It all started with suspicion? Then there was grandeour? I am the king of the world? I have several wives with whom I communicate from TV and movies. The technology is transferred in the world basically from me because I am the king of the world. Everything is my technology. Because I am king and very few people knows this, I look after my own security. Some times Mafia chases me, some times there is a federal security. Doctor said it could be Schizophrenia. I started taking medicines. One fine day, i realized that what i am thinking is all nonsense and I lost my daytoday common intelligence. Took medicines for some more time. I am a pharmacists, realised lot of side-effects, stopped the medicine one fine day. Every thing was fine for next 6 months. After that the same repeated. All the while I was thinking I was taking medicines for depression. I have problem with a girl before that. I was under suspicioun that she will ditch her boy friend and come to me one day. I came back to my old grandeur. My parents started treating me without my knowledge with risperidone 1 mg day. The medicine was not given continuously. However, all of a sudden I again became normal and came back to the reality from the grandeur. Now immediately i ran to my psychiatrist and he now told me that could be schizophrenia. I dont trust because my day to day professional life has not been affected all these days. On contrary, I am more than average successful in my profession. I have a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences and I do research and teach in a college. Since being a pharmacist, even today I donot believe that I am suffering from schizophrenia because it is not affecting my professional life. However, I took medicine for the past 6 months (respiridal 1 mg) continuously. I again want to stop the medicines because the drug is again showing it sever side-effects. My suspcious nature was started when I was 29 years old and the grandeur started when I was 31 years old. I am now 37. I underwent lot of stress during 27 years (rejection of my proposal by a girl) and financial problems our family faced. Being the eldest son I took some responsibility. Now again i stopped the medicine. I donot have any grandeur or any delusional thoughts and thus I decided to stop medicine. However, the suspicious thoughts are severe. What should I do? Am I suffering from Schizophrenia? (I have doubts about this). I still think that I am suffering from some kind of psychosis which has developed because of the stress I underwent from 27 to 31 years of my age. I dont think that I am suffering from schizophrenia. Dear, can I stop taking the medicines (respiridal)? can I still have the suscpicious nature and cope up with it on day to day basis? Please suggest me. I am afraid of the side effects of the medicine.
Q: Do I have schizophrenia? Can I stop medicines now?
Hello Danny,
Carolyn is right your post is rambling and I don't get the sense from what you wrote that you can go without medication. I have schizophrenia and a Masters degree and work at a professional job as well. However there's one difference: I'm well aware that if I stopped taking the meds, I'd be on Skid Row.
Skid Row isn't the kind of life I want to lead.
The answer is clear to me: work with your psychiatrist to find the best drug that will alleviate your symptoms so that you can maintain your life and your lifestyle. It may be a process of trial-and-error before you find the right drug or combination of drugs.
Stopping medication isn't an option.
There's no shame in having schizophrenia:
Attorneys, psychiatrists, CEOs, the list goes on and on of people with schizophrenia who are doing great things.
Regards,
Christina
"suffering from some kind of psychosis which has developed because of the stress I underwent from 27 to 31 years" Danny boy, schizophrenia IS a type of psychosis that may develop partially due to stress. You say you are a pharmacist, but from what I can tell, a doctor did not prescribe the risperidone for you -- did you prescribe it for yourself? Don't let your intellectual knowledge of pharmaceuticals and medical diagnoses substitute for regular care and treatment (as well as diagnosis) by a psychiatrist.
A lot of people with schizophrenia do not understand that they are sick and need medication on an ongoing basis. You reveal in your post that you relapse after stopping the risperidone. So why do you ask if you can stop taking it again? You would almost surely relapse again...and again...if you cannot be convinced that you do have a mental illness and must take the meds in order to keep your life together. By that, your job as a pharmacist might be at risk if you relapse again. Your commitments to your family would doubtless suffer.
In fact, your post was so rambling and disarticulated that I think you are showing signs of relapse even as we are writing to each other. Go back to your psychiatrist, tell him or her exactly what has happened in the past and what is happening right now. Be honest about your desire to stop taking medication and your fear of side effects.
Best wishes to you,
Carolyn
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Danny, I looked back over your post and see you have seen a doctor in the past and probably that doctor started you on risperidone. To read your post and make sense of it is very difficult. Go back to your doctor, as I advised before.
Carolyn