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Coming off medication and finding support

Wynter12

751d

Hello, I just recently got off my medication and can already notice a few differences. I am still trying to distinguish if they are good or bad symptoms or if they are just from being off of the medicine. I always thought I was going through all these feelings and emotions by myself but since meeting my partner I have been able to see that I am not. I have a passion for psychology and helping others and am more than willing to talk and help others out. It is something that I have always done and my field of profession requires the same; why I feel so connected and compelled to help others.

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    • Josephine

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      If you feel the medication is working and you are comfortable I would keep taking them. Your parents don’t know the situation and they aren’t living in your body. If you are happier now than before when you weren’t taking them than you are doing something right.

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    • Josephine

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      If you feel the medication is working and you are comfortable I would keep taking them. Your parents don’t know the situation and they aren’t living in your body. If you are happier now than before when you weren’t taking them than you are doing something right.

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    • punk99

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      If you feel being on medication was helping I’d hope you can stay on medication! I know what it’s like to have push back from family though— that’s hard :((

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      • Wynter12

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        @punk99 it’s extremely hard thank you for caring :(( I ran out of my last dose of medication and I’m trying to figure out if there’s any way I can continue on medication without my parents knowing. I don’t like going behind their back’s especially knowing how strict they are.

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        • Wynter12

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          @Wynter12 If that means I have to wait a while until I move out with my partner and then be on the medication again I will do it.

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    • Storme25

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      Just as long as you do what the doc says it's dangerous going off meds on your own been there done that

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      • Wynter12

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        @Storme25 That part gets a little complicated. I have been on the medicine for two years and my parents thought it was too long for me to keep being on them because I have been doing much better. Both me and the psychiatrist tried to tell them that means the medication is working. They don’t want me to be dependent on it (they are immigrants) and don’t want me to continue to take it. Yes I have been doing well when I was on the medication, did I want to get off of them yes and no. No because I’ve been better than ever, and no because I don’t want them to be the ones to tell me what to do. So I am a little nervous now that it’s only been three days off of them I truly don’t want something terrible to happen.

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        • Storme25

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          @Wynter12 docs know what's best and learned that it only causes relapse

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