Suddenly stopping meds.

[Mysophobia]

About 2 weeks ago, I had a telephone conversation with my psychiatrist who said she was going to take me off citalopram.
Not being one to wait, I stopped it myself.
I was only on 20mg, and it did nothing for me.

My Mum found out.
She says I have more 'attitude' without it and keeps starting arguments with me, then telling me I'm crazy when I argue back.

Today she has decided that If I won't take citalopram, I don't need treatment at all. She has taken away all my risperidone from me.

I use risperidone as a mood stabilizer, it balances me out, calms me down, helps me sleep, it makes a lot of the bad thoughts go away.

Stopping it so suddenly is going to have some pretty bad effects, right?

I'm already on the brink of doing something stupid.

This is going to push me over the edge.

I don't know what to do.

[Heidi Tiger]

I just googled Risperidone withdrawal to see what it said. The first page gave me a list of 85 possible effects including some pretty severe both physical and psychological ones. If I were you I would print it out and show her the evidence. Or you could ring NHS direct and get their advice. Either way I really think you need to let your mum know that at the least you need to taper the dose and not just stop suddenly, for your physical aswell as mental health.

[Steel Maiden]

In my experience, stopping antipsychotics suddenly gives me physical symptoms (ranging from the shakes to diarrhoea) and psychological symptoms (irritability, mood swings etc). But the one big bag thing is that I end up relapsing and back in hospital when I stop my meds. Each time I stop taking my medication, the relapse is worse than the last one. So I wouldn't advise it.

[sherlock holmes]

How old are you? I'm not sure your mum has any "right" to take prescribed medication away from you. It's not her call if you take it or not.

Can you get to the doctors tomorrow to get another prescription of resperidone if she wont give it back?

[Steel Maiden]

Your Mum is acting very irresponsibly and I suggest you explain to her what could happen if you stop taking them.