Thanks to those of you who've shared stories, has been really nice to see. It's pretty hard to talk about this type of illness. My uncle was diagnosed in his early fifties when he took a big turn for the worse. Medications would turn him into a complete zombie. Without them, he would become paranoid and suicidal.
A few months later he managed to convince the doctor that he didn't like the antipsychotics, and a week or two afterwards took his own life. The things going on in his brain were simply too much. Luckily he was never violent towards anyone else, but at his level of psychosis it could have easily gone the other way.
It's really too bad the antipsychotics are so rough on people. When my uncle was on them it was as though he was alive but not really there. Sad
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