was your life destroyed by antipsychotics or ssris?

[k1m]

I had a generally good life before being misdiagnosed with mania and being injected with invega sustenna which is a chemical lobotomy. It's been over a year since that injection and my life has never been the same. My sense of taste and small are altered nothing is as strong as before, I have a dull pain in my throat that doesn't go away, random twitching from time to time, anhedonia, problems with sleep (I never get a deep sleep anymore), cognitive dulling nowhere as smart as I used life is like a solid 1/10 anyone else have anything like this happen to them?

I'm sorry you're going through this. Have you seen a doctor about this (ik not all doctors are good)? Invega sustenna is supposed to be hydrolyzed a lot faster than this, maybe this is a legit metabolic issue? Or maybe it's psychological/trauma related? At the very least you should try to measure the effects, see if you still have elevated levels in your blood, etc.

 

[soulie]

Sorry to hear that

I'm also damaged by SSRI (Lexapro) which created Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. Akathisia with severe SI, my brains are fried, Anhedonia, constant physical pain (neuropathy) and many more physical, neurological and cognitive symptoms. I had over 100+ symptoms. Most symptoms are bearable at the moment due reinstating but I'm stuck on the poison again. So it's a matter of time something goes wrong again like building up tolerance, prescription or delivery problems etc. Completely housebound and dependent on others.

Same here. Akathisia and countless unbearable symptoms. I'm also completely housebound/ bed bound. Zero quality of life. Just survival all day long. How long have you been like this for?

 

[MissAbyss]

Same here. Akathisia and countless unbearable symptoms. I'm also completely housebound/ bed bound. Zero quality of life. Just survival all day long. How long have you been like this for?

I'm so sorry to hear that

For almost 11 months now. Compared to some others who have or had this for years. I can't even imagine. What about you?

 

[noname223]

Do you still feel positive emotions? Or do you have emotional blunting?

I still have positive emotions. Overall my Regulation of emotions increased a lot since I am taking them. I cried so fucking much because of the inner mental pain without it. It was unbearable.

 

[ifihadnever]

Psycharity and their pills ruined me. I'm nothing now. I'm sorry to hear of your pain.

 

[soulie]

I'm so sorry to hear that

For almost 11 months now. Compared to some others who have or had this for years. I can't even imagine. What about you?

I'm so sorry! Its horrific. I've been sick for 8 years now. 5 years with akathisia.

 

[MissAbyss]

I'm so sorry! Its horrific. I've been sick for 8 years now. 5 years with akathisia.

Oh, thats horrible! I'm so sorry. Eight years, that's unbelievable. Or you on or off meds that caused it? If you like to talk or vent, you can just message me anytime.

 

[Kurwenal]

I had long blamed psychiatry and its overindulgence of prescribing random pills until something 'sticks' as the cause of my problems. I reasoned to myself, that if, two decades ago, as a teen, I hadn't been forced to take meds, I would have grown out of it. I kept telling myself that the meds were the problem, that was why I am like this.

I can't bring myself to do that anymore. Certainly I have certain side effects that, despite no longer taking the associated meds, reduce my quality of life significantly. But I think that if I had never been started on meds, a similar trajectory would have set itself before me. The problem has always been me, not the horrible treatments I was subjected to. Sure, they didn't help. But they aren't the reason I am a failed human.

My family likes to blame my current state on me having weaned off all meds this year. Oddly, each of my past suicide attempts have been undertaken while on some form of cocktail of psychiatric meds. I haven't had a crack this year, or for a few years now, actually. Just got.to work towards it.

 

[RadiantNumber]

I feel them don't causing harm but not helping either

 

[shampoo sniffer]

I don't know. At this point in my life, I've spent more time on them than off them. Been on SSRIs continously since I was 16. I'm 34 now.

I feel like my doctors didn't know how to deal with my case so they just put me on pills and called it a day. If a brand seemed like it stopped working, they would switch me onto another. I'm on duloxetine now, was on citalopram before that, prozac before that, so on and on.....no break in between.

 

[divinemistress36]

God I hate how they put people with treatment resistant depression on antipsychotics . That shit made more suicidal

I don't know. At this point in my life, I've spent more time on them than off them. Been on SSRIs continously since I was 16. I'm 34 now.

I feel like my doctors didn't know how to deal with my case so they just put me on pills and called it a day. If a brand seemed like it stopped working, they would switch me onto another. I'm on duloxetine now, was on citalopram before that, prozac before that, so on and on.....no break in between.

Same . After you been on them your whole life , they are impossible to get off of. So you just take them to not have withdrawls