@zack365: (applause) sounds like your top tier in healing now. your perspective is getting back to the way it was and is working pretty well to notice those observations. keep it up.
@Emersonny: great post. i'm just bringing up a grey area as a perspective check and not getting on your case, i hope you take it as such.
it's because of what you said and that video is why i say i'm not for or against meds and psychiatry in general, i'm only for finding what works. what your talking about i've seen with my own two eyes many times. we try to stay on topic of invega/xeplion in this thread because it is conducive to the healing process. make sense?
they do have a thread specifically for the discussion of mental health and medications here, it was made by a real nice lady and it has remained pretty open with opinions and real life experiences.
http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads...rot-out-your-medications-bias-and-lemme-at-it
anytime you want to post in there PM me and i got your back.
to answer your question: imo we all continually move forward (even if we don't realize it). our symptoms if we have a mental illness do stay the same but the other parts of how our brains function keep moving forward. it's hard to explain but if those other parts didn't keep progressing our lives would become so stale that it would be worse than while suffering on the poison. what?! something can be worse than the poison?!, crazy i know. but since those other parts continue to change overtime some aspects of symptoms do change with them. other aspects not so much until they are manageable or "go away" permanently ( i wish we would come up with a way of saying cured without using that word). this also differs on a case by case basis. i've talked to one person on the net who suffered from invega and when they got off of it and fully healed their illness no longer bothered them. even crazier i know. that is one reason why i say this is a highly experimental and very potent med.
in short: sometimes old "habits" do go away. but if they don't the old habits are better to try and manage then what we go through while suffering. plus it gives you something to work toward in this life. always something to do and forward always. again, it sounds crazy but it's really not. you'll see for yourself soon enough.
if i may: sounds like what your talking about when interacting with people is trying to learn how to take things with a grain of salt as well as being mindful. i had to work on both a lot while dealing with the poison even though i thought i put in a lot of effort in the past. it was a worthwhile effort cause even during my trial it has benefited my life much even after being healed. people are kinda funny in how we communicate, we never fully communicate what it is we are trying to express. it's like horseshoes, close is good enough. those people we really sync up with consider it a blessing and make the most and enjoy it when it comes your way.
today's world is kinda hectic and it's not always you who is communicating or interpreting ineffectively. being able to learn the difference is important. might i suggest trying some cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). they are what psychiatry should've been doing all along and don't require meds, it's like fine tuning yourself with an adjustment. one teaches you how to be mindful of your inner workings and one being mindful of your inner working interacting with the world outside of you basically.
