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

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Wer said:
(9 months off)
Yes anhedonia is still here and it bites. I'm working on (creative and intellectual)projects I like if I have motivation, that's when anhedonia is least active and I can feel some good stuff at most of time. Watching TV, I can't do it. My motivation is low on most things. Anxiety still bites.
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Did you ever had to stop working because of the injections?
 
I have terrible insomnia, I am never sleepy I sleep 1h. I wonder who else had this issue and recovered and how?
 
Nurse Ratched said:
Do whatever feels right and good for you. After all, you have to live with yourself. You got your dose lowered and you have seroquel to help you sleep so maybe that's what's going to work for you. If you would rather take zero meds that's fine too but just make sure you are prepared for emotions and issues that might come up and stay in contact with your Dr.

Don't take the advice of the other members in this thread. They are unique and only they know what they need and what they don't. The thread is an echo chamber of misery and everyone feels they will never recover. But if you read the posts carefully you will see they are doing nothing to change their life. They sleep all day or play on the internet all day or just sit on the couch all day. They aren't looking for work or taking walks or getting sunshine or eating healthy. They are flat out convinced they will never recover.......so they never will. They want to kill their Psychiatrists and sue J and J but they never want to tell you the behavior they did to get them on the injections in the first place. Especially the Court ordered ones. They make it sound like they were perfect, well balanced individuals and they were kidnapped and forced on the Invega. Truth be told many of them were probably quite violent and hurt someone. Or suffered true psychosis and after many psych ward visits they still refused to take their meds. Lots of behaviors that they don't want to admit. Just want to tell others that they are trapped like they are and that there is no hope. So you just do whatever you think is best for you !
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I'm eating healthy (and it is quite expensive), taking a walks every day around 10k steps. I work and do creative and intellectual stuff. But still at 9 months not recovered from initial dose. I'm also detoxing using some natural ways.
 
Monty! said:
How long did it take you to recover and how many shots did you take
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2 shots 14 months for a COMPLETE recovery, but around 7 months I had few side effects left and was able to live a semi normal life again. It’s hard for me to get on this forum because it brings back bad memories and I’m just trying to move on from the whole invega experience and live my life. I hope everyone understands.
 
Bigsmoke420 said:
2 shots 14 months for a COMPLETE recovery, but around 7 months I had few side effects left and was able to live a semi normal life again. It’s hard for me to get on this forum because it brings back bad memories and I’m just trying to move on from the whole invega experience and live my life. I hope everyone understands.
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Is that 2 shots including the 2 loading doses or just 2 shots as in just the loading doses?
 
lau_rahxo said:
Is that 2 shots including the 2 loading doses or just 2 shots as in just the loading doses?
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2 loading doses. 156 and a 75 - I tried the pills for about a week and I wasn’t taking them well so the psych decided to give me 2 low dose injections besides starting with a 234.
 
Nurse Ratched said:
Do whatever feels right and good for you. After all, you have to live with yourself. You got your dose lowered and you have seroquel to help you sleep so maybe that's what's going to work for you. If you would rather take zero meds that's fine too but just make sure you are prepared for emotions and issues that might come up and stay in contact with your Dr.

Don't take the advice of the other members in this thread. They are unique and only they know what they need and what they don't. The thread is an echo chamber of misery and everyone feels they will never recover. But if you read the posts carefully you will see they are doing nothing to change their life. They sleep all day or play on the internet all day or just sit on the couch all day. They aren't looking for work or taking walks or getting sunshine or eating healthy. They are flat out convinced they will never recover.......so they never will. They want to kill their Psychiatrists and sue J and J but they never want to tell you the behavior they did to get them on the injections in the first place. Especially the Court ordered ones. They make it sound like they were perfect, well balanced individuals and they were kidnapped and forced on the Invega. Truth be told many of them were probably quite violent and hurt someone. Or suffered true psychosis and after many psych ward visits they still refused to take their meds. Lots of behaviors that they don't want to admit. Just want to tell others that they are trapped like they are and that there is no hope. So you just do whatever you think is best for you !
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As a moderator this is a very judgemental post, it seems the moderators are becoming more and more pro psychiatry, also alot of the people come here to talk to people going through the same thing and i assume this post could make some of these people feel worse.
 
I know she would never ever intend to make people feel worse, getting off my ass in deep depression, easier said than done but worked wonders, i really have a big heart for this thread,and breaks my heart to read of the suffering, she made some valid points but i also see your view, we all are far from perfect, mod or not, but again you have my respect, things arent always the way they seem, just like your opinion on mods favoring anything, i do hope you dont take this wrong not playing sides or working brownie buttons, cos it really doesnt mean anything one way or another in the scheme of things (my life), just want you to feel better, Nurse Ratchet meant no harm
 
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Runawayfar said:
As a moderator this is a very judgemental post, it seems the moderators are becoming more and more pro psychiatry, also alot of the people come here to talk to people going through the same thing and i assume this post could make some of these people feel worse.
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It may have been a bit judgmental but it was the truth. It's not like the invega thread has just started and is only 8 pages long or something. This is volume 4 or something which means that there are about 800 pages ( 16,000 posts) that precede this. It's a support thread sure but not everyone will blow kisses, say they love you, and tell you you are a wonderful person and they just know that you will be better in 2 months. People have to REALLY work at their recovery harder than they have ever done anything before in their lives. That's how drug addicts recover. It's a long road but the serious ones make it out. The others dont. It's just life.

Not sure I as one individual is going to make anyone feel worse. If I did make someone feel that way I would hope that they would step back, take stock of their life, and fight to become the person they want to be. It will be the hardest thing they ever did but it will be worth it. And I am not pro psychiatry. Have never seen one in my life and have no opinions about people that need them. Behavior is what interests me and peoples words and behaviors are all that really matters as that's what makes us who we are. Regardless of what you think I do hope everyone in this thread recovers and becomes the people they know they can be.
 
Ryanne said:
I know she would never ever intend to make people feel worse, getting off my ass in deep depression, easier said than done but worked wonders, i really have a big heart for this thread,and breaks my heart to read of the suffering, she made some valid points but i also see your view, we all are far from perfect, mod or not, but again you have my respect, things arent always the way they seem, just like your opinion on mods favoring anything, i do hope you dont take this wrong not playing sides or working brownie buttons, cos it really doesnt mean anything one way or another in the scheme of things (my life), just want you to feel better, Nurse Ratchet meant no harm
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Thanks for this hon. Anyone that gets to know my style knows I'm honest and fair. Being an old lady I don't have any room in my life anymore to be super sweet and tell people everything will be okay. Unless they change...it won't be okay. You and I know I learned that the hard way. We either work our asses off to get better or we never will. It's actually pretty simple. But it's the hardest thing we will ever do.
 
Runawayfar said:
As a moderator this is a very judgemental post, it seems the moderators are becoming more and more pro psychiatry, also alot of the people come here to talk to people going through the same thing and i assume this post could make some of these people feel worse.
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Yes I feel very bad. It is for me impossible to work I have akathisia, anhedonia, cognitive impairment, insomnia, zombie walking. I can do really nothing at month 3rd. I took 6 dosis pressed by family who has abandoned me now because they think I should be internate because what I am taking about can't be xeplion effects. My life is hell and the post didn't help
 
Bigsmoke420 said:
2 shots 14 months for a COMPLETE recovery, but around 7 months I had few side effects left and was able to live a semi normal life again. It’s hard for me to get on this forum because it brings back bad memories and I’m just trying to move on from the whole invega experience and live my life. I hope everyone understands.
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When anxiety went away, and when 80% anhedonia went away?
 
Runawayfar said:
As a moderator this is a very judgemental post, it seems the moderators are becoming more and more pro psychiatry, also alot of the people come here to talk to people going through the same thing and i assume this post could make some of these people feel worse.
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Yeah most if not all of the moderators on this forum are perps
 
Wer said:
When anxiety went away, and when 80% anhedonia went away?
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I never had the anxiety, anhedonia recovered 100% Around 12 months. I had most of my emotions back around 9 months then full range of emotions around 12. I knew the anhedonia would go away eventually because my emotions returned, a lot of people who have anhedonia not even from invega have loss all emotions.
 
Tbh a lot of the forum has people believing Invega destroyed them when they just need a change of medication. She’s right though. Whatever she said is better than the 14000 pages of the same people in misery. I don’t visit anymore unless someone legitimately has recovery questions. I would recommend staying away from hopeless members as they wish to dig themselves deeper.
 
Masterp423 said:
Yeah most if not all of the moderators on this forum are perps
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Also true. This is a recreational drug site. So nurse Ratchet probably did Meth at one point so don’t take them too seriously. And definitely don’t feel like a fucking moderator of a website is better than you hahaha
 
Hopefuldopeful said:
Tbh a lot of the forum has people believing Invega destroyed them when they just need a change of medication. She’s right though. Whatever she said is better than the 14000 pages of the same people in misery. I don’t visit anymore unless someone legitimately has recovery questions. I would recommend staying away from hopeless members as they wish to dig themselves deeper.
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Not true, all antipsychotic drugs have life destroying effects due to dopamine depletion.
 
Has anyone experienced hallucinations after coming off of antipsychotics? And did you know the hallucinations weren’t real and how long did they last after coming off of the meds?
 
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