Posted by SLS on January 10, 2014, at 15:07:57
In reply to what if I'm not so 'crazy,' afterall..., posted by Christ_empowered on January 10, 2014, at 13:43:18
> word on the street (I live in a really small, southern town) is that I'm not schizophrenic...just narcissistic...which is to say, I'm back where I was 7-8 years ago with the Freudian psychobabble.
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> Truth is, the shrinks from back in the day can't control me. They failed to have me committed, they failed to put me on a court order. I guess being free of psychiatric control=not crazy, right? OK.
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> Truth be told, I'd rather not be on an antipsychotic. Trileptal? Who cares, honestly? Keeps agitation at bay, doesn't seem to cause problems. But an antipsychotic, forever and ever? I dunno...
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> ...I meet with a new shrink in a few months. We'll see what's up.
You definitely are not so crazy. You have been the most lucid and stable that I have yet seen you. As tempting as it may be, try not to rock the boat until your next doctor's visit. I hope he's a good one. Saphris and Latuda are worth discussing. Both are antipsychotics with antidepressant properties. I am thinking of trying these drugs to see if I can get off of Abilify. I weigh way too much. The other approach for me is to take metformin to control the weight gain and perhaps stave off diabetes.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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