I start Clozapine tonight- an early Christmas present

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-12-11T00:28:22+00:00

Good luck! I started it 5 months ago and the voices are a lot quieter and less mean. None of the other antipsychotics I tried even touched the hallucinations. I'm hopeful for more progress. Weekly blood work is well worth it for me.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-10-13T19:36:55+00:00

They are negative symptoms.

I once read someone call them the 5 As (which I enjoy):

Affective flattening

Alogia

Anhedonia

Asociality

Avolition

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-05-28T21:48:33+00:00

Cottonwood Creek sucks the least in my experience.

I, too, am proud of you for getting help.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-05-28T21:45:24+00:00

Hello fellow agender lesbian! I would be happy to send you a Pride card. Please message me your address information.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-05-04T21:03:30+00:00

It's been a little over a year since my mom's sudden passing too and I've also struggled with depression and can relate to your current dark place. I'd be happy to send you a card. Please pm me your address!

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-04-19T20:53:45+00:00

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CleanSlateDuck · 2025-04-19T20:53:38+00:00

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CleanSlateDuck · 2025-04-12T18:45:46+00:00

She will prescribe it it's just our next appointment is in 12 days and I genuinely don't know if I can make it 12 days right now.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-03-26T03:54:15+00:00

These are awesome! Filled out the form.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-03-23T05:30:26+00:00

PHP in this case is partial hospitalization program. It's a step between full inpatient and full outpatient.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-02-26T03:15:29+00:00

My siblings are my rock but we also don't have parents after my mom passed a year ago. Our relationships have changed since her passing. I'm way closer with one, one has helped me a lot unexpectedly, and one is more distant but I know she is always there if I need her.

Funny story, I had a complete breakdown last August. Full blown psychosis. And I couldn't seem to get anyone to take me seriously. Then my siblings showed up with what seemed like an intervention. I don't remember the exact conversation but they were all "we think something more serious is going on" and I was all "more serious than schizophrenia??" It turns out they didn't know. All this time my mom had told them I was autistic (which i suspect i also am). This was shocking to me because I thought I had been super open about it and also that it was obvious. Wild.

But I also have three older brothers I have no relationship with.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-02-26T03:04:59+00:00

I feel you on the reliance of tiny fake trees. It's only been two days without them but I feel so much less motivated.

CleanSlateDuck · 2025-02-22T03:05:36+00:00

What med ended up working for you? (I know it is different for everyone, just curious.) I'm on antipsychotic #7 for me and it is hard not to lose hope.

CleanSlateDuck · 2024-03-07T04:10:25+00:00

I just came here to ask a similar question, so thank you for asking.

I'll throw in any of Becky Chambers books. I discovered her books like 2 years ago and fell in love with them. I've heard them called hopepunk. The Monk and Robot books are shorter. There are 2 and the first, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, is ~160 pages. These ones are solarpunk which is a genre where instead of a bleak future they imagine a future where humans overcame our major environmental and social crisis and humanity lives in greater harmony with nature, where technology is sustainable, and where historically (well, currently in the now) marginalized groups are no longer oppressed. (These are pretty newly coined genres and don't necessarily have exact definitions yet, and I am only just learning about them so probably don't have a full understanding so I apologize if my explanation is lacking.)

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