Psychotropic medication discussion thread
in Psychology & Therapy ·
I was on Risperdal about ten years ago, and honestly, it was a total nightmare. While I was taking it, I fell into this weird headspace—I don't even know how to describe it. It was like constant panic, feeling like I was literally crawling out of my own skin. My thoughts just... froze. I’d try to think about something, and nothing. Just a mental blackout. And even though I was on the smallest dose possible, my psychiatrist kept pushing me to increase it! 😠 After I dropped 12 pounds in a single month, I started having doubts, but I ended up telling her to shove it since she refused to change my meds. I walked away from them and finally felt like myself again. Why she ever put me on it, though? No clue. 🤷 She kept rambling about how I was "hypersensitive" or had "scattered thoughts," so she thought she needed to force me to focus on one thing at a time and slow everything down. I mean, sure, I was going through some serious crap back then—I was pretty much falling apart 😁—but her brilliant conclusion was that Risperdal was exactly what I needed! 🤦 I was taking it alongside Tegretol and some other pill whose name escapes me. Those two on their own were fine, but Risperdal? Absolute killer. 👎