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Mental Health Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections v 8.0

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has anyone tried this ?

https://ambio.life/personal-change/#regeneration

  • re-sensitization and regeneration of neurotransmitters
  • increased blood flow and electrical activity in inactive brain regions
  • reductions in neuropathic pain
  • neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis
  • essential tremors
  • traumatic brain injuries (both from high performance sports and from combat)
  • severe, chronic neuropathic pain
 
Davievargie said:
Video games were my only escape with my illness and now I wake up every day lost and in a fog with nothing to give me pleasure and nothing to help me escape. Invega has definitely affected my reward system in my brain and my anhedonia is so intense I feel like a dryed sponge on a beach. Add in social media where I can see healthy people thriving and living their lives and I just wanna be dead.
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I feel you man I’m 13 months into this hell I’m completely fucked …. What do you do to pass the time ? I’d advise watching some podcasts like stories (mr ballen ) to give your brain something to try and focus on …. Trying to follow the storyline is what brings me my only form of mild escape wich is just distraction Essentially … but it’s helped my chronic suicidal thoughts … try true crime podcasts on YouTube maybe ?? How many shots you have ? How long you off ?
 
Mucky said:
I feel you man I’m 13 months into this hell I’m completely fucked …. What do you do to pass the time ? I’d advise watching some podcasts like stories (mr ballen ) to give your brain something to try and focus on …. Trying to follow the storyline is what brings me my only form of mild escape wich is just distraction Essentially … but it’s helped my chronic suicidal thoughts … try true crime podcasts on YouTube maybe ?? How many shots you have ? How long you off ?
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I got 3 shots at the highest possible dose (which I think is like 234mg). On the 18th of this month I’ll have been off 4 months and am not seeing huge improvements. I don’t get nauseous as often, I’m not as tired, but I have no reward system in my brain. And when I mean none I mean none. I wake up each day feeling foggy and out of rhythm with myself with not much to look forward to. I try to do things I love, but it feels forced because it’s not happening naturally with my chemically-altered neurotransmitters.
 
I recently came up with a new way to articulate how post-Invega has made me feel. I’m sorry to post so much and so urgently, but I feel the faster and more articulate I can explain my suffering after coming off this med, the more people can relate and hopefully give more comfort and solace and hope to us all.

With that being said, on the 18th of this month I’ll have been off 4 months and am not seeing huge improvements. I don’t get nauseous as often and I’m not as tired—which are both good and reliable metrics of improvement. The big problem remaining, however, is that I have no reward system in my brain. And when I mean none I mean none. I wake up each day feeling foggy and out of rhythm with myself with not much (if anything) to look forward to. This is especially weird to me because I feel that most if not all human beings have a natural rhythm to their routines, to their days, to their life. Not me. I’m always out of touch with myself, including my sleep schedule, and have literally no inherent desire to do the few things I love (schizophrenia’s negative symptoms were already hitting). Nonetheless, I try to do things I love, but it always — and I mean always — feels forced, namely, because it’s not happening naturally with my chemically-altered neurotransmitters in my brain. As always, though I hope I get better soon. I’m still due to see a neurologist as soon as my PHP straightens out a referral they messed up on. Keep y’all posted.
 
AlphaMethylPhenyl said:
Absolutely.

I think adding more substances to the picture oneself, if somewhat benign in certain cases, is self-medicating and kind of gets in the way of a full, natural recovery. People with all kinds of conditions don't, imo, rely on healthy habits enough. I do wish there was a substance that would make everything better for me. But it doesn't exist. Healthy habits have done more for me in the end than my (past) reckless drive to find a magic cure.
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Nah not at all, even though this forum doesn't like to hear it drugs that raise dopamine when you probably have almost none in your brain right now from the injections can be a night and day difference for a person, I don't give a shit what anybody says about it either, 'alternative' drugs helped save my life. Couple that with a disciplined routine and working out and you're well on your way towards getting your life back.
 
Dre87 said:
Nah not at all, even though this forum doesn't like to hear it drugs that raise dopamine when you probably have almost none in your brain right now from the injections can be a night and day difference for a person, I don't give a shit what anybody says about it either, 'alternative' drugs helped save my life. Couple that with a disciplined routine and working out and you're well on your way towards getting your life back.
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You're going to have to be respectful to people here.

Antipsychotics don't lower the amount of dopamine you have in your brain, for one. Secondly, that phrase raising dopamine doesn't really mean anything. The brain is much more complicated than that. It could mean 500 different things. We are far off, scientifically, from understanding a great deal of neurochemistry and psychopharmacology. Thus it doesn't do any good to substantiate your opinions with severely reductive explanations.

You're free to do what you want, but self-medication with dubious substances is not something to recommend.
 
I don't believe I will be able to call myself recovered this year. PSSD brought back almost all of my symptoms. I don't expect to be recovered from it until two years pass.

I threw away my last chance at a normal, successful life by taking invega because I was scared I was going to be killed in the mental hospital because I didn't have a therapist to talk to while I was there. I am what happens when you are not attended to in a mental hospital. I also tried to take my recovery from this shit into my own hands instead of waiting, and it messed up another mental disorder I had, so I tried to fix it with Prozac.

Every day, I hate myself for doing all this shit. I had just learned to love myself and not be afraid of what my intrusive thoughts meant about me. I thought I was going to finish my portfolio and find a job last year, but all this shit disabled me in every way that mattered as an artist.

I'll make a full post in April. I said earlier that I didn't have cognitive problems, but I didn't really know what cognitive problems were. I have had serious memory problems since PSSD. I don't think anywhere near like I used to. I don't feel emotions and physical sensations like I used to, although I do feel everything. It's like someone turned the dial on everything way down.

I finally loved myself. I lived up to all of the moral and emotional ideals I held and I felt like I was a good person. I was deeply in touch with my emotions and I cared a lot about the world. That's all gone and I don't know who I am anymore but I don't like who I am, once again. There's this ember that is still "me" however. Nothing can take my morality and beliefs away from me.

I feel like the PSSD is getting better and I'm one of the lucky ones. It's rare to get improvements in the first few months or even year if you get them at all. I had invega. I had serotonin syndrome. I smoked weed and took lion's mane after all of that, then I got covid. It's a miracle I'm still running in any capacity at all.
 
bojana said:
Can brain heal from this brain damage we got?
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I think so, fasting increases dopamine receptor density. Semen retention and not jerking it for 3 months probably does too and can double your testosterone level and help the brain to regenerate better. Working out hard is also very important too and take good supplements. I'd recommend taking some street drugs too if you need it because sometimes they can really help to get you out of a jam and give you a radically new perspective on things and maybe a renewed energy to keep up the good fight.
 
AlphaMethylPhenyl said:
You're going to have to be respectful to people here.

Antipsychotics don't lower the amount of dopamine you have in your brain, for one. Secondly, that phrase raising dopamine doesn't really mean anything. The brain is much more complicated than that. It could mean 500 different things. We are far off, scientifically, from understanding a great deal of neurochemistry and psychopharmacology. Thus it doesn't do any good to substantiate your opinions with severely reductive explanations.

You're free to do what you want, but self-medication with dubious substances is not something to recommend.
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I'm saying that those street substances can save people's lives..I hope you know that psychiatry really is evil and they also actively suppress any negative and alarming studies that come out about their neurotoxic chemical poison shit that they push on people which they call 'medications'. It's a Big Pharma psychiatric industry mafia and I've heard that the actual organized crime mob is also involved with the psychiatric industry and the major pharmaceutical companies too.
 
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