i have 16 years of experience in dealing with psychosis. i've learned one very important thing- going crazy is fine as long as you do it in an appropriate place. let's say you have a schizo rant.

bad things to do:

>1. post it on your FB
>2. post it on your linkedin
>3. talking with your family or friends about it
>4. talking with your doctor about it

good things to do:

>1. talk about it on /x/

this place is full of schizos who think they're the messiah or the cia is tracking them through dental implants or interdimensional shapeshifting reptilians are everywhere. your crazy ass will fit right in. no one gives a shit that you think you're the only one who exists here. but tell that shit to your boss and watch your life get destroyed.

>>40749570 (OP)
This. I'm either schizophrenic or having profound spiritual experiences, but either way, I'd rather keep my mind authentic than go on medication. I've witnessed firsthand the horrors of antipsychotic medication, and it all assumes that schizophrenia isn't just a pathologization of some mental faculty that is inconvenient to the system of modernity. You're absolutely right, though, that telling anybody about this stuff will get your life ruined.

>>40749828
i stopped taking my lithium because it makes me feel flat as fuck. i don't feel any positive emotions on it. now i'm actually enjoying myself for the first time in three years, and i'm not manic, so my doctor was wrong once again

>>40749928
This was my exact experience on lexapro, it honestly worsened my depression. I've felt so much more, both good and bad, than I did on "anti-depressants". I don't know what genius decided to treat depression with medication that makes you even number to emotions, but I can't help but think it's either horrific incompetence or some crypto-eugenicist attempt to drive the depressed to suicide.

>>40749949
i think the idea is that it numbs your bad feelings so you don't mind that it numbs the good feelings. but that's total horseshit. it bothered the fuck out of me all the time.

i'm actually on lexapro and i'm not even sure if fit does anything. but i stopped taking it before and i felt like shit for like a month so i'm staying on it

>>40749949
I was on some meds, not outright schizo, just depression highs and lows. It kinda leveled it out but also killed my mojo big time. Stuff like exercise and breathing techniques, abstinence from social and news media help massively. If you focus on your immediate surroundings, you realize the world is going mad on its own just fine, no need for your participation.

>>40750002
i started walking about 2 /12 hours every day after my traumatic brain injury. made me obsessed with my posture. i think i've pretty much fixed it now- i walk with my shoulders back and down and it straightens out everything else. doesn't take much effort and it makes it easier to breathe. i also do it when i'm sitting at my computer. makes it easier to sit in an uncomfortable chair for long periods of time (like the one i'm sitting in right now, lmao)

anyhoo i think that one postural adjustment does more for me than lexapro or wellbutrin or lithium or risperidone

there's a chance i can get back on adderall. i need it, i can't pay attention for shit. old doc thought it would make me manic even though i was on it for a decade without problems. new doc is more liberal when it comes to prescriptions so fingers crossed