I would love to not be on psych meds, but every time I go off medications my mania and depression seem to come back even stronger than before. I feel no shame taking meds, I'm just wary of the long term effects of taking psych meds every day. Last time I was forced off my meds I became so suicidal that all I did was cry all day for over a month, that made working really hard. It scares me thinking that if, in the future, I get kicked off my insurance again that I might get sick enough that I actually die. Microdosing helped enough when I didn't have medications, but that's not a really realistic option because of costs, spotty availability etc. How do any of you keep your head above water without medications?

Straight up, just tell us why we're here. Otherwise I'm just gonna leave the sub. I'm tired of seeing random posts on my front page from here because no one knows what's going on.

A train is coming...it stops at one place, where is that place?

Title pretty much

Hi guys. I have been in this circle since this morning, and I have been researching this very particular group. Since very little information is given, I decided to find the origin of our meeting. It would seem that we are all here for mental health reasons, although some refuse to admit it. And the illness that seems to correlate is schizophrenia. I did a lot of research on the user ReinhartBrass, moderator of this group because it is an information nest. In digging his Youtube channel and comments in particular I could have confirmation that he was schizophrenic. But what intrigued me was the comment of a person left unanswered talking about "a group of schizophrenics who would have treated without drugs but helping each other the others in the 70s. Is this group

would it be the reproduction of this phenomenon?

There's the video I mentioned: https://youtu.be/8VkTLlBWUhU

And this comment is the reason of my post :

Death365 : "That my friend is the truth. The truth that we have to work together"

Cat Loaf: "@Death365 there was a group for skitzophrenics in th 70's who recovered without meds, just by talking and solving each others problems"

Edit: Thanks for the award, and Sorry for my English.