u/Familiar-River-6792

Try it. It changed my life. As an ex invega sustenna usee

I took an antipsychotic for my psychotic episode (still need to talk about it with my priest tomorrow) for 9 months (Invega Sustenna). Stopping it this month via doctors order. What happened is my inner monologue went completely blank and i seem to not be able to say the jesus prayer. i can maybe say it once or teice then my head starts to hurt and i can feel like a certain pressure in my head and i can't keep reciting it. All i can do is just. Observe my thoughts and not engage with them

Has anyone who has taken an antipsychotic here happened to go through the same experience?

I did kundalini from a self help video and developed schizoaffective bipolar. I'm orthododx christian too. Lord have mercy on me a sinner. Pray for me that i recover from this madness and can get off my medication

I take Invega Sustena and it has given me anhedonia l, lack of energy, brain fog, lack of motivation etc... I heard that 9-Me-bc can help. What other nootropics/supplements help?

I'm on invega sustena. I wanna reverse its effects. What supplements can i take?

My story started when i left my home country at 17 years old.
Went to live in Canada. Started smoking weed there. The weed was too strong and i got depressed because i missed my friends and home country. Stayed depressed for a year in canada.
Weed was making it worse and i read up on bipolar disorder. Started having suicidal thoughts so i flew back home to get treated.

At the psychiatrists clinic they had given me a paper with a handful of questions. I had previously known about bipolar disorder so i kinda ticked all those boxes purposefully. At the time i was exhibiting symptomps of unusual agression. Ticked off all the boxes for bipolar disorder. Got diagnosed bipolar 2, put in inpatient for 13 days and put on a cocktail of meds.
They kept changing meds for 2 years. Meds that me worse and actually changed my brain chemistry. One day i took an 800 mg dose of lamictal in one go my usual dose was 150 mg. I wasn't scuicidal i just did it for no reason. Got sent to the ER and put in inpatient hosptital again for 4 days where they changed my meds to horrible ones.

These horrible meds had side effects (Risperdal (risperidone) and Depakine/Depakote(sodium valproate)) i finally decided to quit. Went off them cold turkey and had rebound psychosis. Not sure if it was psychosis though because i don't remember hallucinating or anything. My parents called a private company to come forcablly pick me uo from my house and out me inpatient for 35 days where i was diagnosed schizoaffective bipolar type.

I don't remember telling them that i had hallucinations but i was so drugged up on valium and antipsychotics in there i don't remember a thing. I don't remember hallucinating or hearing boices or having delusions yet the doctors wrote on their notepad that i was hallucinating and such. I asked my parents about it and they told me that i had told the doctors i was hearing voices but i actually was not. I didn't have manic symptomps either do idk how they diagnosed me as being bipolar. This 3rd hosptial was a different one by the way. The 3 hospitals were seperate from each other. So 3 different hospital visits. I came out of there 35 days later. Put on invega sustena(paliperidone palmitate) and depkot/depakine (valproic acid).

1500 mg depkine and 150 mg invega sustena reduced to 75 mg rn.

It's 7 months later. I have no symptomps of this disorder at all. Lost all my energy due to the invega, lack of motivation, anhedonia etc... full dompamine blockage. It sucks. My doc is currently lowering the dosage so that's good but i don't know if he'll let me taper off completely considering the cact that wants to keep earni g money off of me. Also tried to taper earlier but he would keep telling me that we need to reach the 1 year mark before stopping so that the psychosis doesn't come back.

My life currently sucks now, i stay in bed all day on my phone watching netflix and using social media. I used to go the gym twice a day everyday, studied sports at uni, and train mma. I was shredded now i am fat and can't do any of that i lost my dream career cuz of the invega sustena.

My mind is so slow. Back when i was on lamictal and seroquel before my 2 nd hospital visit i was a great athlete. Now my life is fucked. I live with my parents and have no icome of my own. Im 22 and have no job. I am not functional enough to work anymore. I lost everything.

What should i do in this scenario? Any comments would be appreciated.