☼ amro1991: Hello Community (Anti psychotic withdrawal)

[LucaDiProspero]

My condition is different like I said in another post...I'm the same of the first WD day: a man whose humanity has been taken away. My ability to feel, to desire, to imagine has gone since that day. I have no headaches,blurred vision, insomnia, tinnitus, slow speech, mood disorders, anxiety, tiredness. My theory is drugs has developed persistent anhedonia (currently I have no other symptoms) and this is the only symptom I had since the 23 november 2014 and that never left me event if for a minute. I start to feel I'm a unique case (ye maybe 1 on one million people), terrible and shocking...

[LucaDiProspero]

I hope some docs will help me eventually

[mammaP]

Hi Amro, I am glad to see that you are improving, thank you for the update. It is helpful and reassuring when people see that recovery is possible. 

 

I am going to add our 'here comes the sun' to your title, to show that you are getting better. 

[amro1991]

My condition is different like I said in another post...I'm the same of the first WD day: a man whose humanity has been taken away. My ability to feel, to desire, to imagine has gone since that day. I have no headaches,blurred vision, insomnia, tinnitus, slow speech, mood disorders, anxiety, tiredness. My theory is drugs has developed persistent anhedonia (currently I have no other symptoms) and this is the only symptom I had since the 23 november 2014 and that never left me event if for a minute. I start to feel I'm a unique case (ye maybe 1 on one million people), terrible and shocking...

 

Luca don't worry too much trust me I had the same feeling that you had for at least 7 months after quitting the meds. It takes a long time to start feeling like there is hope. I still have anhedonia and cannot feel any eurphoria from smoking or drinking like I used to but at least I don't feel so bad when I do them and have negative thoughts.

 

 

Hi Amro, I am glad to see that you are improving, thank you for the update. It is helpful and reassuring when people see that recovery is possible. 

 

I am going to add our 'here comes the sun' to your title, to show that you are getting better. 

 

Thank you Mamma,

I have been improving and I believe it is good to recognize that better than negative reinforcement. I hope I will one day share a complete success story and until then I will update my progress to try and give hope to those that believe this is a lifetime issue.

[Malf]

Hi Amro,

 

I'd like to share with you that I have recovered from anti-psychotic withdrawal which started in November. I've been following everyone's updates and thanks for being so positive because it helps when your going through a bad time. Your description of your symptoms echoed mine completely, especially the overwhelming sense of despair upon waking up, and the waves etc.

 

I started taking half a handful of dry roasted peanuts a day and have reintroduced fish into my diet, which I never previously ate because it gives me diarrhoea.

 

After a period of doing this I started to feel normal again. It might take longer for some than others.

 

Schizor got better from his withdrawal due to magnesium and fish oil. I read an article that says antipschotic withdrawal causes magnesium depletion in the brain, adn there might be some omega three involvement too.

[Altostrata]

Hello, Malf. Please start an Introductions topic for yourself so we can follow your progress. Good to hear you're feeling well.

[amro1991]

I have not written on here for a while but I think it may be time for an update. I have been improving slightly over the past months and I just reached my 10 month mark. My general mood has become better and I have become much less suicidal and sad all the time like I were on meds and for at least 6 months after quitting. Speaking of symptoms that still linger with me I can say that there is still a slight brain fog and slowness in my thought process. I wonder if this will ever go away. I can come up with ideas and thoughts but I am not as witty as I was in the past. My anhedonia emotions have definitely started showing progress but it has not been improving at the rate that I want to. The only problem though that when attacks makes me very uncomfortable is the akathisia and agitation sensation. It is a very distressing side effect and really it is all that reminds that I still need to recover. I hope anyone who has had this lets me know if they have recovered from it.

 

 

I cannot predict whether I will recover completely or when that could possibly happen, but I like to share with those in my situation that things get better very slowly and gradually and that all those suicidal and sad thoughts that hit you are part of the chemicals that have entered your body and the withdrawal and not who you really are. You are happier but it is masked and once that goes away you will start feeling better hopefully soon!

[spokety]

On 7/4/2015 at 9:46 PM, amro1991 said:

I have not written on here for a while but I think it may be time for an update. I have been improving slightly over the past months and I just reached my 10 month mark. My general mood has become better and I have become much less suicidal and sad all the time like I were on meds and for at least 6 months after quitting. Speaking of symptoms that still linger with me I can say that there is still a slight brain fog and slowness in my thought process. I wonder if this will ever go away. I can come up with ideas and thoughts but I am not as witty as I was in the past. My anhedonia emotions have definitely started showing progress but it has not been improving at the rate that I want to. The only problem though that when attacks makes me very uncomfortable is the akathisia and agitation sensation. It is a very distressing side effect and really it is all that reminds that I still need to recover. I hope anyone who has had this lets me know if they have recovered from it.

 

 

I cannot predict whether I will recover completely or when that could possibly happen, but I like to share with those in my situation that things get better very slowly and gradually and that all those suicidal and sad thoughts that hit you are part of the chemicals that have entered your body and the withdrawal and not who you really are. You are happier but it is masked and once that goes away you will start feeling better hopefully soon!

Hey man how are you doing now?

[vaibhav]

@amro1991 Hi....What is your progress now....have you recovered completely from it as it has been 5 years.....If you do, please share your success story..