Anti-psychotic meds make people start feeling better -- they think they are "cured" and since the side effects are so TERRIBLE -- they figure they can go off them -- of course as soon as they do -- their brain starts malfunctioning again and then they stop thinking straight. They feel its everyone else that's wrong and they're right.

It's a vicious circle. We went thru it a few times with Robert -- instead of arguing with him I would tell him that I really didnt think he should but I respected his wishes to try going off the meds -- I explained that we simply couldnt take the chance of having the illness take control of him again if he went off the meds at home so he would have to respect our fear of the illness and go back to the crisis center for the first two weeks. It was always enough to keep him from trying it. Usually within the hour he would come back to me and thank me for not letting his stop.

Everything we think or do or feel gets routed through our brain. How terrifying it must be to have no control of those functions !!!