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>been taking meds continuously for 2 years now to control schizo bipolar
>worked by muting my personality, creativity, and motivation
>weight gain, life in a rut, but at least I'm not crazy
>feel symptoms start to make a come back lately
>go to doctor, increase dose
>no changes, symptoms happening again
>ask doctor to increase dose again
>doctor sighs and looks me dead in the eyes and says that the dose I take is already a little higher than the maximum recommended dose and that going any higher will have no therapeutic benefits
>describes to me what tardive psychosis is
>says that over time antipsychotics and mood stabilizers begin to have no effect and the psychosis breaks through
>no well-known way to combat these effects
>tfw my tardive psychosis is worse than my initial disease
>it's basically manic depressive mixed states, psychotic depression
>basically I'm energetically insane and in constant emotion pain
>my soul feels like its on fire
>my doctor apologized to me and said that continuing medication and therapy can help but there is a high likelihood that my symptoms will worsen over time with no known medication to significantly effect the symptoms
you guys told me to take my meds...
