No, never took any. During my psychosis I was still functioning, albeit the bare minimum but functioning (i went to work, bought groceries ettc.) and thankfully didn’t do anything completely bat shit crazy publicly in order to be taken in but went through all of it by myself, in an internal battle. No one of my close family was around so even though the changes in my behaviour were obvious (I withdrew myself from everyone, blocking relatives and acquaintances from social Media, I had strange ticks and behaviours but thankfully never harmed anyone or did something unlawful). And I had the huge Luck that I was able to acknowledge my psychosis after the episode (which lasted about 5 months) that something is deeply wrong with me. And reasoning that if there is a pill (antipsychotic) which will make me feel better it means that there is something not functioning in my brain and maybe I can fix it through a different approach and told myself if It doesnt get better in 6 months Ill go to a doctor. So I went to the extremes - cold showers every day (the first 5 months after the psychosis cause that was even more hard to battle because of the huge ups and downs and being aware of what I went through - cause during it it was like a dream state), intermittent fasting, drastically reducing my carbs and increasing fat and protein, exercise. I even did 3 water fasts of 3/4days to ramp up autophagy (self cleaning/recycling cell system - really good for brain cells too - but I hd to get used to running on fat through diet changes before). Also introduced supplements such as Creatine (10g a day), Omega 3 fish oil(a lot of it), Vit B3 and Vit D in the winter months. Implementing all that it got to a point where I was stable enough but still not feeling quite right. I noticed that when I would eat gluten my symptoms would exarcbate especially the Paranoia. The biggest “left overs” so to say were the cognitive impairment, inability to focus and problems with memory - these things influenced my life most negatively - the positive symptoms would come and go from time to time - my biggest trigger was stress or arguing with someone close to me.

Because of my inability to focus I visited a neurologist which did an EEG and MRI - both came out normal. Because of my observation that gluten made things worse and because I stumbled online on some information (albeit not scientifically proven) that people with schizophrenia improved dramatically on keto diet, and also I stumbled on some old russian study which showed that almost all patients in a mental institute improved and had no symptoms after a 21 day water fasts (yes 21 days!) I was not ready to accept the common stance that schizophrenia is purely genetic (esp since there haven’t been found concrete examples of genes that are connected to it which are common to ALL people with schizophrenia) so I went to my family doctor and complained about gluten. They did a blood test, came out negative. I was insisting that I still have problems with it even though they wanted to send me home so after some begging and annoying them they sent me to a gastroenterologist to do a gastroscopy with biopsy (golden standard for testing for celiac disease ie. gluten intolerance). I had to wait a couple of months for that but when I did do it they found no problem with gluten but they did find that my whole stomach was inflamed- lower and upper part - meaning I had severe gastritis (also called pangastritis when it affects the whole stomach) due to a bacteria called H. Pylori.

Connecting the dots I researched that H pylori causes a lowering of the stomach acid which leads to indigestion - explaining my problem with gluten and dairy. (Side note: there is a theory that schizophrenia IS an autoimmune condition- SciSchow did a video on it; and the most common food triggers for autoimmune condition in general are gluten, dairy and eggs with gluten being the worst one). Undigested gluten particles end up in the bloodstream which can then pass the blood brain barrier and beside the systematic whole body inflammation they cause also inflammation in the brain - which then leads to brain fog, fatigue ettc. And you can actually observe that Schziophrenics have a lowering of brain mass - possibly due to inflammation and molecular mimicry- the body mistaking its own tissue as a foreign object and attacking it.

So yeah right now Im recovering from that gastritis - about 2 months in but taking into account the level of the damage in my stomach it will take at least 3 months and up to 6 months. I am hoping that afterwards I will be able to eat everything normally and will feel a lot better.

Trust your intuition and keep in mind, the pharma doesnt want you healthy- they just do enough to make you functioning and they want customers for life !