Maybe what you had was a drug induced psychosis, I know a girl who had a the same but her psychiatrist gave her injections of Invega Sustenna for only 6 months instead of 2 years....
She recovered after one year and a half and she doesn't touch weed anymore, now she's fine. Since you took pills, the half life is shorter than injections, in general it takes 5-6 half lives for a drug to be mostly eliminated, so you have to search the half life of your drug first and do the calculation.
I strongly recommend you to not touch weed again if you don't don't want to fall into psychosis for the third time!
After your first psychotic episode, you recovered your emotions and motivation? How long did it take?
I won't touch weed anymore thats for sure. So do you know the half life of Invega 6mg pills ? I will do some search also on google.
Yeah after my first psychotic episode I recover my emotions and motivation really easy, it took around a month or 2 months maximum, I was okay.
It seems Invega is much more powerful than Olanzanpine when it takes too remove emotions and motivation...
Should be the same as the olazapine mister T, the insomnia is meant to be really bad for a good few days with olazapine withdrawal, think invega has a longer half life, just be careful not to fall back into weed smoking because next time you might get the injections and they are a different ball game
Good luck
Are you saying the time for recovery of Invega is the same as olanzapine? that would be great! It took just a few weeks to get better with olanzapine. Sadly I won't touch weed anymore, because I know now that my brain doesn't handle it =( Stupid small and weak brain I have =S
My son had 3 major psychotic breaks. I personally strongly believe these events are a result of a perfect storm of a number of problems coming together all at once. He’s been smoking weed since he was about 14. Each time the psychotic episode was preceeded by a period of time where he was smoking weed, partying, drinking alcohol, having too much caffeine, lack of sleep, poor diet, nutritional imbalances, dehydration, and of course stress (the last straw). The last straw for you was evidently the trip (stress).
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He wants to try the Zyprexa again – against my wishes, to see if it helps him through this withdrawal. We’ll see tomorrow what his psychiatrist says. I think that if he goes back on Zyprexa, he will be going through another withdrawal period later – and maybe it will be worse because he’ll have 2 drugs in his system.
I encourage you to look back over the previous posts which myself and others have recommended specific supplements and other strategies to help you recover.
Good Luck!
Thanks for your help, It's sad that your son had become involved again with weed, that's bad.
That weed with CBD compounds seems promising, but I still have fear about taking it, it could make me go crazy again, are you son taking it? is it working ? making him feel better?
Well I should say that Zyprexa helped me a lot, and I didn't even had any withdrawal symptoms, I also just took the pills for about 2 months maximum.
About the supplements you suggested, I had before talked with my psychiatrist about taking 5-htp to start feeling better, and she said I cannot take those kinds of pills.
You say that: "So I would encourage you to wean yourself off of the anti-psychotic meds as quickly as possible" , you mean I should drop Invega by myself? I want to, but I have fear of having another episode even though I won't smoke again, do you think its possible?
Thanks for your help
