My ex was schizoaffective. They thought BP1 for a while, but then she started hallucinating while baseline. Anyway, I've seen her take all the meds. Some work s

My ex was schizoaffective. They thought BP1 for a while, but then she started hallucinating while baseline. Anyway, I've seen her take all the meds. Some work sometimes. Then they don't. Most of the time we'd be dealing with symptoms of the meds, which are not easy. When she was completely manic even the highest dose of some meds would not work for her. Actually a side effect of one of the meds had the same symptoms as schizophrenia, so in that case what was even the point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_sy... Neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome (NIDS) is a psychopathological syndrome that develops in some patients who take high doses of an antipsychotic for an extended time... characterized by the same symptoms that constitute the negative symptoms of schizophrenia You're right, a lot of times it seems like they just wanted to give her a pill and strap her down to a bed. Good sleep was far more important to regulating her wellbeing, but that was very difficult with the side effect of akathisia, which is common of antipsychotics. So it became a matter of upping the dose until it would make her pass out after hours of writhing pain. A daily occurrence. So I could see why taking the meds were difficult. If you told me I could take a pill to cure my autism but it would have the same symptoms as an antipsychotic, no thank you I wouldn't do it.