So I’m 21 and though an adult, still live with my parents. I’m on the autistic spectrum and was also diagnosed with mild psychosis by a psychiatrist. For many months, I was put on the anti-psyhotic Abilify because it help me manage me suicidal symptoms and I was able to interact with people normally when volunteering at a shop this summer. When I ran out and tried to get it refilled, my dad saw the script on the table, asked for any pills I had and demanded I throw them away as he said he didn’t believe in medication for mental issues.
He doesn’t understand that mental ailments can just be as debilitating as physical ones. I talked to my psychiatrist and he said he could give me an intravenous anti-psychotic which my parents that lasts one month and my parents wouldn’t know but it would cost €20.
So cheap, yet so far out of reach for me. It’s a catch-22 I’m in, I need the cash to get the medicine to work but without the medicine, I can’t get cash. Feel like giving up.
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I tried that, although I am neither psychotic or autistic, the only effect of the medicine (intravenous) it dumbed me down very much and it made me feel very empty inside, the after effects are, still to this day 4 or so years later, I still can’t feel any emotion. The medicine also made me gain 15 pounds a shot and I took three monthly shots, so I gained 50 pounds in 3-4 months.
I could get it refilled, but unfortunately, I don’t have the €14 needed….can’t wait to get a job.
Ugh I hate that, reminds me of my dad ,sorry
And yes Meds do do wonders, they help A LOT I take some right now 🙂 My doctor wont give me more!