Guest Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Hi everyone, Did someone during withdrawal experience psychosis, psychotic thoughts or paranoia? and how did you handle it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callieflower Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Hi. My withdrawal has included bouts of paranoia and mild psychosis (visual hallucinations and feeling out of touch with reality). I’ve been very honest about what I’m seeing and experiencing with 2 people very close to me. Opening up to them and receiving no judgment has been helpful and made these symptoms less scary for me. I’m also a big fan of the benefits of distraction. Putting on the tv with something familiar gives me a short break because I’m no longer focusing on my symptoms. How has the last day been for you? Any improvement? citalopram 20mg 3/2019-8/2020 citalopram 40mg 8/2020-9/2020 fluoxetine 20mg 9/2020-4/2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupa Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/22/2022 at 2:07 AM, Quittingquentiapin said: Hi everyone, Did someone during withdrawal experience psychosis, psychotic thoughts or paranoia? and how did you handle it? In this tech era,judging thoughts and labelling self with paranoia is not a good thing for self. Take good care of yourself while taking one day at a time. Eventually brain heals. Cold turkeyed risperidone (1m.g)and trihexyphenidyl combination drug out of ignorance,In August 2016 after one month use. Withdrawal symptoms settled at dreamful,disturbing sleep. Thus introduced to olanzapine for sleep.Started using olanzapine out of ignorance. Tapering olanzapine 10 m.g from February 2017. May 2018 :Still suffering dreams,Still tapering olanzapine at 0.625.100ml water+2.5 mg olanzapine. June 2018 22.5ml=0.57mg.July 2018 20ml,August 2018-17.5ml,September 2018-15ml,October 2018 10 ml,December 2018 7 ml, BrassMonkey slide method so far at lower doses.2 nd December cold turkeyed , only to reach minure doses as reinstatement to cutshort endless tapering process.4rth December started 1ml. Almost no symptoms and sleep is better,So started 0.5 ml from 17-12-2018. "0"from31-12-18.Re birth happened from 10- 2020,as rejuvenation took whole2019.Completely recovered now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Greatful Posted August 3, 2022 Mentor Share Posted August 3, 2022 Guest How are you doing. I had the worst paranoia winter/spring of 2021. I was a mess from drug hopping, tapering Lamictal and CTing 6 weeks of Seroquel and starting Lexapro. I thought the bird singing could turn into them talking to me, I thought the wind outside might turn into a man voice, I thought peoples eyes could be trying to tell me something. I had unexplainable fear. I kept wanting look around myself to see what I should be afraid of. I still feel a disconnect in my thinking. Slowly my rational brain is returning. I am trying to get off of my drugs. I think they could still be part of the problem. What happened to you? https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/24894-greatful-is-this-withdrawal-or-to-many-med-changes-at-once/ 1995? Prozac, tried several Paxil, Serzone, St John's Wart back to Prozac and Trazodone ct:d Traz Lexapro. Tried to stop Crash in 2015 Kindled Hospitalized, Vybrid, Seroquel, Effexor, Abilify Pristiq, Wellbutrin-- 2016 ended back on Prozac and Lamictal 200mg 5/2020 thru 12/2020 taper from 20mg Prozac down to 3mg. Crashed 12/13/2020 Zoloft 50mg 1/29ct 1/29/2021 Seroquel 50mg ct 2/12/2021 Wellbutrin 75mg. Became hypo manic 2/1 6ct Trazodone 50mg 4/25 25mg 2/5/ 2021 Lamictal 150mg. 2/24 100mg 4/9 75mg 4/21 37.5 2/16/2021 Seroquel 50xr 3/3 100mg 3/17 150mg side effects ct 4/3 2021 Lexapro 5mg 4/14 7.5mg 4/30 10mg 5/10 7.5mg 2021/ 5/16 5mg Lexapro 37.5 Lamictal 25mg trazadone, xanax .0625mg 3x a day Lexapro Taper> Sept/01/2021 4.90mg> Sept/25 4.75mg> Oct/19 4.69mg > Nov/14 4.2mg Jan/30/2022-- Split dosing 2x a day All liquid 4.2mg (2.20mg at 8am & 2mg at 4pm) 2/17 4mg> 2/24 3.8mg slow taper to Aug/12/2022 2.04mg 2023> 2mg, 1.90mg, 1.80mg, 1.70mg, 1.5mg, 1.4mg, 1.3mg 1.2mg, 1.1mg, 1mg, 0.9mg, 0.8mg, 0.7mg 0.65mg, 0.6mg, 0.55mg, 0.5mg, 0.45mg, 0.4mg, 0.35mg, 0.3mg, 0.25,mg, back to once a day dosing 0 .1mg, 0.07mg , 0.05mg 4/1/2024 0 Lamictal taper 4/17/ 2022 25mg, 9/9/ 22 -20mg, 9/25/22- 15mg , 10/20/22- 0 Trazodone..2023.>down to 14mg, 7mg, 6mg July 2023 0 Xanax 0.0625mgai 3 x a day, 2023> 0.042mgai 3x a day 2024=going to straight daily total as I'm taking Xanax 3 times a day, tapering doses can vary throughout my 3 times a day dosing .102mgai> .1mgai> .098mgai> .096mgai> .094mgai> .092mgai > .09mgai > .087mgai > .084mgai >.081mgai > .079mgai > .077mgai Supplements Magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, Omega 3, D/K2 , zinc, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 12:27 PM, Greatful said: Guest How are you doing. I had the worst paranoia winter/spring of 2021. I was a mess from drug hopping, tapering Lamictal and CTing 6 weeks of Seroquel and starting Lexapro. I thought the bird singing could turn into them talking to me, I thought the wind outside might turn into a man voice, I thought peoples eyes could be trying to tell me something. I had unexplainable fear. I kept wanting look around myself to see what I should be afraid of. I still feel a disconnect in my thinking. Slowly my rational brain is returning. I am trying to get off of my drugs. I think they could still be part of the problem. What happened to you? You can read my thread if you like. At the moment I can’t discribe what is happening with me. I struggle a lot. I think I am wa witch sometimes and that I can see through people and that I can change them, or that I belive in telepathy. That I can read peoples minds etc and is exhausting! I feel like a horrible person! All the time. My mind and my soul are gone. I think sometimes that other people had the power over my mind and what I think, and that I became this person. I m not connected with my self. I can’t discribe this better. I like i have no power over what is going on. All my intentions are bad I don’t know. I am not myself anymore. i know that what I am doing is wrong, but I do it anyway. My mind have 10 different stages and it changed in minutes. I do something, and course after that, my mind told me. You did it because of this and that blablabla is horrible this overme who never let me breath or be me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Greatful Posted August 3, 2022 Mentor Share Posted August 3, 2022 Guest I am so sorry that this is happening to you. I am plagued by crazy thought/fears too. It can get so scary and overwhelming. I often tell my husband that I am going to go crazy. These drugs are pretty scary. Sometime it feels like I am super high in a zoned out way but still filled with fear and paranioa. It makes me wonder why people like to get high. I try to control my brain and thoughts but it has a mind of it's own. It believes what it believe and the more I try to out think it the more panicked I get. My husband reassures me that it will get better. It's only been a few month that you ctd the Quetiapine, please find a way to chant to yourself that this is not me and it's the drugs have messed with my brain. I know I know that easier said than done. Sometimes I just break down and sob over the terror of it. Have you ever read the story "What's Happening to Your Brain". Please read it if you haven't. I took some of the panic out of what was happening to me. I was not crazy it was my brain not working right because of what the drugs did to it and now it's trying to find itself. I will hop over to your thread🌞 https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/24894-greatful-is-this-withdrawal-or-to-many-med-changes-at-once/ 1995? Prozac, tried several Paxil, Serzone, St John's Wart back to Prozac and Trazodone ct:d Traz Lexapro. Tried to stop Crash in 2015 Kindled Hospitalized, Vybrid, Seroquel, Effexor, Abilify Pristiq, Wellbutrin-- 2016 ended back on Prozac and Lamictal 200mg 5/2020 thru 12/2020 taper from 20mg Prozac down to 3mg. Crashed 12/13/2020 Zoloft 50mg 1/29ct 1/29/2021 Seroquel 50mg ct 2/12/2021 Wellbutrin 75mg. Became hypo manic 2/1 6ct Trazodone 50mg 4/25 25mg 2/5/ 2021 Lamictal 150mg. 2/24 100mg 4/9 75mg 4/21 37.5 2/16/2021 Seroquel 50xr 3/3 100mg 3/17 150mg side effects ct 4/3 2021 Lexapro 5mg 4/14 7.5mg 4/30 10mg 5/10 7.5mg 2021/ 5/16 5mg Lexapro 37.5 Lamictal 25mg trazadone, xanax .0625mg 3x a day Lexapro Taper> Sept/01/2021 4.90mg> Sept/25 4.75mg> Oct/19 4.69mg > Nov/14 4.2mg Jan/30/2022-- Split dosing 2x a day All liquid 4.2mg (2.20mg at 8am & 2mg at 4pm) 2/17 4mg> 2/24 3.8mg slow taper to Aug/12/2022 2.04mg 2023> 2mg, 1.90mg, 1.80mg, 1.70mg, 1.5mg, 1.4mg, 1.3mg 1.2mg, 1.1mg, 1mg, 0.9mg, 0.8mg, 0.7mg 0.65mg, 0.6mg, 0.55mg, 0.5mg, 0.45mg, 0.4mg, 0.35mg, 0.3mg, 0.25,mg, back to once a day dosing 0 .1mg, 0.07mg , 0.05mg 4/1/2024 0 Lamictal taper 4/17/ 2022 25mg, 9/9/ 22 -20mg, 9/25/22- 15mg , 10/20/22- 0 Trazodone..2023.>down to 14mg, 7mg, 6mg July 2023 0 Xanax 0.0625mgai 3 x a day, 2023> 0.042mgai 3x a day 2024=going to straight daily total as I'm taking Xanax 3 times a day, tapering doses can vary throughout my 3 times a day dosing .102mgai> .1mgai> .098mgai> .096mgai> .094mgai> .092mgai > .09mgai > .087mgai > .084mgai >.081mgai > .079mgai > .077mgai Supplements Magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, Omega 3, D/K2 , zinc, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 1:48 PM, Greatful said: Guest I am so sorry that this is happening to you. I am plagued by crazy thought/fears too. It can get so scary and overwhelming. I often tell my husband that I am going to go crazy. These drugs are pretty scary. Sometime it feels like I am super high in a zoned out way but still filled with fear and paranioa. It makes me wonder why people like to get high. I try to control my brain and thoughts but it has a mind of it's own. It believes what it believe and the more I try to out think it the more panicked I get. My husband reassures me that it will get better. It's only been a few month that you ctd the Quetiapine, please find a way to chant to yourself that this is not me and it's the drugs have messed with my brain. I know I know that easier said than done. Sometimes I just break down and sob over the terror of it. Have you ever read the story "What's Happening to Your Brain". Please read it if you haven't. I took some of the panic out of what was happening to me. I was not crazy it was my brain not working right because of what the drugs did to it and now it's trying to find itself. I will hop over to your thread🌞 Yea I read it. But somehow this doesn’t make it less painful ! I don’t know what to belive anymore. My live is just a mess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Greatful Posted August 4, 2022 Mentor Share Posted August 4, 2022 Guest I know that it doesn't take away the pain and misery, for me it took some of the sting away. Have you seen Baylissa Frederick's website. You might find some encouragement. https://mccare.org/user-guide/ You know who you are,,,If you can stop and look deep inside you will see you, the core you. Your brain is offline right now. Somehow we need to let things be just the way they are, go with the flow. Find a daily mantra that will help you remember that you are okay and that one day you will be you again. Have a few different ones...I am okay. I am safe, My brain is healing, I think baylissa has a list of affirmations http://mccare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/10-Day-Affirmations-Challenge-REV.pdf Your brain is healing every minute of everyday🤗 1 https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/24894-greatful-is-this-withdrawal-or-to-many-med-changes-at-once/ 1995? Prozac, tried several Paxil, Serzone, St John's Wart back to Prozac and Trazodone ct:d Traz Lexapro. Tried to stop Crash in 2015 Kindled Hospitalized, Vybrid, Seroquel, Effexor, Abilify Pristiq, Wellbutrin-- 2016 ended back on Prozac and Lamictal 200mg 5/2020 thru 12/2020 taper from 20mg Prozac down to 3mg. Crashed 12/13/2020 Zoloft 50mg 1/29ct 1/29/2021 Seroquel 50mg ct 2/12/2021 Wellbutrin 75mg. Became hypo manic 2/1 6ct Trazodone 50mg 4/25 25mg 2/5/ 2021 Lamictal 150mg. 2/24 100mg 4/9 75mg 4/21 37.5 2/16/2021 Seroquel 50xr 3/3 100mg 3/17 150mg side effects ct 4/3 2021 Lexapro 5mg 4/14 7.5mg 4/30 10mg 5/10 7.5mg 2021/ 5/16 5mg Lexapro 37.5 Lamictal 25mg trazadone, xanax .0625mg 3x a day Lexapro Taper> Sept/01/2021 4.90mg> Sept/25 4.75mg> Oct/19 4.69mg > Nov/14 4.2mg Jan/30/2022-- Split dosing 2x a day All liquid 4.2mg (2.20mg at 8am & 2mg at 4pm) 2/17 4mg> 2/24 3.8mg slow taper to Aug/12/2022 2.04mg 2023> 2mg, 1.90mg, 1.80mg, 1.70mg, 1.5mg, 1.4mg, 1.3mg 1.2mg, 1.1mg, 1mg, 0.9mg, 0.8mg, 0.7mg 0.65mg, 0.6mg, 0.55mg, 0.5mg, 0.45mg, 0.4mg, 0.35mg, 0.3mg, 0.25,mg, back to once a day dosing 0 .1mg, 0.07mg , 0.05mg 4/1/2024 0 Lamictal taper 4/17/ 2022 25mg, 9/9/ 22 -20mg, 9/25/22- 15mg , 10/20/22- 0 Trazodone..2023.>down to 14mg, 7mg, 6mg July 2023 0 Xanax 0.0625mgai 3 x a day, 2023> 0.042mgai 3x a day 2024=going to straight daily total as I'm taking Xanax 3 times a day, tapering doses can vary throughout my 3 times a day dosing .102mgai> .1mgai> .098mgai> .096mgai> .094mgai> .092mgai > .09mgai > .087mgai > .084mgai >.081mgai > .079mgai > .077mgai Supplements Magnesium glycinate, magnesium citrate, Omega 3, D/K2 , zinc, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 On 8/4/2022 at 11:18 AM, Greatful said: Guest I know that it doesn't take away the pain and misery, for me it took some of the sting away. Have you seen Baylissa Frederick's website. You might find some encouragement. https://mccare.org/user-guide/ You know who you are,,,If you can stop and look deep inside you will see you, the core you. Your brain is offline right now. Somehow we need to let things be just the way they are, go with the flow. Find a daily mantra that will help you remember that you are okay and that one day you will be you again. Have a few different ones...I am okay. I am safe, My brain is healing, I think baylissa has a list of affirmations http://mccare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/10-Day-Affirmations-Challenge-REV.pdf Your brain is healing every minute of everyday🤗 I am not myself this is my trauma self. Try to work fight or flight I think. Everything I thought in the past doesn’t make sense anymore my mind will overthink all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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