Why do crazy people feel the need to stop taking their crazy meds?!


Question: Just something I've noticed...


Answers: Just something I've noticed...

might this just be because they are hmmm.............. CRAZY?

this is common because your medication makes you feel better and you think you dont have any mental issues anymore. but, its the drugs that are helping, and in most cases, people go back to being "crazy" once the dosage has cleared their system.

Denial

its such a wild ride!!!

because they think they are not crazy.. which is even more crazy.. sometimes their meds make them feel weird - they do not understand without their meds the people around then think they are weird..

Because so-called 'crazy' people are sovereign human beings who have the right to decide whether they will take medicine. And they do not like being called 'crazy'. Would you like being called 'judgemental'?

usually for two reasons. because the medication helps their symptoms, they feel better, and go off their medications, because they feel better, and do not realize it is the medication doing it. they also go off their medication because some have unwanted side effects.

The side effects.
Some drugs make you really dopey and some make you gain enormous amounts of weight.
I'm taking Pexeva for depression and I have to take Benztropine to calm down the shakiness I get fronm the Pexeva. It doesn't take all of it away, but I just try to ignore it. If I complain my psychiatrist will probably raise my dosage.

From everyone who is on the "crazy" meds You are such a rude insensitive jerk. You would not use the N word here, using the "C" word is just as bad. We are not crazy, we have mental disorders. Calling us crazy is such a put down, there are so many of us that have low self-esteem problems that calling us crazy could seriously affect our self image and our mood. Please from now on try to be more sensitive. Thank you

Thanks Dad, well said, I have a few things to call this jerk

It not as simple as that. Mentally ill people want to be and feel normal. It is hard to admit and surrender to the fact that you have to take medicine for the rest of your life to even function and fit into society. Think about it how many people must take medicine just to feel real. Society doesn't much accept this and places a heavy burden on those who are mentally ill making it even harder for the mentally ill to feel real. Thinking people to be crazy is somewhat ignorant. The reason I feel this is because we don't ridicule people with diabetes who do not protect their disease by maintain proper diet and taking their meds or force them to check sugar levels. Diabetes and mental illness are comparable in that light. What makes it different and makes diabetics more acceptable and fit into societies mold is education. People need shed their assumptions of the mentally ill. They need to educate themselves about all kinds of mental illness and what these people can accomplish, maybe when that happens they will not be so ashamed of having to be on meds for mental stability and we can grow in our humanness breaking that stigma and taboo, becoming a much more compassionate and functional society. Also please note I used diabetes as just one example out of several.

Why do insensitive people call other's names???? I'm just saying that certain people might make judgments about people who post such questions. People are not crazy they are mentally ill and there for sometimes have trouble understanding the nature of their illness or what it will take to keep them feeling well.

You seem to have struck a nerve with some crazies on this one. Call it what you will...depression, anxiety, schizo...I just refer to these people as "nuts"....some are truly nuttier than a squirrel turd.





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