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- Written by: Jesse G Allen
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Olanzapine which under the brand name is Zyprexa was my first medication. It is an atypical antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It kept paranoid thoughts and delusional thinking away but it's a tough drug for me to take, I gained a ton of weight on it and i was tired all the time on it so it wasn't the right fit for me.
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My first breakdown was a doozy. I was in my early 20s usually the typical age for schizophrenia to appear, I was shy and introverted pretty heavily due to insecurity and anxiety. I was afraid i would be judged by my appearance constantly if i went into public settings so i isolated myself since i got picked on early in school for the size of my nose, back to the breakdown it started in my early 20s and i was reading about jesus and was fasting, basically starving myself, which in turn came intense stomach pain. My mind was racing, i soon started to noticed i was terrified of things metal in the house and electrical outlets. I was cutting electrical cords and turning on and off breakers. I was placing light bulbs in the yard and organizing batteries in a line since i could feel a literal current of air coming from the batteries which was perplexing. My mother came home and was not happy, i was too manic to care. My heart rate was up and my mind racing to the point where i couldn't help it, i didn't want to leave the house so she called the cops, I refused to leave so they tackled me down and i put up a good restraint against them for a moment but eventually they got my hands behind my back and in cuffs. They took me to the hospital. This is where i get my first diagnoses, paranoid schizophrenia. I was hospitilized for a couple of days and the first medication they put me on was zyprexa.