Yeah - I've been 'reclassified' as an individual suffering from 'drug psychosis'. Ain't that a kick in the teeth. They even want me off the depo (meds/injection) and want to discharge me from the services!

Fuck me - I knew I was doing well but this is totally shocking the shit out of me because I am going to lose my fat benefits check and need to find work lolz

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start acting crazy again.

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what meds you on? if you don't mind me asking.

I wish it was just an act, debaser, but its a genuine illness.

The meds Im on - I dunno the name - but its an injection that I receive in the butt fortnightly. The general term for them are anti-psychotics...

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i realize it's a genuine illness, a good friend is on anti-psychotics. he's able to maintain it with meds.

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oh yeah. i know what you mean. depixol? have you ever come off it before? i've been around people coming off that. it's not nice. but i'm sure it affects people differently? have you thought about getting a second opinion? or do you feel it's the right way to go?

second opinion/appeal/whatever

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well if it was drug induced psychosis then they are correct in changing your diagnosis. Dont do the drugs and you should - in some ways - be ok.

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ok. questions:

at what point did you start to feel psychotic?
Did you take drugs before or after experiencing psychosis?
when you take drugs do your experiences get worse?
do you take drugs to self-medicate or just for fun?

because if its dual diagnosis (a pre-existing mental illness and then a drug/alcohol use) then its different in a way.

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Well, this is going back some years, but back in the 90's I took a lot of LSD and developed psychosis then. That is when I was diagnosed as schizophrenic.

I have been a regular user of marijuana since I was 15, I only quit marijuana last year after starting to take opiates. Their opinion is that because I've always been using drugs when I relapse then I am suffering from drug psychosis.

That said, my last relapse was caused during withdrawal from opium. I totally could not handle the withdrawal and ended up in a psychiatric ward for several months to recover without any opiate replacement therapy because I never wanted them to know I was using opium at the time.

Then, this was when I was introduced to crack, which led to heroin, and I have been fine since.

I remember one year I took nothing but marijuana, and was fine for a year without the meds. Then after all that things got too much and I relapsed due to various reasons.

So, drugs have helped and hindered my mentality.

Right now I am happy because I have been reclassified - but not at the prospect of losing benefits which I have relied on for several years, almost a decade.

But, every time I stopped the meds - suddenly - I relapsed. And I have never been properly weened off them. But that is happening now, and I feel scared I'll fall ill again because its not a pleasant experience...

What the hell - at least I can be open about my illness without being all like attached to the stigma of other stereotypical schizophrenics = they are like really psycho and hear voices and kill people - I've never heard voices and only get flashbacks from the LSD. I also have delusions when I relapse because I experienced alternate realties on LSD that are so scary and soul destroying they must never come to the front of my mind and they do without meds. The meds ease the delusions and help with the flashbacks but they are also very dangerous medicine to take long term and I have wanted to stop taking the meds for some time now thinking I will be able to cope without them.

It is just that I have only recently accepted that I need the meds and am schizophrenic, now thats totally not true and I need to rethink everything, like, maybe I don't need the meds after all...

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drug induced psychosis all the way then.

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they think your episodes are just triggered when you do drugs?
so they wont help cos you continue doing drugs?
that does make sense

howeva i think drug (induced) psychosis can be longterm
and thats probabaly where youre at
so regardless of how you developed either completely drug induced or pushing a predisposition to the illness to its breaking point
theyre still obligated to hook a nigga up!

i heard my name.

haha.

i fucked a sri lankan with drug induced psychosis. i used to enjoy listening to his stories.

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i smoked 9 roaches yesterday morning and i swear to fucking jesus cunting christ that i have drug induced psychosis now.
i'm meant to be going into detox today (due to alcohol) but still have to ring to see if they have a bed.
i can't fucking breathe properly. maybe i have developed asthma, but i think it's more brain related.
someone seriously needs to lock me up. the place i'm detoxing at isn't locked. i'm gonna call 'em now.

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