What does an anti-psychotic do?

[Jimjam]

are you able to visit a GP to get a general health check up done, including bloods and urine?

That could be helpful for identifying all sorts of gaps, including in nutrition and general health. If this isn't possible, perhaps a pharmacy would be able to check your blood pressure?

In fairness to your therapist, while generally more exercise and healthy nutrition tend to be good advice, therapists may not be the best professional to discuss medication - they are not a medical doctor nor psychiatrist? Perhaps it would be best to discuss side effects with the prescriber? Or is that who refered you to the neurologist-psychiatrist?

That all said, have you challenged your therapist that their reaction to you was a bit standoffish or unempathetic / invalidating when you've shared this feeling / belief / thought that your medicine may be causing your problems? What kind of approach your therapist incorporates? Person centred? Psychodynamic? Is this representative of how they generally work with you or other clients? How are the sessions funded and what is their motivation to help you?

[SorenVC]

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are you able to visit a GP to get a general health check up done, including bloods and urine?

That could be helpful for identifying all sorts of gaps, including in nutrition and general health. If this isn't possible, perhaps a pharmacy would be able to check your blood pressure?

In fairness to your therapist, while generally more exercise and healthy nutrition tend to be good advice, therapists may not be the best professional to discuss medication - they are not a medical doctor nor psychiatrist? Perhaps it would be best to discuss side effects with the prescriber? Or is that who refered you to the neurologist-psychiatrist?

That all said, have you challenged your therapist that their reaction to you was a bit standoffish or unempathetic / invalidating when you've shared this feeling / belief / thought that your medicine may be causing your problems? What kind of approach your therapist incorporates? Person centred? Psychodynamic? Is this representative of how they generally work with you or other clients? How are the sessions funded and what is their motivation to help you?

I checked on google my therapist is a specialist for psychiatry and psychotherapy (in German "Fachärztin für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie"). She is prescribing me the pills since I was released from being in a mental hospital for 4 months when I was 16. I told her I had a constant headache on 7.5 mg on Olanzapine and that my sleep felt weird. I woke up and felt like I didn't sleep. But she said I can't get headaches from Olanzapine, it does not do that and I asked her if I should be on this medication for life - she said yes.

Regardless I asked her to prescribe me 5 mg and she did and I felt better for 2 or 3 weeks but yesterday I woke up with a headache again that lasted all day. I admit I'm just staying in my apartment all day. I don't like to go outside that much. Maybe it's that. Lack of connection or lack of sunlight.

I will ask her on 16th September next week if she can reduce it to 2.5 mg. I will try that dosage and see if anything's better. I hope she will let me do that and prescribe me this dosage though and trust me. If I will feel worse I can just take two pills so it be 5 mg again, right?

I made an appointment a month ago to a neurologist-psychiatrist about the headaches. I will have to wait until late November for that though... But on this Olanzapine medication I just feel random headaches. I don't know why I keep having them and some days it lasts for the entire day...