A little bit of background before I start bombarding you all with questions. My significant other was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia earlier this year after 4 months of battling psychosis. We were told it is a rather semi-severe case, but he has been doing absolutely amazing the last few months on medication. They started him on Zyprexa at first, but changed it to Abilify about a month ago. As far as I know, he hasn't had any signs of relapsing or ill-side-effects since the initial first 4-month-long episode.
The thing is, lately, he'd been anxious to get back into the rave scene again. We've gone to a few sober, but he's just not satisfied with that anymore. He won't get the idea of rolling again out of his head, no matter how much I beg him to leave it alone. I'm scared to death. I can't stop thinking about it, and it makes me absolutely sick whenever he mentions it. It's even making me begin to question parts of our relationship. I can't go through four months of hell all over again. I don't want to see him back in a facility, helpless, with his independence stripped from him. I don't want to worry that he'll never snap out of it the next time around... that he'll never be the same again if he relapses. It hurts to think about.
He already skipped one week of his Abilify meds before the last rave, and I know it was because he was intending on rolling, but I talked him out of it last-second. Him not taking his medication scares me almost more than him taking MDMA in his condition. But he's too smart for his own good, and knows that his anti-psychotic medications would hinder his ability to properly feel the MDMA's reaction.
Even before we found out he had schizophrenia (when he was in the "pre-stage" phase), he would act a little "off" when he was rolling sometimes. Not every time, but most of the time.
So anyway, it boils down to the fact that I need as much information as I can about MDMA and Schizophrenia. If he does end up taking something, I want to know what to expect. So my questions are as follows---
I will most definitely be adding more questions to this list as I think of them. Please post any information you think could be helpful. If there's a question I didn't ask and should have, please add it to the list, or answer it in your post.
The thing is, lately, he'd been anxious to get back into the rave scene again. We've gone to a few sober, but he's just not satisfied with that anymore. He won't get the idea of rolling again out of his head, no matter how much I beg him to leave it alone. I'm scared to death. I can't stop thinking about it, and it makes me absolutely sick whenever he mentions it. It's even making me begin to question parts of our relationship. I can't go through four months of hell all over again. I don't want to see him back in a facility, helpless, with his independence stripped from him. I don't want to worry that he'll never snap out of it the next time around... that he'll never be the same again if he relapses. It hurts to think about.
He already skipped one week of his Abilify meds before the last rave, and I know it was because he was intending on rolling, but I talked him out of it last-second. Him not taking his medication scares me almost more than him taking MDMA in his condition. But he's too smart for his own good, and knows that his anti-psychotic medications would hinder his ability to properly feel the MDMA's reaction.
Even before we found out he had schizophrenia (when he was in the "pre-stage" phase), he would act a little "off" when he was rolling sometimes. Not every time, but most of the time.
So anyway, it boils down to the fact that I need as much information as I can about MDMA and Schizophrenia. If he does end up taking something, I want to know what to expect. So my questions are as follows---
- Is there anything I can do to snap him out of it (would simply making him take one of his anti-psychotic pills do any good in that department?) if the pills end up causing a bad psychotic reaction?
- He tells me that his Abilify is basically made out of Piperazines. Is this true? He told me to look it up. Even if it has some truth, there's no way the recreational junk is anything close to the medical stuff he takes, but I want to know so I have a counter-defense when we talk about the possibility of him accidentally taking unclean E pills.
- Are there any reactions I should worry about between Abilify and MDMA? I tried to look this one up on bluelight already, but didn't find much of anything specific. Even in the post that one moderator dude made.
- Is there anyone on here who legitimately has Schizophrenia (diagnosed by a doctor/physician please, I don't need some self-diagnosed know-it-all to come in here and tell me shit that isn't true... after all, it's my boyfriend's fucking life I'm talking about) and can tell me their own experiences with taking MDMA with their condition? Any lasting effects? Any temporary effects? Any unusual during-the-fact effects?
- What is the likelihood they could cause an all-out relapse?
- He tells me that his Abilify is basically made out of Piperazines. Is this true? He told me to look it up. Even if it has some truth, there's no way the recreational junk is anything close to the medical stuff he takes, but I want to know so I have a counter-defense when we talk about the possibility of him accidentally taking unclean E pills.
- Are there any reactions I should worry about between Abilify and MDMA? I tried to look this one up on bluelight already, but didn't find much of anything specific. Even in the post that one moderator dude made.
- Is there anyone on here who legitimately has Schizophrenia (diagnosed by a doctor/physician please, I don't need some self-diagnosed know-it-all to come in here and tell me shit that isn't true... after all, it's my boyfriend's fucking life I'm talking about) and can tell me their own experiences with taking MDMA with their condition? Any lasting effects? Any temporary effects? Any unusual during-the-fact effects?
- What is the likelihood they could cause an all-out relapse?
I will most definitely be adding more questions to this list as I think of them. Please post any information you think could be helpful. If there's a question I didn't ask and should have, please add it to the list, or answer it in your post.
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