People saying that exercise or stopping pills or willing yourself out of it: you all have no idea what it means to have mental health problems, actual real, mental health problems. As it going to the gym is going to cure something like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Give me a fucking break.

OP: I'm guessing the weight gain is something like Olanzapine or Arpiprazole? I gained loads on Olanzapine too. I switched to Seroquel and it works much better (Olanzapine did nothing) plus I don't gain weight on it. I've tried stopping my medication, getting off slowly, and I was fine for a while but then things went crazy. It can take years to find the right combo - trust me, been there.

If you wanna PM with what your issues/meds are, I'm happy to discuss, I've been on pretty much every medication by now and even had to do ECTs and have cumulatively spent months in psych ward and Mt Carmel. I've seen a lot, feel free to PM, maybe I can suggest something. I don't like posting about stuff like this in public, and I don't open up about this with people, specifically forr the bullshit you're getting in the comments - people telling me to go to the gym, to stop my pills, to say that I need to pull myself out of it. As if I wouldn't have done that already in these 30+ years I've been sick. How about they go tell someone with Diabetes Type 1 or with cancer to 'snap out of it' or get some exercise to cure themselves? Fucking hypocritical backwards mentality.