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Hi, I'm wondering if you can have a misdiagnosis that has lasted for the past 7 years? I've been heavily medicated on my script and recently with advice from my psychiatrist I've reduced my meds by a third. Unknown to my psychiatrist though is that for the past week I've reduced it to 1/5 of my original dose as I enjoy being more alert and awake throughout the day. It's for schyzoaffective disorder. I'm still taking my antidepressants as per normal. Any ideas about this as I've had nothing but positive results.
@Alacarte Everyone is different but don’t be worried if you still feel weird for a few months it took me about 6-8 months off antipsychotics to feel like I could actually think again. And a year before I felt normal. Usually if you don’t want to put up with withdrawals then slowly tapering down is best. Everyone responds differently but personally I don’t usually get withdrawal symptoms intensely so I just stopped cold turkey but that is not something I recommend even though it was fine for me.
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