Positive Post - My voices

[not_so_insig]

A while ago I agreed (along with my psych and cpn) to try an increased dose of medication. I can't remember the exact date but according to my r/v I was on it in September 2015. It worked well that I only heard voices for approximately twenty minutes a day, in the morning. The only exception was that if I got stressed then they would increase but even then it wasn't 24/7.

Idk why but it has decreased since the beginning of the year to fifteen minutes a day. I haven't changed much since this time last year except for going to bed an hour early. In fact I have had extra stress in January; firstly my depot was 2 weeks late; my cpn continued to be off sick and my replacement nurse went on holiday leaving me with no support from the cmht and a complete stranger doing my depot.

I am not cured of schizophrenia as I suffer from other aspects of the disease such as paranoia and delusions around foreign people. I saw my psych in December and he said that he didn't want to change my medication.

[tamobhuuta]

I'm glad the voices have decreased. How do you feel about not changing your meds?

[not_so_insig]

I actually am quite happy tamobhuuta. I think that the current medication is the best that I have been on and I gain very little on my current dose so I don't want to change it for fear of rocking the boat. I am not on the maximum dose. I don't go to bed early but I am guessing that if I went to bed at a reasonable time that my voices would decrease further.

[tamobhuuta]

That's really positive. Could you try going to bed earlier?

[not_so_insig]

I am trying but I find that if I go to bed early then I wake up in the night. Whereas going to bed late I sleep through the night. I am going earlier compared to this time last year.