Being on risperdal for 20 years or more makes you go crazy?

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Hi, I'm 24 and been taking risperdal since I was 4, so for 20 years, for anxiety cause my doctor think benzo pills like klonopin is too addictive. I take 0.75 mg and I've just been feeling a little "off" lately. Idk what it is. I think its this pill. I have been getting paranoid about stuff like neighbours be putting cameras up to watch me. Ik if your on anti-depressants for too long like paxil 4 too long, it stops working and makes anxiety worse n makes u go a little off. Ik this cause it happened to me and my Dr said it was that. I heard a lot, risperdal does the same. Also growing up I was abused and neglected along with my 3 brothers, my little brothers developed PTSD, agoraphobia and depression and my older one developed and an anger disorder and depression, my mom has PTSD, agoraphobia, manic depression, and kind of hypochondriac paranoid delusions or something. I think she has something else because of that and the paranoid stuff I'm think is like my mom thinks. She has woke me up n asked me at 3am if she can call the cops on the neighbors for being drug dealers, rapists and murderers cause the cops told her to stop calling cause she called too many times and she wanted to act like somebody else calling before. Do you think this paranoia I'm suddenly having has something to do with her or the risperdal? I think its the risperdal cause the same thing happened with the paxil. I also think my doctor should have never prescribed risperdal to me at age 4. I was just acting my age and trying to cope with the physical and mental abuse my mom did n so didn't my 3 brothers. She freaked cause she thought we all had something like her and lied a lot to the doctor. This was back in 93-ish so doctors didn't know what they know about risperdal n other meds if they should be giving meds to kids n how it would affect them back then like they do now... What do you guys think?

Anonymous · Answer

There was huge profit motive for drug companies to push brand name antipsychotics onto foster kids and other kids on the Medicaid program in order to sell their stuff for $800 a month. MANY 4 year olds were drugged.  There is much discussion of this on Madinamerica.com, and there is an instruction book on how to taper off. You will have to find a doctor who will help you get off the drug - growing up in a screwed up family is NOT a mental illness. I know these drugs cause brain damage because I got off all of them 3 years ago since they weren't helping anyway, and I am doing a lot better. Not normal, I still have severe depression, but I function better, my behavior is much better, and I can THINK like normal again. I swear I lost 20 IQ points while on these drugs. 

Good luck getting off that stuff. Since you have been on it so long, you will have to taper off it over a VERY VERY long time. Probably over a year. You should have a psychiatrist help you, in case you have set backs. You need to find one who supports you in this effort. People on madinamerica may know of lists of docs willing to do this with you, to make it easier to find one.

Remember, it took me 3 years to mostly recover from the drug effects, and I took the pills for 15 years starting at about age 30, and not always antipsychotics. It may go differently for you. I mean it, good luck.

Anonymous · Answer

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Being on risperdal for 20 years or more makes you go crazy?

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