Posted by Lou Pilder on January 18, 2011, at 19:34:43
In reply to can you taper and thrive?, posted by Christ_empowered on January 18, 2011, at 19:12:20
> I've been off meds before--I stopped them suddenly, did OK, then had a period of agitation, parranoia, and psychosis, so I had to not only go back on the medication, I had to go on a higher dose to get the problems under control.
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> Now, I'm wondering...does there come a time when you can safely, slowly taper off your meds? I don't want to waste my life being crazed or end up in a mental institution, but I do wonder if at some point, after maybe a couple years w/o depression, mania, or significant psychosis, I could slowly taper off and live w/o meds and psychiatrists?
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> Any thoughts?C_emp,
You wrote,[...does there come a time when you can safely, slowly taper off...I don't want to waste my life...could live without (drugs) and psychiatrists?...any thoughts?].
There are a lot of people that have withdrawn from psychotropic drugs and have lived from that point on drug-free without a psychiatrist and an abundant life. The question I see here is what happened to those that did that to enable them to overcome addiction and depression and have an abundant life.
Now I see ways for that to happen. One by human achievment and the other by divine accomplishment.
Here is the best part. In my reading of your posts here, you have a head start.
Lou
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