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Unhappy Dec 08, 2018 at 10:39 AM
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My story is that seven years ago I was a top sales person in my company. I was able to effectively communicate with people and persuade them logically and emotionally into my way of thinking. I also networked a lot and met new people, my communication skills were superb. One day I thought about how i daydream a lot and thought I’d see my doctor about it, it wasn’t really a huge problem but sometimes I would procrastinate on things just to daydream. I went to him and told him and he thought it would be a good idea for me to see a psychiatrist. I go to the psychiatrist and tell her I daydream a lot she asks me how I feel while I daydream I tell her it depends how I feel but I can be happy or sad depending on what I’m daydreaming about. She asks do you hear things? See things? Believe people are watching you? Believe you can read peoples minds? Etc I answer no to all of them and tell her I just say daydream. She says okay and tells me to take this drug called risperidal that should help with it.

I’ve now been on it for several years and my verbal communication skills have been destroyed. It’s so bad that I got fired from my sales job four years ago because I couldn’t communicate properly and my sales dropped dramatically. I now work as a meat stocker at Walmart, my life has been decimated and even another employee came up to me and asked if I have acute mental retardation because other workers are talking behind my back saying I do. I want to get off this drug but I think the damage is done I’m not sure if my communication skills will ever come back or if I’m doomed to be like this.

I hope no one else experiences this. If any of you have come off an anti psychotic and returned to normal I’d like to hear about it.
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I've not had this experience myself. But I thought I would just leave a brief reply letting you know I read your post. I seem to recall having been put on risperadal at one point way back probably 20 years ago or so when I first became involved with the mental health services system where I live. However I didn't stay on it (or any other med they put me on) long enough for it to become a problem. I'm sorry you had such a devastating experience. Hopefully coming here to PC is of some comfort & support.
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I was on risperdal for a brief time. It gave me a severe panic attack which I’d never had before. Stoppped taking it immediately and pdoc said throw it all away. Last year I tried Latuda with more panic attacks and other weird side effects. These are powerful drugs . When having a tough time coming off latuda, idiot practitioner increased my tegretol to the point that I started to have cognitive problems:couldn’t finish sentences. Eg, word loss. I have a masters degree and an excellent vocabulary.I had told her I didn’t want to change anything, but i was in terrible shape so she did.
Am I bitter? Oh yeah. Go off the stuff gradually and never go near a shrink again. You’ll be fine!

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hi. my story is a little bit...complicated. i started with an estimated 120 IQ. once the tranquilizers/antipsychotics hit the scene...oh man. it was party over. I had tardive dyskinesia by age 20.

im in my 30s now. im slowly tapering off Abilify. i was on it, then off, then on again. lots of psychosocial stuff. my approach has been Orthomolecular...massive doses of antioxidants and vitamins, -with- the tranquilizer. and..

i dont have the tardive dyskinesia or the stiff gait ("thorazine shuffle"). Oddly enough, my IQ estimate is now around 130something (as if they'll give me an exact number), which kind of raises questions about why it was estimated at 120 to start with and also...is psychiatry destructive ********? I really don't know, just asking.

i want off, this time for good. my experience with it now aren't terrible, but...really, i want out of the mental health industry, too. they seem to be hell bent on destroying people.

sorry about your situation, i really am. my faith helped me thru, which may not be something many people want to hear, but...its true, for me.

i do think the vitamins help -a lot-, and its mostly standard vitamins (b complex, c, e, etc.) that one can get anywhere (except try to get natural form E, not stuff from most drugstores).

ok. again, I'm sorry, I really am.
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!!!!!! What a TERRIBLE story!!! Why anybody should put you on anything just because you daydream makes me want to blow my top!!! Some of the greatest works of art have come from daydreams.

Have you tried researching Risperadal on the Net? There may be a wealth of information out there both from things like the Physicians Desk Reference and the experiences of others who have taken it. Sounds like you're especially interested in long-term effects.

As for me, after balking for the first five decades of my life I finally decided to try Prozac and though I still dream of going off it, it has literally worked miracles for me.

Wishing you all the best. Let us know how it develops.
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