.
@Steph78: shortness of breath i feel ya on but i think mine is different than what i had in the past, i was going to get to that in response to LifeAfterInvega. it's typical for anyone who suffers from the poison. sometimes you got to take a minute until it passes. dang girl, makin me hungry with the steak talk. all those sound delicious. i'm a medium rare kinda girl myself. coffee still makes me feel the same as you plus i get all spun out in the head and that's why i stick to lipton black tea. does wonders sometimes (have not tried any kind of green tea yet but i hear it helps too). you will enjoy coffee again. your so close your going to be telling everyone you can enjoy coffee and smoking again soon.
@Johnnypupuke: been reading from the shadows lately? this is going to sound bad but the way you complain about the poison is much better than when you first started posting. you even sound more coherent. great progress. keep reading and posting.
@HateInvega: speaking of progress you seemed to have calmed down. i'm glad to see you got through that tough spot. (your lucky, i got a head full of hate, turmoil and s**t 27/7 still, it's getting better slowly). good stuff in that post, good advice too. well said.
@Specified: i've never taken clopixol. to answer your other question it depends. it does for some but not all. we're all different. when i took a few different psych meds to try and find the antidote i could tell they were doing something but not much. i can get drunk and high again so i'm pretty sure i could get something from psych meds though i'm off them for life from here on out.
@Inv33: that's awesome news. great feeling isn't it, party responsibly if you do. for some it is hard to tell if they are healed or not, poison is a real pain in the keister. it's been almost a year and that fear you had at first has lifted, your post is much brighter. nice to have that inner recognition of what is going on without it being clouded huh? unless you have to save the world right this second there is no harm in giving it more time to see if your healed or not just to be sure. sounds like you are if not dang close. good timing on your post btw, shedding some hope here.
@nybryx: i smelled that fart all the way over here. i know it was you, you can't deny it. (thanks for squeezing one out even though you didn't need to, to cover up the smell of the one i ripped just before you did. good lookin out.)
@Hellohihey: Johnnypupuke sounds like he contradicted himself but i'm sure you got what he was getting at. he was talking the logistics of science. that's why we've called them waves. the half life is a breaking down of what is left in your system the waves are the negative aspects of when your down. good question and very relevant, your right it is a good sign in healing. i've cried several times but not getting full closure on a few bad things that happened when first on the poison. accepting those patterns as they come is a good way to prepare yourself. not so hard now that you kinda know what to expect, alleviates some of the stress. yet another good sign.
@Empty1128: all good. we eat because we want to and have to, it's life. some have taking to eating because they missed everything they got from it, it's the psychology of the mind. what sounds more like what your experiencing is when you reach a certain point in healing your body starts demanding food because it will need it (brain too), loading up is doing what your body and brain is telling you to do, hence they know how to take care of themselves. i use to eat out of a microwave for a year because of the poison so i know what eating crap is like, that was after a few months of not really eating at all. i drank a lot of soda/pop, did a lot of drugs, smoked a lot of cigarettes and the worse of the sleeping effects were happening. eating healthy has always made those on the poison have an easier time and recover slightly faster. some swear that fasting has been a big help. miss Decisive said as much herself recently. either way it's not a bad idea to try out. big change? indeed, you being a glutton right now i would say so. keep working it and you'll get the results your looking for.
@Dptchild: those are typical questions a lot of us wanted answered at first. Empty1128 is right. we're all different and give it time in order to be able to smoke again. sorry this happened to you. how long? half life is 25-49 days. that's a short way of saying average healing time is 8 - 12 months with a 2 year exception. some heal faster, some take longer. you might be able to smoke in a few months and enjoy it. lots of good info in both threads plus some BLUA to review. your new so don't stress about the infraction, just be mindful this is a harm reduction site first and foremost. we are thankful we have this place to meet and talk about things. try to find the antidote to the poison if not find ways to make this better. those who have healed before us have felt drugs and alcohol again. some here who are very close to being healed feel it even. mods and other people are going to suggest focusing on other aspects of healing plus the disclaimer of using substances while on psych meds or if you have a mental illness is probably not a good idea, better to be safe than sorry. welcome to the thread, feel free to share your story and ask questions.
@LifeAfterInvega: damn! me too, haha. actually it's been something i can't control for a year now, been self pleasuring too much on the comedown off something as always. it's been nice the last few days i haven't been doing it really at all. what you say about exercise is true. and on the topic of pushing ones self... i've been very patient in not doing this and respecting my limits during this trial and you know what? i'm sick of it. i thought my life was bad before these last few months but now i can't do anything for myself or anyone else. in the last few months i've been out of breath from taking a walk to the mailbox, can't do things i need to get done, had a can of re-fried beans sitting on the couch next to me trying to make a pan of nachos for 3-4 weeks now and still haven't; and when i tried to wash my car a week or two ago i got home and fainted.
that shortness of breath i mentioned to Steph earlier, i think this is different now. before it was my body adjusting to what's been done to it, low blood pressure too. now when i get short of breath i also get weak, tormented in the head and all these jerking motions of the body among other things. i'm pretty sure this is the atrophy telling me it's time to start pushing myself to function the way i use to again. i pushed myself last night and i'm doing better today. if tomorrow i'm not doing as well then yes, i'm pushing. think my healing is done and it's time to pick up the pieces, re-build and move on. 8 years has been a long time, too long and i've been patient long enough. if my body and brain are done doing what they need to do healing wise, then i need to do the rest myself.
it's always been some people have been able to be active while on the poison and some have not. i've been both of those through out this whole thing and getting bogged down here in the end. i'm tired of being a negative exception. think it's time i finally get a say in how this goes from now on. think it's time i showed this poison, psychiatry and the rest of science what happens when you push me down over and over again for 8 years. i'm pissed enough and tired enough that i think it's time i prove they have to go back to the drawing board again, that i did better than them on this one again, i made this work when they failed again, i got more info again and i finished what they started again.
now it's time to start pushing back. why? because
I'M NOT GOING TO STOP... EVER!!