psychological and Mental Health
why do alot of bipolar/ schizophrenia people dont want to take medication?
Question : why do alot of bipolar/ schizophrenia people dont want to take medication?
If it makes them better why dont bipolar or schizophrenia. i know it sounds ignorant but i just want to know. it seems to be more common. because apparently alot of homeless people have these problems but refuse treatment.
bipolar schizophrenia
Best answer:
Answer by Homer J Marley
side effects.
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#2 written by Cassie T 1 year ago
Well, I’m bipolar. And I can tell you exactly why.
Mania feels like you have reached nirvana.
You may be destroying your life, you may be losing your sanity, but for just a little while, you feel like maybe you have really figured out life.
I’m also a writer, and I write very well when I am going through a mood episode. Creativity runs strong in people with mental illnesses like depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia.
Also, medications don’t always make you feel better. For a lot of people, they make you feel nothing at all. A lot of people feel like “zombies” who aren’t really living life. This is a sign that they aren’t on the right medication, but most doctors don’t care about that – as long as they aren’t causing problems, doctors don’t care how you feel.
That’s basically why.
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#3 written by Allie 1 year ago
When you are on medication for those things it really changes your personality. I am bipolar and if I skip a medication day then I usually feel really good but then the day after that it hits really hard. It’s hard to understand even why I do it but it just seems like I could be happy without taking drugs but when i get off them I realize that I won’t be okay
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#4 written by Someone<3 1 year ago
I think schizophrenics refuse treatment more than bipolars. The main reason is the side effects. Anti-psychotic meds cause SEVERE drowsiness and most times alot of weight gain. They can also cause muscle problems that make your tongue roll back or face twitch, even seizures.There are lots of other side effects too. Sometimes scizophrenics feel lonely without the voices and miss their “friends” and don’t want to get better. Also the medications don’t always work. Sometimes they have no positive side effects. The ill person still has his mental symptoms and now plus all the side effects. Sometimes the person who is ill is so delusional they are convince they are not sick and that what they’re expiriencing is real and therefor refuse treatment. Sometimes the person is so ill he can’t remember to take his pills everyday or keep appointments.
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#5 written by missy a 1 year ago
I work in the mental health field….alot of people who have theses illnesses do not believe they are sick…unless they get the proper help (like department of mental health) or counseling . As far as homeless people…alot of places refuse to help them due to them not having health insurance or a income…Its very sad and I wish someone could help them more
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#7 written by Dene A 1 year ago
My brother has schizophrenia and refuses to get help, he actually has run and refuses to get any treatment. Now mind you he was diagnosed at or around 20 something and it’s just become worse as he’s gotten older he’s 38 now. It’s sad because my mother feels as if she’s lost a child and feels so incredibly helpless and mad at the system for their lack of concern and commitment to this growing problem.
Take Care OK.
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#8 written by stasie 1 year ago
These mental illnesses really mess up a person’s perception of themselves and the world around them. The person with the illness truly believes that what they think and feel are valid and real (even if it is warped by the illness). This illness is their reality and many people don’t know anything different, maybe they have never actually been well. When people do become medicated, and even when the medication works without a lot of side effects (this is not always the case), they begin to feel better and it’s almost like they can “forget” what it felt like when they were ill. After a period of time of feeling well, they start to doubt that they actually had the illness. Often people with these disorders will go off of meds. It becomes a vicious cycle of suffering, feeling better and then not believing then off of the meds again…
I think it is also difficult for people to accept their own limitations and to recognise that they may not be able to cope with the same types of lifestyles as “typical” people. It’s like people with these illnesses are in a constant battle with themselves.
I hope this perspective helps you.
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#9 written by sfru 1 year ago
A lot of medication noncompliance among schizophrenia patients is due to a symptom of their disease called anosognosia where the patient is literally unware or lacking any insight to the fact that they have a mental illness. If you think you’re fine, then you won’t want to take medication.
Those suffering from bipolar disorder have periods of manic highs when they feel better than ever, and then a crash into a manic low when they are monumentally depressed. Medication prescribed for bipolar like lithium or seroquel evens the individual out until they have no lows or highs. It is the absence of the manic high that brings the bipolar patient to medication noncompliance. Many bipolar patients describe their high as being a time of high productivity, a time when they do their best work, feel happiest, and have the best interactions. Medication takes that away.
Other reasons for noncompliance:
Bad doctor-patient relationship
Denial
Medication side effects
Delusional beliefs, confusion, disorganization
Fear of becoming medication-dependant or addicted, or threats to masculinity
Loss of feeling or importance -
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The very nature of their diseases make them stop taking their medication…especially if the medications were never taken long enough for a positive result to show up. This is especially true of schizophrenia, since the disease itself can cause paranoid hallucinations that make the sufferers feel as if the medications are actually harming them. If there are no overly concerned friends or family members willing to overlook their medication…then these patients often do end up being shunned and homeless.