Marian Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Im currently in a ward. People are being tempted, pressured and sometimes forced into the use of meds. Also a friend gives her autistic + add daughter Ritalin. If you were me, would you talk to others about the dark sides of meds? How? When someone is a kid or is being pressured especially, i feel like protecting them. But maybe it is none of my business and i cant really judge their situation. 2011-2012 Adjustment disorder with anxiety. Oxazepam, seroquel. 2012 Cold turkeyed both, psychosis 2012 Haldol, ativan 2013-2014 Efexor 2014 Quick taper, psychosis 2014-2016 Bad interaction with antibiotic (fluoroquinolone). On and off haldol many times, cold turkeyed. 2016 Olanzapine 2016-2018 Back to haldol, slow taper without doc 2mg to 0.5mg 2018-2020 0.5mg haldol Nov 2020 Stressrelated psychosis. Begin dec 2020 Ativan 10mg, half dec 0mg. Haldol begin dec 2.5mg. Jan haldol 1mg. Link to post
Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted December 25, 2020 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted December 25, 2020 I am very cautious about who I speak to about the bad side of psychiatric drugs. It depends who it is and how much time I have to explain things to them. Sometimes we don't get very much time to speak to a person so I try to get the key things in, my experience, withdrawal, website name, tapering slowly. So I mention that I have tried to stop my drug too quickly and experienced withdrawal symptoms and found a website called surviving antidepressants and I'm tapering my drug slowly. That way they are more aware that withdrawal symptoms can happen and they know that there is a place on the internet which can help. Other things that you could mention are: do your own research before starting a drug and check side effects, drug interactions and about how to get off the drug I really do try to stress withdrawal because before I had my own experience with it I did not know about it at all. Because I was feeling bad on the drug (before I tried to reduce it) I had been searching for side effects so didn't get any search results for withdrawal. I hope that helps. 1 NEW!!! INTERVIEW with Altostrata, SA's founder NEW!!! Plodding along inch by inch: 12" = 1', 3' = 36 " or 1 yard, 1760 yards = 63,360" or 1 mile Current from 17 Apr 2021: Pristiq 0.2665mg now holding each dose for 3 weeks ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after); Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering Oct 2015 My tapering program My Intro (goes to my tapering graph) My website PLEASE NOTE: I am not a medical professional. I provide information and make suggestions. Link to post
Marian Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 Thanks. That helps a lot. I indeed think withdrawal is important to mention. Even a lot of the nurses here dont seem to (want to) see that. And a lady was telling me she got more depressed than ever after quitting meds, so it was a bad idea to stop. I quickly mentioned withdrawal. She was never told about it. 2011-2012 Adjustment disorder with anxiety. Oxazepam, seroquel. 2012 Cold turkeyed both, psychosis 2012 Haldol, ativan 2013-2014 Efexor 2014 Quick taper, psychosis 2014-2016 Bad interaction with antibiotic (fluoroquinolone). On and off haldol many times, cold turkeyed. 2016 Olanzapine 2016-2018 Back to haldol, slow taper without doc 2mg to 0.5mg 2018-2020 0.5mg haldol Nov 2020 Stressrelated psychosis. Begin dec 2020 Ativan 10mg, half dec 0mg. Haldol begin dec 2.5mg. Jan haldol 1mg. Link to post
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